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$ cp /etc/conky/conky.conf ~/.conkyrc | $ cp /etc/conky/conky.conf ~/.conkyrc | ||
Best is to use a local {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} config. | Best is to use a local {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} config. | ||
− | As many apps, conky will first try to look for a local {{ic|.conkyrc}} file. If this one doesn't | + | As many apps, conky will first try to look for a local {{ic|.conkyrc}} file. If this one doesn't exist, then it will read the default one in {{ic|/etc/conky}}. |
In case you store your configuration locally, e.g. in your home directory, you will not be able to read any log files unless you do some changes. One of the nice features of conky is to pipe to your desktop some {{ic|/var/log/}} files to read all kinds of log messages. Most of these files can only be read by {{ic|root}}, and you will thus need to {{ic|sudo}} conky. Starting conky as {{ic|root}} is not recommended, so you will need to make this following changes: | In case you store your configuration locally, e.g. in your home directory, you will not be able to read any log files unless you do some changes. One of the nice features of conky is to pipe to your desktop some {{ic|/var/log/}} files to read all kinds of log messages. Most of these files can only be read by {{ic|root}}, and you will thus need to {{ic|sudo}} conky. Starting conky as {{ic|root}} is not recommended, so you will need to make this following changes: | ||
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You add {{ic|username}} to the {{ic|log group}}. Now {{ic|username}} can read log files, and you will be able to redirect log messages with conky on your desktop. | You add {{ic|username}} to the {{ic|log group}}. Now {{ic|username}} can read log files, and you will be able to redirect log messages with conky on your desktop. | ||
− | * If conky does not accept changes -- e.g. minimum_size -- you made to {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} make sure you cleared {{ic|/etc/conky/conky.conf}} or commented out the relevant section | + | * If conky does not accept changes -- e.g. minimum_size -- you made to {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} make sure you cleared {{ic|/etc/conky/conky.conf}} or commented out the relevant section.Best is to remove files in {{ic|/etc/conky/}}, as conky will keep reading them and this can give you some Xorg error messages. |
==AUR packages== | ==AUR packages== | ||
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This variable will fork Conky to your background. | This variable will fork Conky to your background. | ||
If you want to make your window always visible on your desktop, sticky across all workspaces and not showing in your taskbar, add these arguments: | If you want to make your window always visible on your desktop, sticky across all workspaces and not showing in your taskbar, add these arguments: | ||
− | + | own_window yes | |
− | + | own_window_type override | |
The override option makes your window out of control of your window manager. | The override option makes your window out of control of your window manager. | ||
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The alignment option is trivial, and gap_X option is the distance, in pixels, from the left border of your screen. | The alignment option is trivial, and gap_X option is the distance, in pixels, from the left border of your screen. | ||
+ | ===Do not minimize on Show Desktop=== | ||
+ | '''Using Compiz:''' If the 'Show Desktop' button or key-binding minimizes Conky along with all other windows, start the Compiz configuration settings manager, go to "General Options" and uncheck the "Hide Skip Taskbar Windows" option. | ||
− | === | + | If you do not use Compiz, try editing {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} and adding/changing the following line: |
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+ | own_window_type override | ||
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+ | ===Integrate with Gnome 3+=== | ||
+ | Some have experienced problems with Conky showing up under Gnome 3. | ||
+ | *Add these lines to {{ic|~/.conkyrc}}: | ||
+ | own_window yes | ||
+ | own_window_type conky | ||
+ | own_window_transparent yes | ||
+ | own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager | ||
===Integrate with KDesktop=== | ===Integrate with KDesktop=== | ||
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For KDE4 | For KDE4 | ||
${exec feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc | tail --lines=1 | sed 's/wallpaper=//'`"} | ${exec feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc | tail --lines=1 | sed 's/wallpaper=//'`"} | ||
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+ | ===Integrate with Razor-qt=== | ||
+ | With Conky's default configuration, its window might disappear from the desktop when you click on the latter. | ||
+ | Here's how to configure Conky to stick on your Razor-qt desktop: | ||
+ | *Add these lines to: | ||
+ | {{hc|~/.conkyrc|own_window yes | ||
+ | own_window_class Conky | ||
+ | own_window_type normal | ||
+ | own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager | ||
+ | own_window_transparent yes | ||
+ | }} | ||
===Display package update information=== | ===Display package update information=== | ||
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Conky has the ability to display RSS feeds natively without the need for an outside script to run and output into Conky. For example, to display the titles of the ten most recent Planet Arch updates and refresh the feed every minute, you would put this into your {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} in the TEXT section: | Conky has the ability to display RSS feeds natively without the need for an outside script to run and output into Conky. For example, to display the titles of the ten most recent Planet Arch updates and refresh the feed every minute, you would put this into your {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} in the TEXT section: | ||
− | ${rss | + | ${rss https://planet.archlinux.org/rss20.xml 1 item_titles 10 } |
If you want to display Arch Forum rss feed, add this line: | If you want to display Arch Forum rss feed, add this line: | ||
${rss https://bbs.archlinux.org/extern.php?action=feed&type=rss 1 item_titles 4} | ${rss https://bbs.archlinux.org/extern.php?action=feed&type=rss 1 item_titles 4} | ||
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===Display number of new emails (Gmail)=== | ===Display number of new emails (Gmail)=== | ||
Create a file named {{ic|gmail.py}} in a convenient location (this example uses {{ic|~/.scripts/}}) with the following [[Python]] code: | Create a file named {{ic|gmail.py}} in a convenient location (this example uses {{ic|~/.scripts/}}) with the following [[Python]] code: | ||
− | import | + | #!/usr/bin/env python |
− | + | ||
− | + | from urllib.request import FancyURLopener | |
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− | + | username = 'username' | |
− | + | password = 'superlongandhardpassword' | |
− | + | ||
− | + | url = 'https://%s:%s@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' % (username, password) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | opener = FancyURLopener() | |
− | + | page = opener.open(url) | |
− | + | ||
− | print( | + | contents = page.read().decode('utf-8') |
+ | |||
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+ | ifrom = contents.index('<fullcount>') + 11 | ||
+ | ito = contents.index('</fullcount>') | ||
+ | |||
+ | unread = contents[ifrom:ito] | ||
+ | |||
+ | print(unread) | ||
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as suggested [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130608 here]. A similar change can be made if using a Google App mail account (below). | as suggested [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130608 here]. A similar change can be made if using a Google App mail account (below). | ||
You can also use Python's urllib as follows. | You can also use Python's urllib as follows. | ||
import urllib.request | import urllib.request | ||
+ | from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree | ||
# Enter your username and password below within quotes below, in place of ****. | # Enter your username and password below within quotes below, in place of ****. | ||
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gmail = 'https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom' | gmail = 'https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom' | ||
− | + | NS = '{http://purl.org/atom/ns#}' | |
− | + | with urllib.request.urlopen(gmail) as source: | |
− | + | tree = etree.parse(source) | |
− | + | fullcount = tree.find(NS + 'fullcount').text | |
− | print( | + | print(fullcount + ' new') |
Add the following string to your {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} in order the check your Gmail account for new email every five minutes (300 seconds) and display: | Add the following string to your {{ic|~/.conkyrc}} in order the check your Gmail account for new email every five minutes (300 seconds) and display: | ||
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[[http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3153/imageffj.jpg Screen shot]] | [[http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3153/imageffj.jpg Screen shot]] | ||
− | [[https://github.com/graysky2/configs/raw/master/dotfiles/.conkyrc Here]] it is - modify to fit your system. | + | [[https://github.com/graysky2/configs/raw/master/dotfiles/.conkyrc Here]] it is - modify to fit your system. Optimized for a quad core chip w/ several hdds (although one of them is not connected for this screenshot) and an nvidia graphics card. You can easily modify this to a dual or single core system with one or whatever number of hdds. |
==A sample rings script with nvidia support:== | ==A sample rings script with nvidia support:== | ||
{{bc|1= | {{bc|1= | ||
− | + | # -- Conky settings -- # | |
− | + | background no | |
− | + | update_interval 1 | |
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+ | cpu_avg_samples 2 | ||
+ | net_avg_samples 2 | ||
+ | |||
+ | override_utf8_locale yes | ||
+ | |||
+ | double_buffer yes | ||
+ | no_buffers yes | ||
+ | |||
+ | text_buffer_size 2048 | ||
+ | imlib_cache_size 0 | ||
+ | |||
+ | # -- Window specifications -- # | ||
+ | |||
+ | own_window yes | ||
+ | own_window_type normal | ||
+ | own_window_transparent yes | ||
+ | own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below | ||
+ | |||
+ | border_inner_margin 0 | ||
+ | border_outer_margin 0 | ||
+ | |||
+ | minimum_size 320 800 | ||
+ | maximum_width 320 | ||
+ | |||
+ | alignment bottom_right | ||
+ | gap_x 0 | ||
+ | gap_y 0 | ||
+ | |||
+ | # -- Graphics settings -- # | ||
+ | draw_shades no | ||
+ | draw_outline no | ||
+ | draw_borders no | ||
+ | draw_graph_borders yes | ||
+ | |||
+ | # -- Text settings -- # | ||
+ | use_xft yes | ||
+ | xftfont MaiandraGD:size=24 | ||
+ | xftalpha 0.4 | ||
+ | |||
+ | uppercase no | ||
+ | |||
+ | default_color 888888 | ||
+ | |||
+ | # -- Lua Load -- # | ||
+ | lua_load ~/conky/lua/lua.lua | ||
+ | lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats | ||
+ | |||
+ | TEXT | ||
+ | ${alignr}${voffset 53}${goto 90}${font MaiandraGD:size=11}${time %A, %d %B %Y} | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ${voffset 5}${goto 164}${font MaiandraGD:size=16}${time %H:%M} | ||
+ | |||
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+ | ${voffset -40}${goto 100}${font MaiandraGD:size=9}Kernel:${offset 70}Uptime: | ||
+ | ${goto 90}${font MaiandraGD:size=9}$kernel${offset 40}$uptime | ||
+ | ${voffset 57}${goto 117}${font snap:size=8}${cpu cpu0}% | ||
+ | ${goto 117}${cpu cpu1}% | ||
+ | ${goto 117}CPU | ||
+ | ${voffset 19}${goto 145}${memperc}% | ||
+ | ${goto 145}$swapperc% | ||
+ | ${goto 145}MEM | ||
+ | ${voffset 25}${goto 170}${nvidia gpufreq} | ||
+ | ${goto 170}${nvidia memfreq} | ||
+ | ${goto 170}GPU | ||
+ | ${voffset 27}${goto 198}${totaldown ppp0} | ||
+ | ${goto 198}${totalup ppp0} | ||
+ | ${goto 205}NET | ||
+ | ${voffset 21} | ||
+ | ${goto 222}${fs_used /home} | ||
+ | ${goto 230}DISK | ||
}} | }} | ||
+ | |||
*And the required lua.lua script: | *And the required lua.lua script: | ||
{{bc|1= | {{bc|1= | ||
− | + | --[[ | |
− | + | Ring Meters by londonali1010 (2009) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | This script draws percentage meters as rings. It is fully customisable; all options are described in the script. | |
− | + | ||
− | + | IMPORTANT: if you are using the 'cpu' function, it will cause a segmentation fault if it tries to draw a ring straight away. The if statement on line 145 uses a delay to make sure that this does not happen. It calculates the length of the delay by the number of updates since Conky started. Generally, a value of 5s is long enough, so if you update Conky every 1s, use update_num > 5 in that if statement (the default). If you only update Conky every 2s, you should change it to update_num > 3; conversely if you update Conky every 0.5s, you should use update_num > 10. ALSO, if you change your Conky, is it best to use "killall conky; conky" to update it, otherwise the update_num will not be reset and you will get an error. | |
− | + | ||
− | + | To call this script in Conky, use the following (assuming that you save this script to ~/scripts/rings.lua): | |
− | + | lua_load ~/scripts/rings-v1.2.1.lua | |
− | + | lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats | |
− | + | ||
− | + | Changelog: | |
− | + | + v1.2.1 -- Fixed minor bug that caused script to crash if conky_parse() returns a nil value (20.10.2009) | |
− | + | + v1.2 -- Added option for the ending angle of the rings (07.10.2009) | |
− | + | + v1.1 -- Added options for the starting angle of the rings, and added the "max" variable, to allow for variables that output a numerical value rather than a percentage (29.09.2009) | |
− | + | + v1.0 -- Original release (28.09.2009) | |
− | + | ]] | |
− | + | ||
− | + | settings_table = { | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | -- Edit this table to customise your rings. | |
− | + | -- You can create more rings simply by adding more elements to settings_table. | |
− | + | -- "name" is the type of stat to display; you can choose from 'cpu', 'memperc', 'fs_used_perc', 'battery_used_perc'. | |
− | + | name='time', | |
− | + | -- "arg" is the argument to the stat type, e.g. if in Conky you would write ${cpu cpu0}, 'cpu0' would be the argument. If you would not use an argument in the Conky variable, use ''. | |
− | + | arg='%I.%M', | |
− | + | -- "max" is the maximum value of the ring. If the Conky variable outputs a percentage, use 100. | |
− | + | max=12, | |
− | + | -- "bg_colour" is the colour of the base ring. | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | -- "bg_alpha" is the alpha value of the base ring. | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | -- "fg_colour" is the colour of the indicator part of the ring. | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | -- "fg_alpha" is the alpha value of the indicator part of the ring. | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | -- "x" and "y" are the x and y coordinates of the centre of the ring, relative to the top left corner of the Conky window. | |
− | + | x=191, y=145, | |
− | + | -- "radius" is the radius of the ring. | |
− | + | radius=32, | |
− | + | -- "thickness" is the thickness of the ring, centred around the radius. | |
− | + | thickness=4, | |
− | + | -- "start_angle" is the starting angle of the ring, in degrees, clockwise from top. Value can be either positive or negative. | |
− | + | start_angle=0, | |
− | + | -- "end_angle" is the ending angle of the ring, in degrees, clockwise from top. Value can be either positive or negative, but must be larger (e.g. more clockwise) than start_angle. | |
− | + | end_angle=360 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='time', | |
− | + | arg='%M.%S', | |
− | + | max=60, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=191, y=145, | |
− | + | radius=37, | |
− | + | thickness=4, | |
− | + | start_angle=0, | |
− | + | end_angle=360 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='time', | |
− | + | arg='%S', | |
− | + | max=60, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=191, y=145, | |
− | + | radius=42, | |
− | + | thickness=4, | |
− | + | start_angle=0, | |
− | + | end_angle=360 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='cpu', | |
− | + | arg='cpu0', | |
− | + | max=100, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=140, y=300, | |
− | + | radius=26, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='cpu', | |
− | + | arg='cpu1', | |
− | + | max=100, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=140, y=300, | |
− | + | radius=20, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='memperc', | |
− | + | arg='', | |
− | + | max=100, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=170, y=350, | |
− | + | radius=26, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='swapperc', | |
− | + | arg='', | |
− | + | max=100, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=170, y=350, | |
− | + | radius=20, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='time', | |
− | + | arg='%d', | |
− | + | max=31, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=191, y=145, | |
− | + | radius=50, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-140, | |
− | + | end_angle=-30 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='time', | |
− | + | arg='%m', | |
− | + | max=12, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=191, y=145, | |
− | + | radius=50, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=30, | |
− | + | end_angle=140 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | -- { | |
− | + | -- name='fs_used_perc', | |
− | + | -- arg='/', | |
− | + | -- max=100, | |
− | + | -- bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | -- bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | -- fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | -- fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | -- x=260, y=503, | |
− | + | -- radius=26, | |
− | + | -- thickness=5, | |
− | + | -- start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | -- end_angle=180 | |
− | + | -- }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='fs_used_perc', | |
− | + | arg='/home', | |
− | + | max=100, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=260, y=503, | |
− | + | radius=20, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='totalup', | |
− | + | arg='ppp0', | |
− | + | max=2, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=230, y=452, | |
− | + | radius=20, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='totaldown', | |
− | + | arg='ppp0', | |
− | + | max=2, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=230, y=452, | |
− | + | radius=26, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='nvidia', | |
− | + | arg='gpufreq', | |
− | + | max=475, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=200, y=401, | |
− | + | radius=26, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | { | |
− | + | name='nvidia', | |
− | + | arg='memfreq', | |
− | + | max=700, | |
− | + | bg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | bg_alpha=0.3, | |
− | + | fg_colour=0x888888, | |
− | + | fg_alpha=0.5, | |
− | + | x=200, y=401, | |
− | + | radius=20, | |
− | + | thickness=5, | |
− | + | start_angle=-90, | |
− | + | end_angle=180 | |
− | + | }, | |
− | + | } | |
− | + | ||
− | + | require 'cairo' | |
− | + | ||
− | + | function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour,alpha) | |
− | + | return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha | |
− | + | end | |
− | + | ||
− | + | function draw_ring(cr,t,pt) | |
− | + | local w,h=conky_window.width,conky_window.height | |
− | + | ||
− | + | local xc,yc,ring_r,ring_w,sa,ea=pt['x'],pt['y'],pt['radius'],pt['thickness'],pt['start_angle'],pt['end_angle'] | |
− | + | local bgc, bga, fgc, fga=pt['bg_colour'], pt['bg_alpha'], pt['fg_colour'], pt['fg_alpha'] | |
− | + | ||
− | + | local angle_0=sa*(2*math.pi/360)-math.pi/2 | |
− | + | local angle_f=ea*(2*math.pi/360)-math.pi/2 | |
− | + | local t_arc=t*(angle_f-angle_0) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | -- Draw background ring | |
− | + | ||
− | + | cairo_arc(cr,xc,yc,ring_r,angle_0,angle_f) | |
− | + | cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(bgc,bga)) | |
− | + | cairo_set_line_width(cr,ring_w) | |
− | + | cairo_stroke(cr) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | -- Draw indicator ring | |
− | + | ||
− | + | cairo_arc(cr,xc,yc,ring_r,angle_0,angle_0+t_arc) | |
− | + | cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(fgc,fga)) | |
− | + | cairo_stroke(cr) | |
− | + | end | |
− | + | ||
− | + | function conky_ring_stats() | |
− | + | local function setup_rings(cr,pt) | |
− | + | local str='' | |
− | + | local value=0 | |
− | + | ||
− | + | str=string.format('${%s %s}',pt['name'],pt['arg']) | |
− | + | str=conky_parse(str) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | value=tonumber(str) | |
− | + | if value == nil then value = 0 end | |
− | + | pct=value/pt['max'] | |
− | + | ||
− | + | draw_ring(cr,pct,p<nowiki><nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>'''Bold text'''</nowiki>t) | |
− | + | end | |
− | + | ||
− | + | if conky_window==nil then return end | |
− | + | local cs=cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display,conky_window.drawable,conky_window.visual, conky_window.width,conky_w indow.height) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | local cr=cairo_create(cs) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | local updates=conky_parse('${updates}') | |
− | + | update_num=tonumber(updates) | |
− | + | ||
− | + | if update_num>5 then | |
− | + | for i in pairs(settings_table) do | |
− | + | setup_rings(cr,settings_table[i]) | |
− | + | end | |
− | + | end | |
− | + | end | |
− | |||
}} | }} | ||
+ | |||
== A note about symbolic fonts == | == A note about symbolic fonts == | ||
Many of the more decorated .conkyrc's use the fonts PizzaDude Bullets and Pie Charts for Maps. They are available from the AUR as 'ttf-pizzadude-bullets' and 'ttf-piechartsformaps' respectively, or they can be found and downloaded with a quick search and manually installed using the instructions in [[Fonts]]. | Many of the more decorated .conkyrc's use the fonts PizzaDude Bullets and Pie Charts for Maps. They are available from the AUR as 'ttf-pizzadude-bullets' and 'ttf-piechartsformaps' respectively, or they can be found and downloaded with a quick search and manually installed using the instructions in [[Fonts]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Fonts appear smaller than they should == | ||
+ | If you notice that your conky fonts appear smaller than they should, or they don't align properly, it could be caused by a default setting in the infinality freetype2 patch. This setting can cause some programs to display fonts at 72 DPI instead of 96 even if the rest of your system is set to 96. If you notice a problem open {{ic|/etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf}} search for the section on DPI and change 72 to 96. | ||
== Universal method to enable true transparency == | == Universal method to enable true transparency == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
− | *[ | + | *[https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39906 Conky Configs on arch forums] |
*[http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Official website] | *[http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Official website] | ||
*[http://freshmeat.net/projects/conky/ Conky] on [[wikipedia:Freshmeat|Freshmeat]] | *[http://freshmeat.net/projects/conky/ Conky] on [[wikipedia:Freshmeat|Freshmeat]] |
Revision as of 13:11, 15 March 2013
zh-CN:Conky Conky is a system monitor software for the X Window System. It is available for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. It is free software released under the terms of the GPL license. Conky is able to monitor many system variables including CPU, memory, swap, disk space, temperature, top, upload, download, system messages, and much more. It is extremely configurable, however, the configuration can be a little hard to understand. Conky is a fork of torsmo.
Contents
- 1 Installation and configuration
- 2 AUR packages
- 3 Tips and tricks
- 3.1 Enable real transparency in KDE4 and XFCE4
- 3.2 Autostart with xfce4
- 3.3 Prevent flickering
- 3.4 Custom colors
- 3.5 Dual Screen
- 3.6 Do not minimize on Show Desktop
- 3.7 Integrate with Gnome 3+
- 3.8 Integrate with KDesktop
- 3.9 Integrate with Razor-qt
- 3.10 Display package update information
- 3.11 Display weather forecast
- 3.12 Display RSS feeds
- 3.13 Display Distrowatch Arch Linux ranking
- 3.14 Display rTorrent stats
- 3.15 Display number of new emails (Gmail)
- 3.16 Display new emails (IMAP + SSL)
- 4 User-contributed configuration examples
- 5 A sample rings script with nvidia support:
- 6 A note about symbolic fonts
- 7 Fonts appear smaller than they should
- 8 Universal method to enable true transparency
- 9 External links
Installation and configuration
- Install the conky package which is available in the official repositories.
- Edit the
~/.conkyrc
config file using an example configuration file from homeproject-screenshot
When editing your config file, you will see immediately the effect of any change as soon as you save it. There is no need to log out/log in your X session. So best is to test all kind of options, one by one, save the configuration file and see the change on your conky window, and correct if your change is unappropriated.
- Alternatively, you can use the default config at
/etc/conky/conky.conf
:
$ cp /etc/conky/conky.conf ~/.conkyrc
Best is to use a local ~/.conkyrc
config.
As many apps, conky will first try to look for a local .conkyrc
file. If this one doesn't exist, then it will read the default one in /etc/conky
.
In case you store your configuration locally, e.g. in your home directory, you will not be able to read any log files unless you do some changes. One of the nice features of conky is to pipe to your desktop some /var/log/
files to read all kinds of log messages. Most of these files can only be read by root
, and you will thus need to sudo
conky. Starting conky as root
is not recommended, so you will need to make this following changes:
$ usermod -aG log username
You add username
to the log group
. Now username
can read log files, and you will be able to redirect log messages with conky on your desktop.
- If conky does not accept changes -- e.g. minimum_size -- you made to
~/.conkyrc
make sure you cleared/etc/conky/conky.conf
or commented out the relevant section.Best is to remove files in/etc/conky/
, as conky will keep reading them and this can give you some Xorg error messages.
AUR packages
In addition to the basic conky package in the official repositories, there are various AUR packages available with extra compile options enabled.
- Install conky-cliAUR for conky without X11 dependencies
- Install conky-nvidiaAUR for nvidia support.
- Install conky-luaAUR for lua support.
- Install conky-lua-nvAUR for both lua and nvidia support.
Tips and tricks
Enable real transparency in KDE4 and XFCE4
Since version 1.8.0, Conky suppports real transparency. To enable it add this line to ~/.conkyrc
:
own_window_transparent yes
The above option is not desired with the OWN_WINDOW_ARGB_VISUAL yes
option.
This replaces the feh method described below.
Autostart with xfce4
In .conkyrc
file:
background yes
This variable will fork Conky to your background. If you want to make your window always visible on your desktop, sticky across all workspaces and not showing in your taskbar, add these arguments:
own_window yes own_window_type override
The override option makes your window out of control of your window manager.
Add a ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop
:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=0.9.4 Type=Application Name=conky Comment= Exec=conky -d StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false
Prevent flickering
Conky needs Double Buffer Extension (DBE) support from the X server to prevent flickering because it cannot update the window fast enough without it. It can be enabled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
with Load "dbe"
line in Section "Module"
. The xorg.conf file has been replaced (1.8.x patch upwards) by /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
which contains the particular configuration files. DBE is loaded automatically.
To verify:
$ grep dbe /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Output (should be similar):
[ 3286.101] (II) LoadModule: "dbe" [ 3286.101] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so [ 3286.111] (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
To enable double-buffer check to have in ~/.conkyrc
:
# Place below the other options, not below TEXT or XY double_buffer yes
Custom colors
Aside the classic preset colors (white, black, yellow...), you can set your own custom color using the color name code. To determine the code of a color, use a color selector app. The basic gcolor2 package in the official repositories will give you the color name. It is made of a series of letters and numbers. Add this line in your configuration file for a custom color:
color1 Colorname1 color2 Colorname2
Then, when editing the TEXT section, use custom color number previously defined.
Dual Screen
When using a dual screen configuration, you will need to play with two options to place your conky window. Let's say you are running a 1680X1050 pixels resolution, and you want the window on middle top of your left monitor, you will use this:
alignment top_left gap_X 840
The alignment option is trivial, and gap_X option is the distance, in pixels, from the left border of your screen.
Do not minimize on Show Desktop
Using Compiz: If the 'Show Desktop' button or key-binding minimizes Conky along with all other windows, start the Compiz configuration settings manager, go to "General Options" and uncheck the "Hide Skip Taskbar Windows" option.
If you do not use Compiz, try editing ~/.conkyrc
and adding/changing the following line:
own_window_type override
Integrate with Gnome 3+
Some have experienced problems with Conky showing up under Gnome 3.
- Add these lines to
~/.conkyrc
:
own_window yes own_window_type conky own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
Integrate with KDesktop
Conky with screenshot configuration generate problems with icons visualization. So there are some steps to follow.
- Add these lines to
~/.conkyrc
:
own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
- If this setting is on, comment it out or delete the line:
minimum_size
- To automatically start Conky, create this symlink:
$ ln -s /usr/bin/conky ~/.kde/share/autostart/conkylink
For KDE4 users:
$ ln -s /usr/bin/conky ~/.kde4/Autostart/conkylink
- Install the feh package which is available in the official repositories.
- Make a script to allow transparency with the desktop
For KDE3 users
$ nano -w ~/.kde/share/autostart/fehconky
#!/bin/bash feh --bg-scale `dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`
For KDE4 users
$ nano -w ~/.kde4/Autostart/fehconky
#!/bin/bash feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc | tail --lines=1 | sed 's/wallpaper=//'`"
use --bg-center
if you use a centered wallpaper.
- Make it executable
$ chmod +x ~/.kde/share/autostart/fehconky
KDE4
$ chmod +x ~/.kde4/Autostart/fehconky
- Instead of using a script, you can add the corresponding line to the bottom of
~/.conkyrc
For KDE3
${exec feh --bg-scale `dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`}
For KDE4
${exec feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc | tail --lines=1 | sed 's/wallpaper=//'`"}
Integrate with Razor-qt
With Conky's default configuration, its window might disappear from the desktop when you click on the latter. Here's how to configure Conky to stick on your Razor-qt desktop:
- Add these lines to:
~/.conkyrc
own_window yes own_window_class Conky own_window_type normal own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager own_window_transparent yes
Display package update information
- Paconky - Displays package update information in a user-defined format. The output of this program can be included in Conky with the
${execpi}
command. - Scrolling Notifications - Prints scrolling update notifications. From the author of Paconky.
- Perl Script - Simpler and earlier script from the author of Paconky. Prints only the number of packages needing an update.
- Python Script - Fairly configurable update notification program in Python.
- Bash Script - Bash script for users that have enabled ShowSize.
Display weather forecast
See this thread.
Display RSS feeds
Conky has the ability to display RSS feeds natively without the need for an outside script to run and output into Conky. For example, to display the titles of the ten most recent Planet Arch updates and refresh the feed every minute, you would put this into your ~/.conkyrc
in the TEXT section:
${rss https://planet.archlinux.org/rss20.xml 1 item_titles 10 }
If you want to display Arch Forum rss feed, add this line:
${rss https://bbs.archlinux.org/extern.php?action=feed&type=rss 1 item_titles 4}
where 1 is in minutes the refresh interval (15 mn is default),4 the number of items you wish to show.
Display Distrowatch Arch Linux ranking
See this thread.
Display rTorrent stats
See this thread.
Display number of new emails (Gmail)
Create a file named gmail.py
in a convenient location (this example uses ~/.scripts/
) with the following Python code:
#!/usr/bin/env python from urllib.request import FancyURLopener username = 'username' password = 'superlongandhardpassword' url = 'https://%s:%s@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' % (username, password) opener = FancyURLopener() page = opener.open(url) contents = page.read().decode('utf-8') ifrom = contents.index('<fullcount>') + 11 ito = contents.index('</fullcount>') unread = contents[ifrom:ito] print(unread)
as suggested here. A similar change can be made if using a Google App mail account (below).
You can also use Python's urllib as follows.
import urllib.request from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree # Enter your username and password below within quotes below, in place of ****. # Set up authentication for gmail auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler() auth_handler.add_password(realm='New mail feed', uri='https://mail.google.com/', user= '****', passwd= '****') opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler) # ...and install it globally so it can be used with urlopen. urllib.request.install_opener(opener) gmail = 'https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom' NS = '{http://purl.org/atom/ns#}' with urllib.request.urlopen(gmail) as source: tree = etree.parse(source) fullcount = tree.find(NS + 'fullcount').text print(fullcount + ' new')
Add the following string to your ~/.conkyrc
in order the check your Gmail account for new email every five minutes (300 seconds) and display:
${execpi 300 python ~/.scripts/gmail.py}
Other Methods
The same way, but with using grep
and sed
for filtering output of wget
:
$ wget -q -O - https://mail.google.com/a/domain/feed/atom \ > --http-user=login@domain \ > --http-password=password \ > --no-check-certificate | \ > grep fullcount | sed 's/<[^0-9]*>//g'
instead of words login, domain, password you must type yours data.
Alternatively, you can use stunnel which is provided by the stunnel package.
The following configuration is taken from Conky's FAQ
Modify /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
as follows, and then start the stunnel
daemon:
# Service-level configuration for TLS server [imap] client = yes accept = 143 connect = imap.gmail.com:143 protocol = imap sslVersion = TLSv1 # Service-level configuration for SSL server [imaps] client = yes accept = 993 connect = imap.gmail.com:993
The only thing left is our ~/.conkyrc
:
imap localhost username * -i 120 -p 993 TEXT Inbox: ${imap_unseen}/${imap_messages}
Here I used * as the password for Conky to ask for it at start, but you do not have to do it.
Google Apps
The above Python script did not work for me and my Google Apps account. I modified the script below to work with a Google App mail account Python code:
import os #Enter your domain, username and password below within double quotes # eg. domain="yourdomain.com", username="username" and password="password" domain="yourdomain.com" username="username" password="password" com="wget -q -O - https://mail.google.com/a/"+domain+"/feed/atom --http-user="+username+"@"+domain+" --http-password="+password+" --no-check-certificate" temp=os.popen(com) msg=temp.read() index=msg.find("<fullcount>") index2=msg.find("</fullcount>") fc=int(msg[index+11:index2]) print(str(fc)+" new")
Display new emails (IMAP + SSL)
Conky has built in support for IMAP accounts but does not support SSL. This can be provided using this script from this forum post. This requires the Perl/CPAN Modules Mail::IMAPClient and IO::Socket::SSL which are in the perl-mail-imapclientAUR and perl-io-socket-ssl packages
Create a file named imap.pl
in a location to be read by Conky. In this file, add (with the appropriate changes):
#!/usr/bin/perl # gimap.pl by gxmsgx # description: get the count of unread messages on imap use strict; use Mail::IMAPClient; use IO::Socket::SSL; my $username = 'example.username'; my $password = 'password123'; my $socket = IO::Socket::SSL->new( PeerAddr => 'imap.server', PeerPort => 993 ) or die "socket(): $@"; my $client = Mail::IMAPClient->new( Socket => $socket, User => $username, Password => $password, ) or die "new(): $@"; if ($client->IsAuthenticated()) { my $msgct; $client->select("INBOX"); $msgct = $client->unseen_count||'0'; print "$msgct\n"; } $client->logout();
Add to ~/.conkyrc
:
${execpi 300 ~/.conky/imap.pl}
or wherever you saved the file.
Alternatively, you can use stunnel as shown above: Conky#How to display the number of new emails (Gmail) in Conky
User-contributed configuration examples
Graysky
[Here] it is - modify to fit your system. Optimized for a quad core chip w/ several hdds (although one of them is not connected for this screenshot) and an nvidia graphics card. You can easily modify this to a dual or single core system with one or whatever number of hdds.
A sample rings script with nvidia support:
# -- Conky settings -- # background no update_interval 1 cpu_avg_samples 2 net_avg_samples 2 override_utf8_locale yes double_buffer yes no_buffers yes text_buffer_size 2048 imlib_cache_size 0 # -- Window specifications -- # own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below border_inner_margin 0 border_outer_margin 0 minimum_size 320 800 maximum_width 320 alignment bottom_right gap_x 0 gap_y 0 # -- Graphics settings -- # draw_shades no draw_outline no draw_borders no draw_graph_borders yes # -- Text settings -- # use_xft yes xftfont MaiandraGD:size=24 xftalpha 0.4 uppercase no default_color 888888 # -- Lua Load -- # lua_load ~/conky/lua/lua.lua lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats TEXT ${alignr}${voffset 53}${goto 90}${font MaiandraGD:size=11}${time %A, %d %B %Y} ${voffset 5}${goto 164}${font MaiandraGD:size=16}${time %H:%M} ${voffset -40}${goto 100}${font MaiandraGD:size=9}Kernel:${offset 70}Uptime: ${goto 90}${font MaiandraGD:size=9}$kernel${offset 40}$uptime ${voffset 57}${goto 117}${font snap:size=8}${cpu cpu0}% ${goto 117}${cpu cpu1}% ${goto 117}CPU ${voffset 19}${goto 145}${memperc}% ${goto 145}$swapperc% ${goto 145}MEM ${voffset 25}${goto 170}${nvidia gpufreq} ${goto 170}${nvidia memfreq} ${goto 170}GPU ${voffset 27}${goto 198}${totaldown ppp0} ${goto 198}${totalup ppp0} ${goto 205}NET ${voffset 21} ${goto 222}${fs_used /home} ${goto 230}DISK
- And the required lua.lua script:
--[[ Ring Meters by londonali1010 (2009) This script draws percentage meters as rings. It is fully customisable; all options are described in the script. IMPORTANT: if you are using the 'cpu' function, it will cause a segmentation fault if it tries to draw a ring straight away. The if statement on line 145 uses a delay to make sure that this does not happen. It calculates the length of the delay by the number of updates since Conky started. Generally, a value of 5s is long enough, so if you update Conky every 1s, use update_num > 5 in that if statement (the default). If you only update Conky every 2s, you should change it to update_num > 3; conversely if you update Conky every 0.5s, you should use update_num > 10. ALSO, if you change your Conky, is it best to use "killall conky; conky" to update it, otherwise the update_num will not be reset and you will get an error. To call this script in Conky, use the following (assuming that you save this script to ~/scripts/rings.lua): lua_load ~/scripts/rings-v1.2.1.lua lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats Changelog: + v1.2.1 -- Fixed minor bug that caused script to crash if conky_parse() returns a nil value (20.10.2009) + v1.2 -- Added option for the ending angle of the rings (07.10.2009) + v1.1 -- Added options for the starting angle of the rings, and added the "max" variable, to allow for variables that output a numerical value rather than a percentage (29.09.2009) + v1.0 -- Original release (28.09.2009) ]] settings_table = { { -- Edit this table to customise your rings. -- You can create more rings simply by adding more elements to settings_table. -- "name" is the type of stat to display; you can choose from 'cpu', 'memperc', 'fs_used_perc', 'battery_used_perc'. name='time', -- "arg" is the argument to the stat type, e.g. if in Conky you would write ${cpu cpu0}, 'cpu0' would be the argument. If you would not use an argument in the Conky variable, use . arg='%I.%M', -- "max" is the maximum value of the ring. If the Conky variable outputs a percentage, use 100. max=12, -- "bg_colour" is the colour of the base ring. bg_colour=0x888888, -- "bg_alpha" is the alpha value of the base ring. bg_alpha=0.3, -- "fg_colour" is the colour of the indicator part of the ring. fg_colour=0x888888, -- "fg_alpha" is the alpha value of the indicator part of the ring. fg_alpha=0.5, -- "x" and "y" are the x and y coordinates of the centre of the ring, relative to the top left corner of the Conky window. x=191, y=145, -- "radius" is the radius of the ring. radius=32, -- "thickness" is the thickness of the ring, centred around the radius. thickness=4, -- "start_angle" is the starting angle of the ring, in degrees, clockwise from top. Value can be either positive or negative. start_angle=0, -- "end_angle" is the ending angle of the ring, in degrees, clockwise from top. Value can be either positive or negative, but must be larger (e.g. more clockwise) than start_angle. end_angle=360 }, { name='time', arg='%M.%S', max=60, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=191, y=145, radius=37, thickness=4, start_angle=0, end_angle=360 }, { name='time', arg='%S', max=60, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=191, y=145, radius=42, thickness=4, start_angle=0, end_angle=360 }, { name='cpu', arg='cpu0', max=100, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=140, y=300, radius=26, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='cpu', arg='cpu1', max=100, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=140, y=300, radius=20, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='memperc', arg=, max=100, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=170, y=350, radius=26, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='swapperc', arg=, max=100, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=170, y=350, radius=20, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='time', arg='%d', max=31, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=191, y=145, radius=50, thickness=5, start_angle=-140, end_angle=-30 }, { name='time', arg='%m', max=12, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=191, y=145, radius=50, thickness=5, start_angle=30, end_angle=140 }, -- { -- name='fs_used_perc', -- arg='/', -- max=100, -- bg_colour=0x888888, -- bg_alpha=0.3, -- fg_colour=0x888888, -- fg_alpha=0.5, -- x=260, y=503, -- radius=26, -- thickness=5, -- start_angle=-90, -- end_angle=180 -- }, { name='fs_used_perc', arg='/home', max=100, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=260, y=503, radius=20, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='totalup', arg='ppp0', max=2, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=230, y=452, radius=20, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='totaldown', arg='ppp0', max=2, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=230, y=452, radius=26, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='nvidia', arg='gpufreq', max=475, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=200, y=401, radius=26, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, { name='nvidia', arg='memfreq', max=700, bg_colour=0x888888, bg_alpha=0.3, fg_colour=0x888888, fg_alpha=0.5, x=200, y=401, radius=20, thickness=5, start_angle=-90, end_angle=180 }, } require 'cairo' function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour,alpha) return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha end function draw_ring(cr,t,pt) local w,h=conky_window.width,conky_window.height local xc,yc,ring_r,ring_w,sa,ea=pt['x'],pt['y'],pt['radius'],pt['thickness'],pt['start_angle'],pt['end_angle'] local bgc, bga, fgc, fga=pt['bg_colour'], pt['bg_alpha'], pt['fg_colour'], pt['fg_alpha'] local angle_0=sa*(2*math.pi/360)-math.pi/2 local angle_f=ea*(2*math.pi/360)-math.pi/2 local t_arc=t*(angle_f-angle_0) -- Draw background ring cairo_arc(cr,xc,yc,ring_r,angle_0,angle_f) cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(bgc,bga)) cairo_set_line_width(cr,ring_w) cairo_stroke(cr) -- Draw indicator ring cairo_arc(cr,xc,yc,ring_r,angle_0,angle_0+t_arc) cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(fgc,fga)) cairo_stroke(cr) end function conky_ring_stats() local function setup_rings(cr,pt) local str= local value=0 str=string.format('${%s %s}',pt['name'],pt['arg']) str=conky_parse(str) value=tonumber(str) if value == nil then value = 0 end pct=value/pt['max'] draw_ring(cr,pct,p<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text hereBold text</nowiki>t) end if conky_window==nil then return end local cs=cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display,conky_window.drawable,conky_window.visual, conky_window.width,conky_w indow.height) local cr=cairo_create(cs) local updates=conky_parse('${updates}') update_num=tonumber(updates) if update_num>5 then for i in pairs(settings_table) do setup_rings(cr,settings_table[i]) end end end
A note about symbolic fonts
Many of the more decorated .conkyrc's use the fonts PizzaDude Bullets and Pie Charts for Maps. They are available from the AUR as 'ttf-pizzadude-bullets' and 'ttf-piechartsformaps' respectively, or they can be found and downloaded with a quick search and manually installed using the instructions in Fonts.
Fonts appear smaller than they should
If you notice that your conky fonts appear smaller than they should, or they don't align properly, it could be caused by a default setting in the infinality freetype2 patch. This setting can cause some programs to display fonts at 72 DPI instead of 96 even if the rest of your system is set to 96. If you notice a problem open /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf
search for the section on DPI and change 72 to 96.
Universal method to enable true transparency
Transparency is a strange beast in Conky, but there is a way to universally apply true transparency with any environment or window manager by using xcompmgr and transset-df. Install xcompmgr from [extra] and transset-df from [community] with pacman -S xcompmgr transset-df
. These packages both have the same 3 dependencies, so this is the lightest method for composition available, for those of you using standalone window managers in order to achieve the leanest setup you can manage (or whatever reason you have :D)
NOTE: This may conflict with any other compositing manager you are already using.
Check xcompmgr documentation to help you decide which compositing options you would like to enable. The following is a common standard command.
xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &
Make sure conky is running with conky &
. Use transset-df to enable transparency on the Conky window. Set '.5' to any value in the range 0 - 1.
transset-df .5 -n Conky
This should give your conky window true transparency. If you get an error like,
$ transset-df .5 -n Conky
No Window matching Conky exists!
Verify that conky is running, and use xprop and click on the conky window to find the name you should pass to transset-df
.
$ xprop | grep WM_NAME
WM_NAME(STRING) = "Conky (ArchitectLinux)"
In this case, "Conky" is right, but for you it may be different, so be sure to use your output instead. If ~/.conkyrc has own_window_type panel
then this xprop invocation may show now output. Try using any of the following options instead. own_window_type {dock,normal,override,desktop}
Use this in ~/.xinitrc to have transparent conky run when you startx
.
xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 & conky -d; sleep 1 && transset-df .5 -n Conky
External links
- Conky Configs on arch forums
- Official website
- Conky on Freshmeat
- Conky on SourceForge
- #conky IRC chat channel on freenode
- FAQ