Questions tagged [conky]
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X that displays information on your desktop.
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Can't use Noto Color Emoji with Conky
I have a config file with this text
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# Weather
${color orange}Weather ${hr 2}$color
${execpi 3600 ~/.conky/Chau/weather.lua}]];
Here is the weather.lua
The output contains an emoji and it is ...
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How can I get xrandr to realize my screens are of a different height?
On Manjaro Linux using i3, I have an issue with lining up my two monitors to achieve seamless transition. Currently they look fine using this command to orient them:
xrandr --output USB-C-0 --primary -...
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how to properly display right to left language (arabic) in conky?
how to properly display right to left language (arabic) in conky ?
here is the content of a file:
and here is conky screenshot:
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Bind conky to single worksapce
Is it possible to run different conky configuration on different workspaces?
I've checked man conky, only to find the desktop directive, but that doesn't work. Conky still runs on all workspaces.
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conky: how to show the top internet using processes and their speeds like nethogs
In Linux, I find nethogs -a very useful for checking the internet speed usage per program.
Now, I want to integrate this functionality into Conky.
I'm open to any other method besides nethogs, as long ...
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Taking CPU cores offline while under load makes them unable to unload?
I have an AMD Ryzen 5 5625 U CPU with 6 physical cores and 12 SMP cores. I'm running Zorin Core OS 16.2r-1.
I've been testing ways of saving more power on a laptop. Ultimately I'd like to be able to ...
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Conky: attempt to compare number with nil
I'm trying to make my own conky script, and I'm having some trouble with a script I'm using. The script is this one. This is the problematic part:
{
name="diskio_read",
arg="/...
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Conky: Is there a way to have multiple-line blocks of text aligned horizontally?
I have been using a sligtly optimized version of Andeon's conky-simple, as shown below.
Unfortunately, I do not have much experience with conky scripts, so I am not sure I can actually do what I have ...
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How to set Conky to auto hide like gnome toolbar
Is there a way to configure conky to pop out when I move my mouse to the right of the screen and hide when I move it away like the gnome toolbar? I'm on Ubuntu 20 Desktop.
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Configuring Conky to report disk quota usage
Recently I learned how to set up per-user quotas on Debian, and now I'd like to add some quota information to Conky. I've read up a bit on the .conkyrc config, but I'm really struggling with the ...
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Troubleshooting: which file contains the error?
I currently try to get gcalcli working with conky. Everything looking good so far, I am just stuck on 1 error:
error: argument command: invalid choice: 'calw2'
Which makes sense. It should be calw 2 ...
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Name the process using the most CPU without leading or trailing spaces
I use the variable ${top name 1} in Conky to display the name of the process utilizing the most CPU. The default size of top_name_width=15. I've tried the following Conky settings with no success
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conky config issue with wheight
I copied this config https://www.gefoo.org/simple-conky-configuration-plainconky.html and I know it worked out just fine when I start testing it. But suddenly I can't see it full. And I did not make ...
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Conky display problem on restart "extra newlines"
I've been using conky for a while and been tweaking it every once in a while but lately I've got this problem.
When I restart conky or the system, it displays extra new lines but when I make a ...
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How can I embed a console app's output into my X11 desktop?
I'd like to view NetHogs output on my desktop.
For example, do any Conky or applets on Cinnamon exist, so I don't need to have a terminal open all the time?
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Plotting data from a text file on the desktop
I want to monitor some simulations I run In a way similar to how text monitor display data. I can easily generate a bunch of text files or image files with the data/plot I want to follow. How can I ...
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Failed to activate systemd service
I have a personal Conky script (at ~/.conky/conky-launch.sh) that I'd like to execute every time I boot up my OS (which is Fedora Workstation 39). So, I created a systemd service file named personal-...
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How to install conky themes?
I' m asking how to install conky themes that you download from the Pling store as zip and extract as folders on Linux.
I tried to rename the file name [name]. conf with Anything.conkyrc and then copy ...
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Why are CONKY memory RAM use stats higher than HTOP?
I have two different setups, one on virtual machine, and one standard, both on Linux, one on MINT and the other on MX. But on both, the CONKY stats for idle system RAM usage are around 200MB higher ...
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How to make conky appear on top of all windows?
How to make a conky window on top of all windows?
The only thing i find is how to avoid it but i want conky to be on top of all windows.
I would like to know what parameter is responsible for this or ...
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clock font in conky
I'm wanting to give the font for my digital clock in conky an outter edge thats a different color. I'm not sure how to go about it though. The pic is an example of what I'm wanting to do.
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Conky script not running after being converted
I am attempting to convert an older conky widget to the new syntax of 1.10+, but I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't run. I've ran through everything to make sure it was converted ...
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How do I parse information from netstat?
How do I extract the following from the output of netstat -anp?
remove ip address
remote port
local application name
local port
PID
I need this information to run in my conky. It shows everything, ...
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cairo graphics inside my_conky.lua is eating memory when I use surface_create_from_png
I tried adding images to my conky.lua with the following function
function drawimage(cr,img)
image = cairo_image_surface_create_from_png (img)
cairo_set_source_surface (cr, image, screen.x, ...
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Conky appears above other windows when started with xinit
I have two conky windows that start with xinit. One uses the old syntax and works perfectly. The other uses the new syntax and works perfectly when started from the terminal. However, when started ...
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What's wrong with this conky config? It's dog slow and doesn't display most of the text
It looks fine other than that it runs very slowly and I don't get any text beyond the 9th line or so. Window is the right size. I've got this feeling like Conky is the wrong tool for this. For the ...
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How to sync Google Calendar gcalcli with Conky/Desktop?
I want to sync my Google Calendar with the Linux Mint 17.2 desktop; preferably through Conky. I'm aware of a method using Thunderbird but I'd rather have it set up as described here. Following the ...
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Formatting VGA info to conky
I'm trying get conky working on my system, and I'm stuck on how to format a specific shell variable to display my VGA.
From shell I get my VGA using:
lspci | grep VGA
The output:
01:00.0 VGA ...
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Conky block padding Archlinux
I'm not sure if my question was discussed lately and that's why create new topic.
The problem is that my conkу widget not looking as I want it to.
Because of image size I decided to put it here.
My ...