Questions tagged [conky]
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X that displays information on your desktop.
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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 1.11.6 - Want to eliminate gaps above/below graphs
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Debian Linux 11.5 "bullseye"
Conky 1.11.6 (compiled 2020-08-17, package 1.11.6-2)
Xorg 1.20.11 (package 2:1.20.11-1+deb11u2)
FVWM version 3 release 1.0.5 (built from git ...
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Why conky-manager don't recognize the custom themes in Fedora?
I moved to Fedora a few days ago. I was using Linux Mint, and before that I used Ubuntu. In both I use a custom themes for conky that I download from www.gnome-look.org and it worked fine.
Now I ...
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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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Cannot autostart Conky in Fedora 36 - GNOME 42
So: I just installed Conky, and it looks very nice. But it's annoying to constantly open it on startup manually. So I've search for a way to autostart Conky
I've tried:
Making a .desktop file and put ...
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`conky` without `lua`: can a bar be reverted?
With lua you definitely can.
What about without lua? Can conky draw a bar not left-to-right like this for 10%:
█░░░░░░░░░
but right-to-left like this?:
░░░░░░░░░█
E.g. the Rainmeter for Windows does ...
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Print GPU usage in conky
I cannot print my GPU usage I have the following regexp:
${execgraph 16,235 $(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu --format=csv -l 5 | sed -n '2p' | grep -Po "\\d+")}
Which prints the ...
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How to use Conky variable with external command?
I'm trying to create a workaround for Conky's truncation of usernames with the top user function. Using id -nu $uid, I tried this:
${exec id -nu ${top uid \1}}
which leads to "bad substitution&...
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How do I convert these commands to work in a conky file?
What I am doing is working on a conky widget, and I am trying to get a voltage reading from the sensor chip on my motherboard to display it. I am getting a voltage reading and displaying it in the ...
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how to uninstall conky?
Okay so I am facing an annoying issue where apt install just a different version of conky(all,standard,cli) every time I try to purge it. which is stupid. Below is a trimmed version where this happens....
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Starting and closing an application based on an other application
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and I'm looking for a bash script to start Quodlibet (a music application) and conky simultaneously. Edit: The idea is to use the sh script in a .desktop launcher
Start ...
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How do I make this border round in conky Manjaro KDE? (Repost from "off topic" StackOverflow post)
Origanaly posted by RodrigoSQL on StackOverflow. I answered this question on StackOverflow but it was deleted
How do I make this border round?
Hello guys, I'm setting up Conky in the manjaro, but I ...
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Conky text padding with dzen2
I have the exact same issue as Creating Conky text variables with zero padding? for displaying network speed.
Except that I'm piping conky to dzen2. It seems lua_parse is not working within that setup....
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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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What's wrong with my conky.conf?
I have been using this configuration for conky for some time on debian but, for some reason, it does not work on Alpine Linux.
When i launch conky from the terminal I get:
alpine:~$ conky &
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How to remove i3wm info on Desktop
I was wondering how I could remove those information I am showing you in the following images:
As I said, the window manager I am using is i3 and it has been installed through Manjaro Architect, so ...
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Fix Conky widgets, not loading
Recent system updates have broken Conky manager, well it hasn't been updated on Github 4-5 years, looks abandoned but still maybe anyone knows how to fix it. It happened with the latest updates on ...
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conky - how to set a hard width limit to
I am changing my vertical conky into a horizontal conky bar going across the top of my screen.
For the Name and CPU %, how do I set a max width column? I need to set a fixed width on Name CPU% so I ...
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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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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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Why are `top` CPU numbers different from those of System Monitor and Conky Process Panel?
When my laptop gets slow for a moment during somewhat heavier processing I expect to see higher numbers (for CPU use) than what I in fact see in the conky Process Panel that I have on the desktop and ...
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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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Dynamically loading image based on function output
I'm trying to load a .png to display a battery icon in conky. So far I've tried nesting the function call, using eval but I can't seem to find a solution.
Here is my non working conky.text:
conky....
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Save iwconfig to a variable
I am trying to assign Link Quality (percentage) from iwconfig to a variable in a .sh file. This is for a conky theme I'm making. To do this I have the following:
lnk=$(iwconfig mlan0 | awk '/Link ...
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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 to set the border color of graphs in conky
I'm trying to set the border color to grey in my conky cpu graph, but I can't figure out the way to do this & how the colors are specified, I'm not doing it right. Using the following (the color I ...
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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 variable concatenation
My problems is to merge these two functions into one:
${fs_bar 6 dev/sr0} or ${fs_bar 6 /run/media/'home folder name'/'dvd label'}
blkid -s LABEL -o value /dev/sr0
I want to obtain a sort of this:
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Display Chinese and English Characters Conky
So I'm trying to add kind of a word of the day thing to conky, but with Chinese words. There's a few ways I've tried this and with no success.
I have my words saved in a csv file formatted like
电脑,...
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Conky auto startup in Fedora 28
This is recurring question yet I cannot make one program (conky) to automatically start when GNOME 3 starts. In ~/.config/autostart I have the following file:
cat ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop
[...
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How to do math manipulation with variables in conky?
This is part of my conky code.
conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_right',
background = true,
color2 = '2ECC71',
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
default_color = 'FFFFFF',
double_buffer = ...
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how to display lsb_release info in Conky?
i'd like to display the output of lsb_release -ds in my Conky display. ftr, in my current installation that would output Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia.
i had thought of assigning the output of that command ...
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Conky widgets won't render some of their graphics
OS: Arch
Desktop: gnome
Conky version: 1.10.8-2 + conky-manager-2.4-2
Widgets used: conky seamod (conky_manager default), conky rings
The problem:
when using one of those widgets a very spesific ...
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Can I list logins on Conky?
I would like to list the last 3 logins on conky so it would look something like this
username 1/1/2018 12:15 - 12:21 (00:06)
The format can very.
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Conky i3bar not recognizing spaces
I redid my i3bar recently with conky. This morning when I woke up the there were un-recognized characters symbols in my bar (where there are spaces in my conkyrc file). Nothing has really changed to ...
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bash command to get distribution and version only
I am trying to get the distribution name and version number to enter into conky. I am currently using the following
rpm --query centos-release
resulting in
centos-release 7-4.1708.e17.centos....
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How can I create a custom conky bar for diskio in Linux?
I am using conky 1.10.3 (conky-all) in Ubuntu 16.10 (x86-64), kernel 4.8.0-59-generic, Cinnamon 3.0.7.
How can I create a bar for diskio (actually, one for diskio_read and another for diskio_write)?
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How can I use output of a execi in a conky in a subsequent line
I'm not a coder, just someone who is trying to work with conky for default distribution with a Linux distro. Here I am trying to get automatic net setup.
Following posts here and elsewhere, I am able ...
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Append new lines to stream, until certain number is reached
I'm using this command, which searches pacman.log for packages updated today and converts them into a conky string:
tail -500 /var/log/pacman.log | grep -e "\[$(date +"%Y-%m-%d") [0-5][0-9]:[0-9][0-...
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DeaDBeeF progressbar for conky (cipricus code)
Hello cipricus or someone that can help.
I'm just started using deadbeef conky progressbar by cipricus
Very nice script i must say, but... I got an issue, if deadbeef is stoped, the progressbar ...
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How to uninstall conky
I downloaded conky from github: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
then I installed it using this method:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ccmake /home/user/conky
# this will launch a curses-based UI ...
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How to output a date/time as "20 minutes ago" or "9 days ago", etc
I run rsync as a cron job and display the last backup via conky (i.e. "Last backup 2017 05 12 14:22:20"). I would like to display my last backup as "2 days ago" or "4 hours ago", rather than just ...
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Create a very thin conky window?
I am currently attempting to configure my Conky layout. I would like a very thin panel behind the text to go across a portion of my screen (something like 20 pixels high by 400 pixels wide).
Having ...
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In conky, how can I show a progress-bar for the track playing in Deadbeef?
I had a simple conky script for the Deadbeef audio player:
The part that is concerned with the lines above is this:
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${color 3399FF}${alignr}db audio is playing:
#${alignr}
${color FFFFFF}${...
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Name/Edit/Remove Manjaro i3 Desktop Elements
I have been trying to find the names of these two elements so I can edit/remove them. However, I have failed. What widgets(?) are these and where are their config files? And what placed them on the ...
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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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Why won't this conky config stick to background in i3wm?
Having issues with my i3wm conky config.
When "own_window = yes" the clock displayed in this file always stays on top of all my windows. And it won't display if I set the value to no.
my conky file:
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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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