Questions about Conky, the lightweight system monitor application.
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Trying to monitor an NFS mount with Conky results in an “statfs '/nfs/pi': No such file or directory” error
I've been google'ing this for a while and can't find any help.
I have a nfs-server at home that is mounted to our laptops with autofs via wifi. I monitor my laptop with conky 1.8.1 and I want to conky ...
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Gnome 3.6 and Conky 1.9
I just did a new install of GNOME-Ubuntu 13.04 version. I've just started playing with Conky, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I installed conky-all from the command line. I am using the .conkyrc ...
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Please give examples of .conkyrc files/images? [closed]
I have just installed conky to my laptop; the default conky is very ugly. I know that I can customize it, but it will just take too long. PLease anyone can they post there .conkyrc files and images so ...
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how do I get accuweather conky to run with my other 2 conky s in ubuntu 12.04
I m fairly new to conky but find it very awesome...I have managed to get bionic conky and conky metro date and time to work together...I changed the name of conky metro to conkyrc1 and added it to the ...
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Conky: Grabbed text has multiple lines and does not align
I'm grabbing the output of u1sdtool --cur to be reported in my conky. The output is:
u1sdtool --cur
Current uploads: 0
Current downloads: 0
This text is grabbed in the TEXT part of my conkyrc ...
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How I can configure Conky
I installed conky in ubuntu 12.10 download software center, but I ve no idea how update or upgrade and configure it with all different scripts to Conky, if I want configure conky with conky colors ...
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Conky Display Problem Showing the horizontal half of info not the full info
I have a strange problem with CONKY:
Just the horizontal half of information that is visible on my desktop (the horizontal half of time and date but the hard disks infos indicated in the config file ...
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Conky shows a black background until I press CTRL+H in Nautilus, then it becomes transparent
This shouldn't be a repost, I have looked through every article I can imagine is relevant, but nobody seems to have the same problem I do. First off, this is my first question ever, so I'm sorry if I ...
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wlan and macchanger
I was wondering about how to write a script for changing my default MAC address before enabling networking. It happens often, that the MAC address changes to default.
I would like to show the MAC ...
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(please)conky rings doesn't work “Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_clock_rings execution failed: attempt to call a nil value”
I will start by saying that I configured a conky file and made it work, but when I added lua rings it ran without having to restart, but once I restarted the rings wouldn't start up, I got the error ...
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Conky not showing desktop icons
I have installed the Inifinity style to Conky on my Ubuntu 12.04 system using XFCE4 as my WM and Desktop.
http://www.unixmen.com/infinity-a-stunning-theme-for-conky-ubuntu-linuxmint-fedora/
It works ...
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Dash is blinking
I Have installed one screenlet applet and Conky to my PC. But when I open dash it starting to blink and show through these applets. Hoe do I correct this. Please anybody help me. Thanx
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How to make a program appear on the desktop like conky?
I would like to make a terminal program run and appear on the desktop in the same way that conky does ( or at least a similar).
The effect I want to accomplish: Basically conky but with a command ...
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strange conky background behavior
I have created a custom conky showing weather forecasts in 3 cities like this:
But recently I've begun to see a strange behavior. After a few seconds, a white background a bit larger appears ...
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How to remove the basic conky installed on ubuntu?
I have installed basic-conky using the following commands:
wget -O basic-conky-eth-u.zip http://goo.gl/n0Jlg
unzip basic-conky-eth-u.zip
sudo rm basic-conky-eth-u.zip
Now how do I remove it?
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Need help aligning conky objects
I've been using Conky a long time, and one thing I just can't seem to get looking nice is the network graph.
The graphs start on the right hand side, and scroll to the left. I want the starting ...
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Launcher applications “shadow” remains where it was when mouse hovered over it
The background:I recently installed conky and configured it a little bit using some google search and some posts on Google+, which I don't think is the root cause of the problem below. I wrote a ...
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conky changed to above all windows [closed]
I am running a conky script.last night I have gone through some updates and then its giving it window above all other windows.
for more clarity you can eye my image.
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How to make Conky display meta data from gmusicbrowser?
Xubuntu 12.10 with XFCE
what do I have to do to make Conky display the media's meta data which is currently played in gmusicbrowser?
Do I have to follow one of these guides:
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Conky is too high in the top right
Xubuntu 12.10
DE: XFCE
So I started this conky script
http://conky.sourceforge.net/conkyrc-brenden
(it is the very first .conkyrc file i nthe top left on ...
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Conky transparency not working
I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 and since then conky has been acting up. This is what it looks after a while (specially if I use the option 'Show desktop' by draggin the mouse to a corner, as ...
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Installing Conky and get this “ Configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer?”
everytime i got into terminal and run
sudo apt-get install conky
i get screen pop up in my terminal saying..
"TrueType core fonts for the Web EULA
│
│ END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MICROSOFT ...
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Is it possible for Conky to display Time in words and not in numbers?
I want to have Conky display the time using words and not numbers, though I never seen one doing so I'd be nice to.
What I want to do is more or less what the widget for Android, Minimalistic Text ...
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Can Conky be visible on a locked screen?
I have Conky set to display my computer's IP address, and it would be nice if I could see this information even when the screen is locked. Is it possible to have Conky continue to be displayed even ...
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Autostart conky in XFCE
i want to autostart Conky in Ubuntu 12.04 / XFCE.
I tryed to start this script with "automatic starting applications" in sessions options:
sleep 6
conky
But it does not work.
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How to detect processor correct temperature in conky
I am using conky&conkyforecast to have a nice widget containing some system information and weather data.
But I can see that the temperature that conky shows is different than the one I get ...
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Run conky over LightDM
Is it possible to have my conky gadgets run over my lightDM login screen? If so, how would I go about this? I saw someone doing it with XDM under debian in this screenshot from a thread on the ...
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Converting Celsius Processor Temperature to Fahrenheit
I'm editing a Conky theme. I would like it to output the processor temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit instead of Celsius.
In the ~/.conkyrc file, the command sensors | grep 'Core 0' | cut -c18-19 is ...
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How to run Conky from terminal?
In this Unixmen tutorial there are 11 steps to setup Conky; I did all of them but the terminal show this message:
The program 'conky' can be found in the following packages:
* conky-cli
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How do I reposition Conky?
I successfully installed the "Gotham" Conky on my 12.04 desktop using these instructions
It works perfectly, positioned in the top-right side of my desktop, and I am happy every day of the week ...
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Conky is crazy!
I have just installed conky on my ubuntu 12.04 LTS but it appears... in the terminal ( and only in it ):
$ conky
Uptime: 0h 3m 35s
Frequency (in MHz): 800
Frequency (in GHz): 0.80
RAM Usage: ...
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Chameleon effect API
Is there a way to interact with the chameleon effect in Ubuntu? I would like to extract the current "theme color" and change the background color of conky accordingly.
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How can I use rhythm box and conky together?
I'm still fairly new at this and 12.04 LTS is my first hands on experience with Ubuntu all together. After spending a few weeks and trying to learn the in's and out's of the OS, I'm actually finding ...
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Ubuntu Precise Conky Accuweather USA script bugs: Days not displaying; Hi and Lo are switched, etc [closed]
I have a conky script that ran well for a while, and it implemented TBG's weather script - specifically the one for accuweather USA.
For some reason, completely unprompted, the 2nd and 3rd day ...
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How to align Conky text to centre of desktop?
I am working on creating an entire Theme based off of Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto album. This is my first time working with Conky and theme creation. I started off by creating the Conky setup:
I would ...
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A shell script won't autorun, in contrast it works in the terminal
I've got a pretty heavy conky config comprised of multiple files I just spent several days on, and I used a simple shell script to start it and used Gnome Classic's autostart application menu to ...
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A problem with conky in Gnome 3.4 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Conky not working in Gnome 3.4
My conky in Gnome 3.4 is not working. When I run a conky script nothing appears but the process is running. Please also see the debug code ...
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How do I format the output of nmap to display on conky?
I want to add to the network section of conky a list of all hosts and ips for my network.
However I do not know how to format the output in a way I like.
I want
Live Hosts However this is on the ...
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How to get average network load instead of instant
Welcome,
I use conky to see network load statistics with sampling every 8 seconds in order to get somewhat more smooth history chart. Unfortunately, all values i get are not average for this 8 second ...
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How to get conky to stay on the desktop
I have a conky setup that I've used on a number of desktops (here's the conkyrc). It works fine in Ubuntu Unity, XFCE, Gnome and Openbox, but not Lubuntu (LXDE). The problem is that I cannot get it to ...
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Conky not appearing on Compiz wallpapers?
I am running 12.04 and have followed the instructions here:
Is it possible to have a different background for each workspace?
to get a different wallpaper per workspace. It works by disabling ...
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How to autostart Conky in Lubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to start applications such as xcompmgr at start up?
Currently running Lubuntu 12.04 on my Lenovo s10-e. I have installed conky for the 3rd time, the first time I ...
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Conky: Read environment variable
How do you tell conky to read a global environment variable? Simple outputting of a variable works, but when used as a parameter, it doesn't work the way it should. For example, I have a env variable ...
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How do I set image position in conky
I copied and modified an existing .conkyrc file from the ubuntu forum and I'm trying to place the LinuxMint logo in a specific position Below are my conkyrc file and the screenshot
# UBUNTU-CONKY
# A ...
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Conky showing up in Unity Launcher
I've had my Conky configuration properly working in Ubuntu 12.04 for sometime. After a recent update and reboot Conky is showing up on the Unity Launcher as an entry when it is running. It's not ...
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How do I run two different conky sessions at the same time?
I want to run Conky lua (link to conky lua on Gnome-look.org) and Conky: Metro Clock (link to conky: metro clock on devianart.com) at the same time. I want to have them both on the start up ...
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Adding gmail.py increases conky's load time
I ma using gmail.py from ArchWiki to display new mail count in gmail. The script works fine and displays my new mail count correctly.
The problem I am facing is when I restart conky after adding the ...
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How to format/align conky's configuration file?
My current conky config file looks like below and I find it pretty ugly.
TEXT
Temp: ${color e0e0e0}${acpitemp}${color} | Uptime: ${color
e0e0e0}${uptime_short}${color} | Cpu: ${color ...
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How to make conky auto-hide?
I think my question is pretty clear. What I want to achieve in conky is auto-hide feature.
The reason for this:
Let's suppose I am browsing and suddenly I want to see my battery status or eth0 ...
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Conky dropping shadow when invoked at startup
I read this thread but it doesn't really address my issue. The problem that I have is that whenever I log in, conky starts up, as set up in Startup Applications, but the instance it runs is dropping ...
