Questions tagged [conky]
Questions about Conky, the lightweight system monitor application.
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How to use a variable inside a variable in conky
I have a file when the line 15 has the full path to an icon. That said, I want to display that icon using the ${image} variable:
${image myImage.png -p 0,10 -s 50x50}
To get the line value, I would ...
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activate click through mode on conky
Is it possible to use Conky theme as click through on desktop ?. i can use Conky as transparent. but i can't directly access files on desktop because can't click through it. Any idea ?. thanks.
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conky-all says it's installing cairo but lua can't find cairo anywhere
I've been trying to get conky to work for awhile now, but I can't seem to make it install cairo properly.
What I've done:
installed conky-all (sudo apt-get install conky-all)
Tried to get a theme ...
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Cannot get email notifications in conky
In my .conkyrc I want to be shown the number of emails on my provider's POP3 server.
Something like this
${pop3_unseen myserver myemail mypasswd -i 600 -p 995 -r 5}
only returns '0' as output, ...
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Conky starts, but doesn't display (21.10)
Was running 20.04 and conky worked fine. Double upgraded to 21.10 and now after reboot there's no conky display. I have it as a Startup Application as "conky -p 30". A 'ps' shows that ...
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How to install conky-manager on Lubuntu 18.04?
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install conky-manager
sudo apt-get install selene
It does not work on Lubuntu 18.04. How to install it?
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Conky New Line Problems
I have the following conkyrc
use_xft yes
xftfont profont:size=8
override_utf8_locale yes
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type panel
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,...
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Unity bar changing colour without request
UPDATED: I found that this happenes whenever I run the sudo -i nautilus command.
The Unity bar is changing colour without my request. I am not changing the background (I know it automatically ...
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Monitoring custom graph in CONKY
How to monitor a custom graph in CONKY. Right now I display the single values of the CPU frequency in GHz:
CPU1: ${exec echo "scale=1; $((`cpufreq-info -c 0 -f`)) / 1000 / 1000" | bc | awk '{printf "%...
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Geolocation-based weather in Conky
Automatically detect location in Conky
I travel to different places for work with my laptop. I would like to see the current weather for the place I am in. Is this possible?
There are conky ...
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Harmattan Conky on 14.04 with Variety wallpaper, Conky border stays as old wallpaper
It seems like this would be a common problem, yet I don't see any mention of it. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04/Unity. I have Variety installed and set to change the desktop image every 10 minutes. The 1st ...
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Conky has no transparency
Can't find an awnser to this. I have no idea why Conky isn't working properly. Here's a screenshot:
Also here's my conky file:
**#=====================================================================...
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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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Is there a way for Conky to display the number of incoming OpenVPN connections without invoking superuser powers?
Conky is easy to set up to display incoming tcp connections in a useful way:
I would like to also show incoming OpenVPN connections (udp).
Is there a way to do this in Conky without using sudo? ...
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Conky USB wifi signal strength not working
I use a PCI (the internal Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) and USB (linux reports it as Realtek RTL8188EUS, but really a TP-LINK wifi...) wifi devices on my laptop running Ubuntu 20.04.4LTS, plus there's ...
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ical-buddy for Ubuntu
I just moved from Mac to Ubuntu (with budgie desktop). I cannot find any command-line tool like ical-buddy which I can use to programmatically add or delete calendar events. I want to create a script ...
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Conky setup for sessional data usage
As in the above picture, the integration for data usage is acheived by the following code
${color orange}${voffset 2}${hr 1}
${color1}Network using vnStat "-i", "-w" and &...
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Conky on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Hey I followed this instruction to display my google calendar on desktop in ubuntu 18.04
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/11/how-to-embed-google-calendar-on-your.html
But nothing happens when I ...
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Conky doesn't show calendar on desktop
I have configured conky and gcalcli to display a google calendar on my desktop.
My conky configuration file is the following:
conky.config = {
background = true,
update_interval = 1.5,
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how to install conky manager package
I can't get download conky manager package...
It's forbidden for me..
I tried to download and remove later but conky window can't remove...
I can't remove this part from my screen by uninstalling
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In conky, how to have different update interval to monitor USB memory drive only
I´ve got a question regarding a specific part of a conky-config.
I understand that by setting the update_interval parameter to 1.0 the whole conky application updates every second.
What I want to ...
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How to get Conky to display VLC data properly
I have a Conky config that gets the output of a python script:
#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
import sys
import getopt
def cmd_output(args, **kwds):
kwds.setdefault("stdout", subprocess....
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Conky: why does upspeedgraph look like downspeedgraph when values are different?
I wrote my first conky file recently and have been tweaking it. I added an upspeedgraph and downspeedgraph to my network section. But regardless of the actual up and down speeds, the graphs look ...
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Conky widget looks bad
I'm trying to install Malice-tab-conky, but many errors occur. I already fixed problems with hddtemp, font and missing $endif. Right now it kinda works, but looks something like this:
When running ...
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Is there a word cloud for applications?
Is there a script or a software which takes the names of the applications that are open and outputs them on the desktop like a word cloud? Conky implementations are also welcome.
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Conky only recognizes one of my two monitors in Lubuntu
I have a two monitor setup and a very basic Conky that would show in the upper right corner of the right-hand monitor with alignment='right'. Since upgrading from Lubuntu 16.04 to 16.10, conky appears ...
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Lubuntu LXDE issues with Gis weather running in compton
I've done a lot of google searching on this and can only assume that I'm not setting my compton.conf just right. I have shadows and a blurry background on my Gis Weather where it should be a ...
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Conky Infinity for Ubuntu 16.04
Is the conky infinity theme available for 16.04? I have literally tried everything. All of the methods refer to the previous versions. Is it still available? Also if possible, can you provide with the ...
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Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 Cant change conky font
I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 and installed Gnome DE 3.18. Then installed conky-manager to customize my desktop. Everything worked well and the only problem now I am facing is changing fonts. I ...
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panel/bar run conky
I wanna run a conky in my i3 status bar. Works well with the conkyi3.sh script as status_command:
#!/bin/sh
echo "{\"version\":1}"
echo "[[]"
exec conky -c $HOME/.conkyrc
and here is my conky:
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conky weather forecast isn't working
I'm new here. I'm using Kubuntu 14.10 - and here's my first question:
I'm running conky; the only thing that is not working is the weather forecast. Conky is telling me: "city not found" (the code ist ...
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conky not showing
Today I've installed conky and gcalcli to create a background which shows my gmail agenda, but when I try to start conky I get the following error:
Conky: desktop window (2e0000a) is subwindow of ...
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Show just two lines in lm-sensors
I want to add lm-sensors to my conky setup, but it always shows this:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0: +41.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +102.0°C)
Core 0: +41.0°C (high =...
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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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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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is there any other conky fonts besides conkysymbols?
is there any other conky fonts besides conkysymbols?
I am using Conky version 1.12 and using ConkySymbols, but would like a few more symbols.
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Conky black background kde plasma
The conky theme has black background. When I tried to remove the background, nothing changes. Even using conky manager2 to change the background to transparent, it still shows black background.
Below ...
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Conky manager v2.72 stuck on searching directories
A few days ago I joined Linux by installing UBUNTU to my HP laptop.
I used Some themes and used CONKY to get a date time widget to my desktop screen, but now conky isn't running. I visited its Git ...
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Music status not showing on Conky/MOC?
I am installing Graffias theme on Conky but the music not showing what is played on Rhytmbox. I am also looking for a way that those display anything that play on Firefox/Discord etc just for the ...
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Unable to find conky file
I installed conky but can not find the conky file. I also turned on "show hidden" but it is not showing. I rebooted my PC and checked that I have installed conky. It was installed but the ...
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Temparture and Fan Monitoring
Hello Ubuntu friends
From Hardinfo :
Processor : AMD A10-6800K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Motherboard : Asus a88x bios 1202
Memory : 15551MB (8779MB used)
Machine Type : ...
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conky - how to display OS name and version & Gnome version in Ubuntu 22.04
conky is functioning perfectly on the desktop - I'd just like to add this extra info.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Slightly modified ~/.conkyrc for a neat display on the right:
-- Conky, a system ...
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Conky manager 2 not working with Ubuntu Mate 21.10
Just installed new Ubuntu 21.10. Wanted to have some conky widgets but cannot display them. I'm using;
Ubuntu MATE 21.10 x86_64,
conky 1.11.6,
conky manager 2.73
I can only display the ugly default ...
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Conky doesn't seem to launch
I'm not sure if this is quite the right place as I'm now running Kubuntu, but I don't know of a forum or stack dedicated to specifically Kubuntu help.
I'm trying to run the GoogleIntegratedSystem ...
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trying to add two (2) wifi monitoring in CONKY
I'm currently using this part of my conkyrc code to monitor one of my WIFI's in a CONKY widget, but I want to monitor both of the two (2) wifi devices (wlp2s0 and wlx8416f91d3f6d) - any ideas?
${font ...
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Actual use of Software (such as Conky) AFTER installation
For something ALREADY ACTUALLY INSTALLED, how do I get it to run, put an icon for it on desktop etc?
My Software Manager tells me, for instance, that I have installed some GNOME clock though it ...
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Conky update interval now very slow since upgrading to Ubuntu 20.10
Anyone else using Conky with Ubuntu 20.10? Anyone else seeing issues with Conky update_interval since 20.10?
I don't really know if this is an issue with Conky or with Ubuntu but I am trying to debug/...
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Script to give back highest and lowest cpu temp
I was recently trying to install conky with a custom config, and I wanted a feature that seems to not extst, or at least, as google tells me. I've wrote a simple bash script that reads the cpu temps, ...
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need conky formatting help to align grep output
I can't figure this out, so i hope you guys can give me a hand here.
So, i was trying to figure a way to show the TLP status on my conky.
In the terminal you would type: tlp-stat -s
However....that's ...
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Conky text goes black, 18.04, Intel
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_class conky-semi
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
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