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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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