Questions tagged [conky]
Questions about Conky, the lightweight system monitor application.
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How to track the total network data in a month [duplicate]
I can see the data transferred (internet Download/Upload) in the current session from the System Monitor. But I want something that keeps track of all the data transferred and I can see how much data ...
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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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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 dual screen positioning
I'm using Conky on Ubuntu 17.10 to display system informations on my desktop.
My computer has 2 monitors and I would like to move Conky to the 2nd one that is on the right, but I haven't found any ...
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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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Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome Conky does not work right
I downloaded and installed Ubuntu gnome 16.04 and I installed icon and theme and much. Finally I installed conky-manager but it doesn't work correct like this.
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How do I get the model name of my processor?
I am making a conky config and I want to display the CPU model as one of the stats. For this, I need a command that outputs just the CPU name as a string, for example, "Intel Core i7 7700K". I think ...
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How to get conky work even in lock screen?
As the question goes, is there a way to get conky work even when is the system is locked?
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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.
What I want to do is more or less how the Pebble Watch looks (Red watch).
Like in the image, even if only the time and not the date ...
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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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conky transparent
I tried to fix a conky on my desktop but I have small problem in conky background color. I want to change the color background to transparent and I tried so many times and it doesn't fix.
Here is a ...
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How to autostart conky in Xfce?
I want to autostart Conky in Ubuntu 12.04/Xfce.
I tried to start this script with "automatic starting applications" in sessions options:
sleep 6
conky
But it does not work.
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Setting up Conky on Ubuntu
I am surprised after seeing the features in the picture shown. After searching a little bit, I came to know that it is a conky theme. But now I also am not clear about it, and I don't know how to ...
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How do I stop icons appearing on the desktop in a particular area?
When I download something to my desktop, or insert a CD or flash drive, the icon appears on my desktop. When I have conky running, the icon sometimes appears in the top right corner, underneath conky; ...
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Nvidia plugin for Conky
I want to display GPU speed, Memory, and Temperature on my conky configuration. On the conky site it says you can use ${nvidia temp}°C to show it. However, when this happens, it takes it as litteral ...
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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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Conky does not starting automatically after boot
In start up applications I already given a command to start Conky automatically after boot.But it does not starting after boot automatically.I have to manually start it every time.Please help.
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS don't install Conky Manager
I need to install Conky Manager to add themes and change settings to make my own preferences on a desktop screen. However when I type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo ...
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Conky does not work properly on Ubuntu 16.04 GNOME
I have this strange problem with conky. It doesn't show properly on the desktop:
I've tried everything from editing conky widget file to reinstalling conky and conky manager (v.2.4). Who knows how to ...
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How to make Conky text semitransparent?
Okay, before you ask me to RTFM, I'll show you a screenshot, and describe my situation:
Screenshot
This is what I want to get. The screenshot above shows (semitransparent) Conky, but the ...
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Display clock frequency per core using Conky [duplicate]
I am using Conky to display a lot of information of my system. I managed to display the load percentage per core. But I do not know how to display the clock frequency of each core. What I have now is:
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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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Conky Guides (links)
I want to take a stab at creating my own layouts for conky, but I'm having trouble finding any recent guides.
If you know of any, I would be grateful if you could post some links.
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Conky & Ubuntu - music visualization (music bars)?
I started playing with Conky a few days ago and managed to achieve this:
(Note: although I've written it from scratch, I got inspired by this photo, credits to the author for their creativity)
As ...
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Removing conky drop shadow
I've started using Conky with 11.04 and want to remove its drop shadow.
I've tried setting any & !(class=Conky) in the Shadow Windows text box of the Window Decoration section. This works. ...
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SSD temp with conky
I have a problem with conky.
I installed hddtemp and my ssd is shown like this:
/dev/sda: Crucial_CT120M500SSD1: 39°C
now in conky I wrote:
${alignr 10}${color}SSD M500 Crucial 120GB Temp ${color1}$...
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Why isn't conky working right in Unity desktop?
First of all, my desktop environment is unity. I am using it with 14.04 OS(with all recent updates). I recently installed infinity conky. I installed and followed all the instructions correctly in the ...
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Conky does not use instructed font with "can't load Xft font" error
conky: can't load Xft font 'Ubuntu:size=8,weight:normal' is the error message which appears in the terminal.
use_xft yes is present in the Conky config file.
The Conky file can be found here
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Conky forecast F C output
Temp: ${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=01104 --imperial datatype=HT}
This what I have and it shows the right temp but it says 25° AF.
Any help or hints appreciated
And as allways TYAVMIA
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Conky not working in Gnome 3.4
I've installed conky using sudo apt-get install conky-all and followed this tutorial to configure. The configuration works properly in Unity desktop in Ubuntu 12.04 and everything seems OK, However ...
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How can I get IP address showing from using Conky
I'm just wondering how can I get IP address showing on the desktop from using Conky? Do I need to use conky (sudo apt-get install conky-all) or not? As I haven't done it before.
I'm thinking ...
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Problem installing conky package - ./configure not found
I am trying to install this package but when I go to the source folder and type ./configure I get
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
If I try sh ./configure I get
sh: 0: Can't open ./...
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Conky system temperature monitoring, execigraph empty
G'Day, Mat here.
Just wondering if anyone can shed light on why the Conky execigraph would be empty.
The screenshot shows execi, execibar, and execigauge all working, but not execigraph.
Screenshot ...
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Raise all windows with a specific title
I'm trying to find a way to raise all the windows that have one, specific title.
For example, I have two windows named superconky (yes, you guessed it, I'm trying to get conky running in lubuntu).
I ...
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Conky show RAM without buffers or cache
I am wondering if there's a way to get Conky to show the RAM that is in use minus the buffers and cache.
When I close a program, the RAM usage goes down in HTOP, but in conky it stays the same. So I'...
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I can't see my internet speed on conky
This is Conky's configuration:
-- vim: ts=4 sw=4 noet ai cindent syntax=lua
--[[
Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
All code written ...
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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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CPU and HDDs temperature in Ubuntu 22.04
I have a conky config using hhdtemp and hwmon to retrieve CPU and HDDs temperature.
Now in Ubuntu 22.04 those packages are not available anymore, what alternative do I have?
I need something from CLI, ...
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how to install Conky Manager on Ubuntu 18.04?
Recently I installed Ubuntu 18.04. Installing Conky Manager with these commands failed with "Dependency is not satisfiable: realpath".
sudo apt install conky-all
cp /etc/conky/conky.conf ~/.conkyrc
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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 read .json to output an specific number?
Hello I've been using this:
curl -s "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?id=6361046&APPID=6be5e3a6e62680c28044791e8fc7b568&units=metric" -o ~/.cache/weather.json
to write a ...
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Why is Conky on top of windows only on boot?
I recently changed my Conky config so that when I 'Show Desktop' Super+D, Conky doesn't also minimize.
So I changed own_window_type normal to own_window_type override
This worked fine except when I ...
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How do I correct these errors so that I can install conky? ( my weather is installed ok )
dpkg: warning: files list file for package my-weather-indicator'
missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 95%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files ...
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How to fix: conky disappears after click on desktop or other window?
How to make conky window stay visible after changing the focus, but with desktop icons visible as well?
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how can i get Conky to display weather?
I've been strugling to get conky to show the weather, I just installed it and found out that yahoo discontinued the api url which was the one the conky theme was using (http://weather.yahooapis.com/...
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could not save the file /usr/... permission denied (13.04)
I am running Ubuntu 13.04 and am trying to create an .sh file for conky in /usr/bin using gedit.
When trying to save I get the error dialogue:
Could not save the file /usr/bin/conky-start.sh
You do ...
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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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How to add space between value and unit in Conky
My Conky currently displays following with ${mem} and ${memmax} variables:
Mem: 3.63GiB / 15.2GiB
I want it to look like:
Mem: 3.63 GiB / 15.2 GiB
Is this possible with some configuration?
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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 ...