
CONKY-colors
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
Now it's easy to customize your desktop!
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.
CONKY-colors is an easier way to configure Conky.
This conky script support multilanguage:
Bulgarian, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian
How to install
Go to a terminal and type:
$sudo apt-get install aptitude python-statgrab python-keyring ttf-ubuntu-font-family hddtemp curl lm-sensors conky-all
$sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp || https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75639
$sudo sensors-detect #answering Yes (default) to all questions, even that last one that defaults to No
Now restart your session
Download and extract the conky-colors.zip and type in terminal in the same directory that has been extracted.
$make
$sudo make install
$conky-colors {options}
$conky-colors --help [for help]
Ex: if your cpu is quad-core and you want the noble color, with hd, network and pidgin monitor and all in portuguese
conky-colors --theme=gnome-noble --lang=pt --cpu=4 --network --hd=default --pidgin
For a working photo widget you need to specify a file or directory in conkyPhoto or conkyPhotoRandom script in ~/.conkycolors/bin/
Update your font cache:
$sudo fc-cache -v -f
+++ Kaivalagi's Scripts (Included in conky-colors) +++
Conky SSL Mail Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869771
Conky Rhythmbox Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=928168&highlight=conky+rhythmbox
Conky Banshee Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7683570
+++ If you can, say thanks to him for this great work +++
in terminal type conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc.
To run conky at startup, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications, click "Add" and add the path to the conkyStart file[/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyStart]
that's all folks!
OPTIONS FROM THE SCREENSHOT:
conky-colors --cpu=2 --calendar --photord --clementine=cd --hd=default --network --theme=wise
conky-colors --sls --weather=brxx0043 --theme=orange
conky-colors --cairo --cpu=2 --clock=cairo --network --theme=blue
conky-colors --ring --network --theme=red
conky-colors --slim --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=white --weather=brxx0043
conky-colors --board --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=cyan
KWON PROBLEMS:
Lua/bash scripts work with conky 1.8.1, but most of the python scripts still doesnt;
SLS MODE only work with lm-sensors configured
The position of the photo and cover may be wrong bc in ubuntu the space between the widgets is different from Archlinux (I'm an arch user now)
HELP WITH CONKY:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
REPORT BUGS:
https://github.com/helmuthdu/conky_colors/issues
7 years ago
9.0 (2013-10-17)
* Complete new icon set, replaced most of the fonts with the new conkycolors font family;
* Widgets review;
* Refactory all hd scripts to use python 3;
* Many, many, many bugfixes;
7 years ago
9.0 (2013-10-17)
* Complete new icon set, replaced most of the fonts with the new conkycolors font family;
* Widgets review;
* Refactory all hd scripts to use python 3;
* Many, many, many bugfixes;
jhouway
2 days ago
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yusufbakar
1 year ago
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vincentnex
1 year ago
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iznogud78
2 years ago
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wuxidong
2 years ago
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Sozu
7 years ago
user@CPU:~$ conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc.
Conky: invalid configuration file '/home/user/.conkycolors/conkyrc.'
Conky: desktop window (140001d) is subwindow of root window (80)
Conky: window type - desktop
Conky: drawing to created window (0x3c00001)
Conky: drawing to single buffer
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pauli8585
7 years ago
Only the network interface isn't working because of a new naming scheme in systemd, since v197. Could you add something like a custom name parameter for the network interfaces?!
See "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames" for more information.
Thanks a lot!
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helmuthdu
7 years ago
You can use the github to report bugs too :)
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sidrosao
8 years ago
thanks for this post. I followed the instructions as per the post, but still get the basic, original (and quite ugly!) conky black window. when running conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc , I get the message:
Conky: invalid configuration file '/home/martin/.conkycolors/conkyrc'
Conky: desktop window (c00021) is subwindow of root window (ab)
Conky: window type - desktop
Conky: drawing to created window (0x4200001)
Conky: drawing to single buffer
For some reason it is not recognising the configuration file at all and just running the original config for conky. I have NOT edited the configuration file at all (conkyrc). I am quite new to linux so no idea how to troubleshoot... I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon 13.
This seemed to be the best thread on easily configuring conky so I hope iit can be easily worked out!
many thanks in advance for your time and help
m
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Danirocker
8 years ago
mv: no se puede efectuar `stat' sobre «/tmp/conkycolors/conkyPlayer.template»: No existe el archivo o el directorio
Thanks!
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floorfilla
8 years ago
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Budoc
8 years ago
Conky: obj->data.i 2 info.cpu_count 1
Conky: attempting to use more CPUs than you have!
This is despite me running conky-colors with: conky-colors --ring --cpu=1 --network. I've looked at my conkyrc and it only contains references to CPU1, so why am I getting this error? Any ideas?
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intronigma
8 years ago
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8 years ago
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helmuthdu
8 years ago
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8 years ago
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Makaze
8 years ago
settings = {--NETWORK GRAPH DOWN
value=tonumber(conky_parse("${downspeedf wlan0}")),
value_max=100 ,
x=xp , y=yp ,
graph_radius=22 ,
graph_thickness=5 ,
graph_start_angle=180 ,
graph_unit_angle=2.7 , graph_unit_thickness=2.7 ,
graph_bg_colour=bgc , graph_bg_alpha=bga ,
graph_fg_colour=theme , graph_fg_alpha=fga ,
hand_fg_colour=theme , hand_fg_alpha=0.0 ,
txt_radius=35 ,
txt_weight=1 , txt_size=8.0 ,
txt_fg_colour=fgc , txt_fg_alpha=fga ,
graduation_radius=28 ,
graduation_thickness=0 , graduation_mark_thickness=1 ,
graduation_unit_angle=27 ,
graduation_fg_colour=theme , graduation_fg_alpha=0.3 ,
caption='NET' ,
caption_weight=1 , caption_size=10.0 ,
caption_fg_colour=fgc , caption_fg_alpha=fga ,
};draw_gauge_ring(settings)
settings = {--NETWORK GRAPH UP
value=tonumber(conky_parse("${upspeedf wlan0}")),
value_max=100 ,
x=xp , y=yp ,
graph_radius=17 ,
graph_thickness=5 ,
graph_start_angle=180 ,
graph_unit_angle=2.7 , graph_unit_thickness=2.7 ,
graph_bg_colour=bgc , graph_bg_alpha=bga ,
graph_fg_colour=theme , graph_fg_alpha=fga ,
hand_fg_colour=theme , hand_fg_alpha=0.0 ,
txt_radius=0 ,
txt_weight=1 , txt_size=8.0 ,
txt_fg_colour=fgc , txt_fg_alpha=fga ,
graduation_radius=28 ,
graduation_thickness=0 , graduation_mark_thickness=1 ,
graduation_unit_angle=27 ,
graduation_fg_colour=theme , graduation_fg_alpha=0.3 ,
caption='' ,
caption_weight=1 , caption_size=10.0 ,
caption_fg_colour=fgc , caption_fg_alpha=fga ,
};draw_gauge_ring(settings)
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lorexxi
8 years ago
Line 193:
fprintf(fp,"${goto 65}%s: ${color2}${addr eth0}${color}\n", localip);
Must Be:
fprintf(fp,"${goto 65}%s: ${color2}${addr wlan0}${color}\n", localip);
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helmuthdu
8 years ago
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hongquan
8 years ago
Can you replace the method of seeting SUID bit on hddtemp with this safer method:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75639
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helmuthdu
8 years ago
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hongquan
8 years ago
What missing is a script to parse the result from netcat. I hope there is some one who knows Bash can help.
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nkrypt
9 years ago
Quote:
:~/Desktop/conky_colors$ make
cc -Wall -std=c99 src/conky-colors.c src/conkycover.c src/conkyforecast.c src/conkyplayer.c src/conkyrc_cairo.c src/conkyrc_ring.c src/conkyrc_board.c src/conkyrc_default.c src/conkyrc_slim.c src/conkyrc_sls.c src/coverposition.c src/finddir.c src/help.c src/options.c src/photoposition.c src/themes.c src/translations.c src/variables.c src/confinstall.c src/utils.c src/initialize.c -o conky-colors
src/options.c: In function ‘options’:
src/options.c:224: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
src/options.c:224: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
src/themes.c: In function ‘themes’:
src/themes.c:195: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
src/themes.c:195: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
Anything I need before i can make? I've done this many times before but this has never happened. Running Ubuntu 10.10, all updates up to date.
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SckyzO
8 years ago
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jackguru
9 years ago
In order to bypass it, I had to edit ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc and change own_window_type from normal to dock. Then, I changed gap_x to move conky where I wanted to (basically screenwidth - conkysize).
Another issue, I have more than 1 cpus, so I wanted to check them all. by doing that, the clock ring did not reposition and some other rings moved further down than they should have been. I edited the .lua files though and the problem was solved. Great work though, thanks!
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