How do I change Conky

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1

I installed Conky through Synaptec Package Manager and would like to know how I can give it different ‘skins’ and to know what it can display and how to add/remove them?

To run it I opened Terminal and typed…

conky

pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$ conky
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn’t connect to: /tmp/keyring-B23sXO/pkcs11: No such file or directory
Conky: desktop window (10000ac) is subwindow of root window (25c)
Conky: window type - desktop
Conky: drawing to created window (0x4600001)
Conky: drawing to single buffer
^Z
[1]+ Stopped conky
pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$

Why couldn’t it connect to the keyring?

2

Conky isn’t really my thing, maybe someone else can help.

I do know there are plenty of conky “themes” on the web … in places like:
http://www.noobslab.com/2012/07/conky-collection-for-ubuntulinux.html

I’d expect most of them to have a README file or similar.

3

Conky is very much a hands on application.
Take a look at this link and be prepared to familiarise yourselves with setting up .conkyrc etc…

4

I’ve uninstalled Conky and reinstalled it through the link that SeZo posted.
What I am trying now is to add weather info in it but it’s not working. I cant find any example configs showing the weather.
[spoiler]# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo

Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license

All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL

Please see COPYING for details

Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen

Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)

All rights reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

alignment top_right
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
gap_x 5
gap_y 60
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT
${scroll 16 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color grey}File systems:
/ $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}Networking:
Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} ${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed eth0}
$hr
${color grey}Name PID CPU% MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color grey} ${http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ UKEN3964 temperature 5}
[/spoiler]

The output is not what I expected, also, there’s now nothing displaying?

5

I’m also trying to get it to display the time and date but I can’t figure it out.

6

Try the link I gave you … they are dead easy to set up … then you can compare the .conkyrc files with yours if you wish

7

I’ve had a look around and come up with this…
[spoiler]# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo

Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license

All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL

Please see COPYING for details

Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen

Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)

All rights reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

alignment top_right
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color yellow
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders yes
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes

xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12

xftfont Ubuntu:size=10
gap_x 15
gap_y 40
minimum_size 5 0
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no
own_window_transparent no

TEXT
${font Ubuntu:size=8}${alignc}$nodename - $sysname $kernel
$hr
${font Ubuntu:size=10}${font Ubuntu:size=20}${color green}${alignc}${Time %a %d-%b-%Y}
${font Ubuntu:size=40}${alignc}${time %H:%M:%S}${font Ubuntu:size=10}

${color green}${font Ubuntu:size=16}SYSTEM$hr
${font Ubuntu:size=10}${color green}RAM :$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc%
${membar 6,300}
${color green}Swap :$color$swap/$swapmax - $swapperc%
${swapbar 6,300}

${color yellow}CPU ${color green}Frequency GHz:$color $freq_g ${alignr} ${color green}Uptime:$color $uptime${color green}
${color}Core 1 :$color${alignr}${cpu cpu1}% ${color}${cpubar 6,200 cpu1}
${color}Core 2 :$color${alignr}${cpu cpu2}% ${color}${cpubar 6,200 cpu2}
${cpugraph 25,300,ffff00 ffff00}

${color green}GPU TEMP ${execi 60 nvidia-settings -t -q GPUCoreTemp} C

${color green}Processes:$color$processes${alignc}${color green}Running:$color$running_processes
${color green}NAME${alignr}PID CPU MEM
${color red}${font Ubuntu:size=9}${top name 1}${alignr}${color red}${top pid 1} ${alignr}${top cpu 1} ${alignr}${top mem 1}${font Ubuntu:size=9}
${color green}${top name 3}${alignr}${color yellow}${alignr}${top pid 3} ${alignr}${top cpu 3} ${alignr}${top mem 3}
${color green}${top name 3}${alignr}${color yellow}${alignr}${top pid 3} ${alignr}${top cpu 3} ${alignr}${top mem 3}
${color green}${top name 4}${alignr}${color yellow}${alignr}${top pid 4} ${alignr}${top cpu 4} ${alignr}${top mem 4}
${color green}${top name 5}${alignr}${color yellow}${alignr}${top pid 5} ${alignr}${top cpu 5} ${alignr}${top mem 5}

${font Ubuntu:size=16}${color green}STORAGE$hr
${font Ubuntu:size=10}${color green}root:${alignc}$color${fs_used /root}/${fs_size /root}
${fs_bar 6,300 /root}
${color green}Drive1:${alignc}$color${fs_used /media/Drive1}/${fs_size /media/Drive1}
${fs_bar 6,300 /media/Drive1}
${color green}Drive2:${alignc}$color${fs_used /media/Drive2}/${fs_size /media/Drive2}
${fs_bar 6,300 /media/Drive2}
${color green}Drive3:${alignc}$color${fs_used /media/Drive3}/${fs_size /media/Drive3}
${fs_bar 6,300 /media/Drive3}

${font Ubuntu:size=16}${color green}NETWORKING$hr
${font Ubuntu:size=10}Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} ${color green}
${color red}${upspeedgraph eth0 25,300 ff0000 ff0000 180}
${color green}Down:$color ${downspeed eth0}
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,300 00ff00 00ff00 25}
$hr[/spoiler]

I want to add weather info to it but can’t figure out how. I also want to add temp sensors to it. I have added a GPU sensor (it worked by chance) and I’m unsure it’s correct as the temp it comes up with is really high compared to what I’ve seen it at before… 20 lower.

Another problem I’m having is the width, I want to make it smaller but again, I’m having difficulties figuring out how to do it.

Something weird happening is, whenever I click on the desktop, Conky vanishes.