Anyone use Conky?

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dkev

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For those who don't know, Conky is system monitor the can display up to 250 built in objects. Things like memory usage, system temps, weather, just about anything you can come up with. And it uses almost no resources. On my system it uses .08% of my resources. It's not for the uninitiated though. It's a script that you can modify any way you see fit. It just took me about 3 1/2 hours to get mine set up the way I wanted. I just used someone else's script and modified it . Although, his was set up for wireless, so I gotta figure out how to get the Internet traffic data to register on a wired system. Fortunately, there is no shortage of documentation on it. So any of you guys use it on your Linux systems?
 
Yes. I love conky. Best way to display system stats.

dkev said:
It's not for the uninitiated though. It's a script that you can modify any way you see fit. It just took me about 3 1/2 hours to get mine set up the way I wanted.
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It is not that hard to set up but there are so many ways to tweak it. It took me a long time to set it up because there are so many options to try and stats to display.

dkev said:
Although, his was set up for wireless, so I gotta figure out how to get the Internet traffic data to register on a wired system.
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Look for his netwoking info and rplace it with something like ${downspeed eth0} k/s and ${upspeed eth0} k/s. He could have his set to eth1, ath0, wlan0 or anything really but eth0 is typically wired.
 
I used conky as a lightweight resource friendly monitoring system when my work D610 was on it's last legs. However, I find that even with a D630, it's still my go-to for monitoring.
 
dunnen said:
Yes. I love conky. Best way to display system stats.


It is not that hard to set up but there are so many ways to tweak it. It took me a long time to set it up because there are so many options to try and stats to display.


Look for his netwoking info and rplace it with something like ${downspeed eth0} k/s and ${upspeed eth0} k/s. He could have his set to eth1, ath0, wlan0 or anything really but eth0 is typically wired.
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The toughest thing for me, was just figuring out what the script commands meant. Once I got my head around that part, it got a bit easier.
Thanks for the info. I will check that out. I'm sure its nothing major.
 
Look for his netwoking info and rplace it with something like ${downspeed eth0} k/s and ${upspeed eth0} k/s. He could have his set to eth1, ath0, wlan0 or anything really but eth0 is typically wired.
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That worked like a charm. Thanks!
Now to jack with the weather script.:eek:
 
Conky is hawtness. I just wish lm-sensors supported the X58 chipsets so I could include system temps from my rig.
 
dkev said:
Thats pretty similar to the one I use. I tried to set up the weather conky. That is way over my head.
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Yeah, i tried the weather too.. it was over my head also.
I might have to take a stab at the gmail plugin.. that's pretty sweet
 
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