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After a lot of frustration with the weather portion of conky I finally learned that the weather.com script that’s part of the script I was using won’t work anymore because weather.com has decided to commercialize the service. And the cost isn’t cheap – an entire years service of Myth TV listings is basically the same price weather.com wants for 1 month of service (are you nuts?).

Anyway enough ranting. My new conky configuration (minus the weather portion) looks like this:

My Conky Setup

I’ve turned auto-hide on both of my “panels.” Yes, I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Parts of my script are borrowed from a number of other scripts and scraped together in the following mess:

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Trebuchet MS:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 180 0

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 5

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
own_window_colour white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 35
gap_y 50

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none

TEXT

${font Arial:size=20}${color Tan1}GNU${color Ivory}LINUX$font

${font Arial:size=14}${nodename}$font

SYSTEM ${hr 2}

Kernel:  ${alignr}${kernel}
CPU: ${cpu cpu}% ${alignr}${cpubar 8,60 cpu}
RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}

DATE ${hr 2}
${alignc 35}${font Trebuchet MS:size=26}${time %H:%M}${font}
${alignc}${time %a %d %b %Y}

HD ${hr 2}

Home:
${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home}
Root:
${fs_free /root}/${fs_size /root} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /root}

NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
Up: ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup wlan0}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown wlan0}
Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan0}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan0}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth0}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth0}${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}${endif}${else}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font}   Network Unavailable${endif}

MUSIC ${hr 2}
${alignc 35}${font Buttons and Switches JL:size=38}J${font}
${voffset 7}${exec conkyExaile –datatype=TI} by ${exec conkyExaile –datatype=AR}

TOP PROCESSES ${hr 2}
${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top mem 1} %
${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top mem 2} %
${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top mem 3} %
${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top mem 4} %
${top_mem name 5}${alignr}${top mem 5} %

How did I get Exaile music player and the extra icons? Add the following PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:conky-companions/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install conkyexaile

If you do an apt-cache search conky you’ll notice a number of other conky scripts, including the aforementioned weather script.