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Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.

Conky is a GitHub project. Its name is derived from the Canadian TV show Trailer Park Boys.

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how to pipe output from commandline to conky

I am trying to get conky to accept a variable from the screen for use in setting up network statistics. Specifically, here is what I want: The output to $ awk 'NR>1{print $6}' < /proc/net/arp wlp1s0 gives w1p1s0 I want this w1p1s0 to be fed into…
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Is there a textual version of Conky?

Is there a way to run conky in the terminal? I don't care about the graphics but I would like to have a window in screen that would effectively run as my 'conky' and display conky-like stats/scripts etc. If this isn't possible, are there…
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Conky 1.12.2 not showing graph borders (Ubuntu/Pop OS 22.04)

I just started playing with Conky (v. 1.12.2), and everything is great except I cannot make it show graph borders. (See screenshot) Borders appear only if I toggle outlines or shadows on, but I'd very much avoid it given the bad aesthetic result. My…
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conky using a function call within an if statement

How do I call a function after loading it in conkyrc? For example: I'm trying to get the active interface name which is returning properly ${lua conky_findInterface} #gives me device name function conky_findInterface() local handle =…
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How do I edit conky templates to dynamically show attached USB devices?

I have followed the example from Casey's Conky Reference with Examples . I modified it to have [conky config section] -- Format the storage information the same way for every device. Parameters: [human name] [path] template3 = "\\1 [${fs_size \\2}…
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How to store output of a shell script inside a variable in conky?

So I'm getting to get the CPU core temperature using sensors command. Inside conky, I wrote $Core 0 Temp:$alignr${execi 1 sensors | grep 'Core 0' | awk {'print $3'}} $alignr${execibar 1 sensors | grep 'Core 0' | awk {'print $3'}} Each second I'm…
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How to write comments within .conkyrc config file?

How to write comments within a .conkyrc config file?
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test statement and conky variables

I'm trying to make a conky variable only "turn on" under certain conditions. I've experimented with the test statement like in the following ${exec test -e /home/viridian/conky.conf && echo "yes" || echo "${goto 35}MOCEX : ${color}${fs_used…
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Lua cannot open libcairo with error "undefined symbol: luaopen_libcairo"

I am trying to configure conky to work with cairo, I added "require 'libcairo'" to the top of the default .conkyrc to make sure it would load, however, when I run conky, it gives me this error: error loading module 'libcairo' from file…
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how to access python variables from outside the script

I am using a python script that runs in a curses wrapper loop. I would like to have a conky display show the values of various str vars in the script, updating every second. I know i could have the python script write data to a text file and have…
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How to change text color in Lua script?

I have two scripts for Conky calendar, downloaded from internet. You can find it at the end of this post. I am not developer, but usually I am able to do small edits on finished code and fit it to my needs. Never touched Lua before and cannot figure…
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awesomeWM: transparent wibar?

I use awesomewm and have a small conky configuration on top of my wallpaper with transparent background. Now i have the idea to change the behaviour of awesomewm to let this small area untouched. So when maximising a window (client?) or when…
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DPMS standby timer countdown

I'm hoping to be able to use conky to display a timer showing the amount of time remaining until the display goes to standby. For example, if standby is set to 1200 seconds (20 min) and I'd like conky to show "10 minutes until screen is…
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Conky Issues: previous wallpaper or application background, double text, old conky text overlap

I am using Ubuntu 18.04, having multiple issues with my Conky setup. First, I use Variety, changing wallpaper application. Now Conky takes the snap of the earliest wallpaper background and uses it till next restart. The same issue with any…
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What is the Lua "replacement" for the pre_exec command in Conky files?

I'm not great at programming, but I was trying to fiddle around with a conky_rc file I liked that I found that seemed pretty straight-forward. As the title states, I have now learned that the previous command of pre_exec has been long removed and…
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