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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 Move Column/(conky command) up 1 Line - Preferably with sed

parts of my file look like this: ${goto 97}${exec sed -n '1p' $HOME/.config/conky/itl/raw2}# ${goto 194}${exec sed -n '2p' $HOME/.config/conky/itl/raw2}# ${goto 291}${exec sed -n '3p' $HOME/.config/conky/itl/raw2}# ${goto 388}${exec sed -n '4p'…
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function conky.... didn't return a string, result discarded

I can not display the value of the string in conky, tell me where the errors are. my function call: ${lua conky_func} conky.config section: lua_load = '/home/user/.conky/function.lua', result: conky: llua_getstring: function conky_func didn't return…
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cannot install "conky" due to missing dependencies such as "libgdk-pixbuf" im running the latest version of Ubuntu

I'm trying to do is install conky and following every tutorial I can and can not get anything use full due too having problems downloading or something needing some dependency I'm stuck and lost and new and really mad at this point due to following…
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How to display days in a different language?

I downloaded a conky script from gnome-look which shows the day in english and would like to change the day language to Arabic. the script is : background yes update_interval 1 cpu_avg_samples 2 net_avg_samples 2 temperature_unit…
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Show kernel version on two lines in Conky

I use 3 different kernels: 5.19.1-xanmod1-x64v2, 5.19.1-051901-generic, and 5.18.0-17.1-liquorix-amd64. Conky uses $kernel to display the full kernel version I'm using at the time. I want to to display the info on two lines like…
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Executing sensors command (lm-sensor) in Lua

I originally have this Lua script function temp_watch() warn_value=60 crit_value=80 temperature=tonumber(conky_parse("${hwmon 1 temp 1}")) if cpu_tmp
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How do I cycle through random fonts in Conky via LUA?

This question here seems to tangentially touch upon it but I cannot get it to work. Here is my LUA file: function conky_myeval() local myTable = { " Old London :normal:size=7", "Ethnocentric :normal:size=7"} var1 = myTable[ math.random(…
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Disabling minimize feature in qml

Is there a way prevent Qt windows from ever minimizing? I'm trying to build something like conky (Linux) or rainmeter (Windows) with pyside2 and qml (Qt). The effect I'm looking for is a borderless window that stays just above the wallpaper but…
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Cannot read /.conkyrc : Is a directory

I just installed conky which I can run normally. I installed a theme and made a .conkyrc folder in my home directory. When i am trying to run conky I got this message: conky: cannot read /home/.../.conkyrc: Is a directory What is the problem?
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Why is execbar in conky not working with a variable

execbar in conky does not seem to be working properly. So if I do in a bash script (named myscript.sh) # moc or mocp is Music on Console totalsec=$(mocp --info | grep "TotalSec" | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/^ //g' | sed 's/ $//g') cursec=$(mocp --info |…
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Build files from template and add tweaks (turn images into conky configs)

I found very good Pinterest pictures which I want to randomly show on my desktop. I already have a script(s) that randomly call conky configs from a directory. (Then I manually make bash scripts that call from 1 to 3+ conkies at a time) Tried to do…
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Conky/Dzen2 Clickable Areas

I'm trying for the first time to use dzen on my setup, then on the Arch Wiki I came up with the section about clickable areas, to pipe the command into conky and then when I click the text on conky the dzen2 script would show up. But the command on…
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\t in conky shows another character

When I use \t in conky, another character appears on the screen. Here's what I've used: text = 'Uploaded: ' .. conky_parse('${totalup wlp2s0}') .. '\tSpeed: ' .. conky_parse('${upspeed wlp2s0}') And I used cairo_show_text() function to show the…
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display weather forecast data from weather api in conky graph

I would like my conky system monitor to show a time series of rain forecast probabilities as a graph. I request the forecast data via the darksky API and format it to csv with jq like this curl…
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In Conky, how do I convert from Unix time to hours and minutes? (HH:MM)

Given a Unixtime such as 1551996855 (Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:14:15 +0000), how can convert and extract just HH:MM, (22:14)?
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