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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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Restarting conky when it fails

I am using this using until to restart a process to monitor and restart a conky instance. But when it redraws it draws over the previous instance without wiping it first. So how do I get it to clean the screen and then respawn the conky instance.…
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Network Programming in C for name of running process for established connection

I am new to C network programming. I am trying to code a patch for my conky to display something like "netstat -pan --inet". Conky's inbuilt tcp_mon to not include process name. Initially I did this using netstat and awk but my script got a…
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sed: can't read /home/me/weather: No such file or directory

I have the following extract from a script that fetches weather information from accuweather: wget -O ./weather_raw $address if [[ -s ./weather_raw ]]; then egrep 'Currently|Forecast<\/title>|_31x31.gif' ./weather_raw > ./weather sed -i…
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Network output not working in LUA script -- Conky

For those familiar with Conky, this should make a bit more sense. I am trying to get the following Lua script to actually display its values for the 'NET' ring. I know that the code works outside of the script in Conky itself because running conky…
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Share your conky tips / scripts / .conkyrc

I've just started tinkering with conky, and I'm hoping the StackOverflow crowd can share some of the cool things they've done with this tool. Scripts and .conkyrc files specifically geared towards developers would be especially good to see. Some…
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Is there a way to make `membar` and `fs_bar` have gradient colors in conky?

Is there a way to make membar and fs_bar have gradient colors in conky? What I exactly need GREEN when the usage is low, YELLOW when mid-range, and RED when there is high usage of memory and disk space.
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Debian conky installation

I messed up in conky installation. Conky is installed on computer but terminal says: conky is already the newest version (1.10.6-1). but when i write conky in terminal bash tells me: bash: conky: command not found. I've deleted some conky files too…
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conky: how to refresh the display values?

why conky duplicates the display after every minute as the picture
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