How did I miss this thread??!?
I love conky. I've loved it since back to #!8.10, arguably one of the finest releases ever to be built on Canonical Critters, when the latest development builds of Wine, easy installation of captive video drivers, easy package management, and (otherwise) low overhead were the only considerations on my mind. There's nothing like it for keeping track of whatever you want to know about your system.
I'm of the opinion that your conkies shouldn't take up a whole lot of screen real estate. I originally developed the core of what you see here to work with a 1280x960 WoW window (decorations removed), on a 1280x1024 display. I had to have the RAM meter, cos WoW had memory usage creep, and at least once locked my system by using too much RAM (I disabled swap in order to maintain framerates) And I originally had it at the top, but my kde setup on PCLOS tends to open all my windows up there, so now I keep it at the bottom. Here's the launch script:
#!/bin/bash
killall conky &
sleep 2 &&
conky -d -c ~/conky1rc &
sleep 2 &&
conky -d -c ~/conky2rc &
exit Here's conky1rc, with comments purged: use_xft yes
xftfont DroidSansMono:size=9
xftalpha 1
update_interval 2.0
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_type normal # possible: desktop dock normal override panel
own_window_class conky-semi
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color FFFFFF
default_shade_color FFFFFF
default_outline_color FFFFFF
alignment bottom_right
gap_x 3
gap_y 0
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
color1 9966ff
color2 dd1133
color3 66ff66
# compositor must be enabled
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
# end compositor required items
TEXT
${memgraph 30,150 cccccc 999999}${cpugraph 30,150 3311dd 9966ff}${downspeedgraph eth0 30,150 dd1133 ff3355}${upspeedgraph eth0 30,150 00ff00 66ff66}And conky2rc# save as ~/.conkyrc to make default
use_xft yes
xftfont DroidSansMono:size=9
xftalpha 1
update_interval 2.0
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,above,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_type normal # possible: desktop dock normal override panel
own_window_class conky
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color FFFFFF
default_shade_color FFFFFF
default_outline_color FFFFFF
alignment bottom_left
max_text_width 0
gap_x 0
gap_y 37
minimum_size 450
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
color1 99ffff # 99ffff 3311dd
color2 ff3366 #dd1133 ff3366
color3 66ff66 # 66ff66 007722
# another distro-only required items: compositor must be enabled
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 100
# end another distro-only required items
TEXT
$kernel | up $uptime | swap $swapperc% | ${font DroidSansMono:bold}${time %I:%M%P}${font}
$mem/$memmax $memperc% ${color1}| CPU: ${cpu cpu1}%/${cpu cpu2}%//$cpu% ${color2}| Down ${downspeed eth0} ${color3}| Up ${upspeed eth0}${color}The alternate colors I have commented out get copied and pasted in when I switch to a light or dark background, as needed.
Come on everybody, show us what you've got!