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Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X that displays information on your desktop.

Conky supports displaying operating system stats, mailboxes, audio players and others.

Documentation: Conky - Documentation
Example configurations: Conky - Screenshots

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conky: proper column alignment

Say I want something like the following in my .conkyrc NAME PID CPU% MEM% ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} …
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Tell Conky to update from a separate process

I have Conky display my current volume with ${exec bash /path/to/script/getvolume.sh}. However I have noticed that after changing the volume, I have to wait a while for Conky to update. Is it possible for me to write another script changevolume.sh,…
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Adding spacing around text in Conky?

I've created a pretty awesome layout in Conky for my desktop machine. I'm unfortunately having a hard time trying to add padding to the text on the right to separate the right side of the text from the right border. Here's my…
Naftuli Kay
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Creating Conky text variables with zero padding?

I've got a strange issue with my Conky setup: What I'm looking to get rid of/fix is the fact that my CPU percentages (using ${cpu cpuX}) won't seem to pad properly. I'd like all values to be aligned vertically so that statuses never wiggle. Here's…
Naftuli Kay
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What's the right way to display system sound volume in conky?

What's the right way of displaying system sound volume in conky ? I don't have /dev/mixer file, and without an external command, is it possible ? Conky 1.9.0
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Can't use Noto Color Emoji with Conky

I have a config file with this text ... # Weather ${color orange}Weather ${hr 2}$color ${execpi 3600 ~/.conky/Chau/weather.lua}]]; Here is the weather.lua The output contains an emoji and it is displayed correctly in text editor as well as…
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Can Conky perform basic maths nativly?

I would like to perform basic, arbitrary maths without writing a lua function for it. One (non-working) example might be: ${${loadavg 1}*100)}% If this were possible then many other uses might be imagined.
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How to set conkys window width?

I use the following .conkyrc: The key Question: How can I set the window width, so that I could have a wider "window" for my stuff? background yes use_xft yes xftfont Terminus:size=8 xftalpha 0.8 update_interval 3.0 total_run_times 0 double_buffer…
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conky execi doesn't execute on startup

In my .conkyrc file I use some shell-scripts and call it via {execi}. The problem is it doesn't execute these scripts on startup, e.g. get_public_ip.sh doesn't need to get called every 30 seconds like the get_cpu_temp.sh, so I use: {exceci 3600…
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Conky: round ${top cpu 1}

I have ${top cpu 1} that show me for example 13.34. Is it possible to round this to 13?
Vitaly Zdanevich
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Limit the length of the output of "rss" command in conky

I'm running conky with desktop RSS. Is it possible to limit the max length of its title? I have something like this in my config: ${rss XXX 30 item_title 4}${goto 600}${rss YYY 30 item_title 4} So it would be crucial that the first rss title won't…
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What does Conky update interval update and how to tune it?

As I understand, conky_update reloads the whole conky window every time. So, if I have rss fetching there and some scripts running they all rerun every few seconds. Is this right? Can I make the rss fetching part be very infrequent (say, every 10…
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{exec} cause Conky to stop

I wanted to add mpd informations to my conky and therefore I created a script which role is to get the cover from ID3 tags This script is called using the {exec 'path'} command My probleme is that since I added this feature, my conky refuses to…
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Conky above full screen

I would like to run an instance of conky on top, that is, to always be visible. I tried to use own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_class conky own_window_transparent no own_window_hints…
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how to set the border color of graphs in conky

I'm trying to set the border color to grey in my conky cpu graph, but I can't figure out the way to do this & how the colors are specified, I'm not doing it right. Using the following (the color I set for the border is color2) only gives a light…
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