Questions tagged [conky]
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X that displays information on your desktop.
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Gnome get list of tray notifications
Is there a way to get notifications from tray?
My ideas is print with bash notifications to conky.
I use Archlinux and gnome.
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Conky opens several instances
I've been using conky for a couple of months already in several of my machines and I've noticed that in almost all of them it runs a bunch of instances, literally seeing the conky process all over the ...
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Can Conky display detailed information without being specifically configured to my current hardware?
I'd like Conky to display things like the usage of each CPU core, but I don't see a way to do this other than by manually writing a Conky config file which explicitly enumerates which cores I'd like ...
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Conky - Set own variables
How can i set own variables inside the conky config?
I want to define some own variables and then output they per echo.
I tried a lot but unfortuanly i don't know how to handle that.
Maybe someone can ...
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rss weather for Mexico in conky
I want to show the weather for my location, Ensenada, BC, Mexico on conky.
I have tried the following script:
#!/bin/sh
METRIC=1 #Should be 0 or 1; 0 for F, 1 for C
if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo
echo "...
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How to configure a conky file?
How can I change the conky theme? I have the text(code) for conky vision but I have no idea what to do with it, or where to put it? I'm running Linux Mint btw
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file names with space character in conk configuration
I am trying to load an image in Conky (running under Linux), where the image has got space characters in its path. like this:
${execp echo "\${image \"$(qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc /org/mpris/...
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Allow unprivileged user access to specific privileged files
I have a system running hardened Gentoo and I have installed Xorg, Fluxbox, and Conky together to create a minimal window manager desktop. Within this system I have 2 main users, root and my normal ...
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How do i use conky in i3 to make a custom widget to show rss feeds
I want to create a widget in my i3 desktop homescreen that shows rss feed. So far i have only been able to do it in the bar. I am thinking about trying conky and make it execute everytime i open i3.
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Using cat in conky_parse doesn't work
I'm trying to show the name of my shell in conky. I can capture the name of the shell using this command:
cat /proc/$$/comm
But when I use this in my script.lua file, like this:
text = 'Shell: ' .. ...
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How remove conky manager from Linux Mint
I would like to ask how to completely remove conky manager from Linux Mint.
I used the following script link and sudo apt-get --purge remove conky conky-all but unsuccessfully
Thank you
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conky causes xorg high cpu usage - ati/radeon acceleration issue
I'm running debian jessie and lately switched from fglrx video driver to free ati radeon driver. I've managed to set it up but I've noticed xorg is causing high CPU load: 30-50%.
Googling a little bit,...
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how to display right-to-left languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu) in conky?
I don't mean alignment of the text within conky. If I enter the text in conky, the letters are displayed in the wrong order. If you look at the text and you look at the output, the order is all wrong. ...