Simple Conky configuration PlainConky

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 by Frank Lazzarini

Hey you all out there, today I want to show off my very simple but nice conky setup that I use on my Laptop. The layout is fairly small to match the resolution of my laptop's monitor. The configuration uses only conky functions and uses the fonts Terminus and AvantGardeLTMedium. For those that don't know what conky is head over to the conky website or check out these awesome configurations here or there. But if you want to have a simple setup something to start off with I suggest you start using mine and adjust it to your liking.

It features visualizing things such as CPU Usage, Temperature, Memory Usage, current ip address depending on which device is up, if wlan is up information on that device is shown, if eth0 is up that information is shown, Disk Usage, and General Date/Time information.

plainconky.conf

use_xft yes
xftfont Terminus:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_class conky-semi
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
background no
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 300 200
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
default_bar_size 150 5
default_gauge_size 20 20
imlib_cache_size 0
draw_shades no
alignment top_right
gap_x 5
gap_y 35
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
default_color ECEAE4
color1 9f907d
color2 01C400


TEXT
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Tan1}Info ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Date               ${alignr}${color slate grey}${time %a,}${color}${time %e %B %G}
${color1}Time               ${alignr}${color}${time %T}

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Tan1}System ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Hostname           ${alignr}${color}${nodename}
${color1}${sysname}         ${alignr}${color}${kernel}-${machine}
${color1}CPU                ${alignr}${color}${freq_g}GHz
${color1}Loadaverage        ${alignr}${color}${loadavg 1} ${loadavg 2} ${loadavg 3}
${color1}Uptime             ${alignr}${color}${uptime}
${color1}Battery Status     ${alignr}${color}${battery_short BAT1}
${color1}Cpu Temperature    ${alignr}${color}${acpitemp}C
${color1}Hdd Temperature    ${alignr}${color}${hddtemp /dev/sda}C

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Tan1}Processors ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Core 1             ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu1}%  ${cpubar cpu1}
${color1}Core 2             ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu2}%  ${cpubar cpu2}

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Tan1}Memory ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Memory             ${color}${alignr}${memeasyfree} / ${memmax}
${color1}Currently          ${color}${alignr}${memperc}%   ${membar}

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Tan1}Filesystem ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}/                  ${color}${alignc}${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} ${color}${alignr}${fs_free_perc /} %
${color}${fs_bar 5,300 /}

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Tan1}Networking ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}${color1}Ip     ${color}${alignr}${addr wlan0}
${color1}AP                 ${color}${alignr}${wireless_essid wlan0}
${color1}Signal             ${color}${alignr}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}${wireless_link_bar 10,100 wlan0}
${color1}Download           ${alignr}${color}${downspeed wlan0}${downspeedgraph wlan0 10,100}
${color1}Upload             ${alignr}${color}${upspeed wlan0}${upspeedgraph wlan0 10,100}
${color1}Total Down/Up      ${alignr}${color}${totaldown wlan0}${color1}/${color}${totalup wlan0}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}${color1}Ip       ${color}${alignr}${addr eth0}
${color1}Download           ${alignr}${color}${downspeed eth0}${downspeedgraph eth0 10,100}
${color1}Upload             ${alignr}${color}${upspeed eth0}${upspeedgraph eth0 10,100}
${color1}Total Down/Up      ${alignr}${color}${totaldown eth0}${color1}/${color}${totalup eth0}${endif}${endif}

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Tan1}Top Processes ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}${top name 1}  ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color1}${top name 2}  ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color1}${top name 3}  ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color1}${top name 4}  ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color1}${top name 5}  ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}

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