Conky

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

You can find more information about conky 👉 here

Conky Widget

In this new version, all elements have been adjusted for Manjaro Linux XFCE x64 with Lenovo laptop. Match for 1366x768 screen resolution.

Motivation

The main reason for this repository is to save in one place and thus be able to share some work on the awesome personalization tool named conky

I really liked the design work provided by gvoze32 with the Mainte theme (See here). And I wanted to take this style and apply it to other widgets on my desktop.

Screenshots

Features

Actually the gadgets can do :

Show and Monitor computer metric like fan speed, processor use etc... (Use the awesome conky theme Mainte)
Show local weather (Use the awesome http://wttr.in/ to show the local weather)
Show a little calendar
And much more !

Installation

For those who want to try this conky's themes, here’s a step by step how to setup guide:

1. First of all, open terminal and install conky if you don’t have it via command:

sudo pacman -S conky

you may want to install optionnal package, please refer to the table below

2. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Kosteron/Conky.git

3. Copy all folder to ~/.conky (set hidden file to visible on your file manager cause the folder is hidden) or create this folder if it doesnt exist :

mkdir ~/.conky
mv Conky-master/* ~/.conky

4. Open terminal and type

cd ~/.conky/
./conky-launch.sh

5. Move the font to your font folder :

sudo mv ~/.conky/fonts/* /usr/share/fonts

6. You may have to change some parameters like resolution or position to match your actual linux desktop characteristics. So edit conky-rc file and change this kind of parameter for the position on your screen :

conky.config = {
...
gap_x = 10,
gap_y = 520,
...
};

Edit the conky-launch.sh and uncommet or comment the lines corresponding to the widgets you don't want To automatically run when startup, just add conky-launch.sh to autostart.

Full detail

Name	Dependencies	Description
conky_calendar	calendar	Simple Calendar
conky_clock	✖️	Simple clock
conky_computer_monitor	✖️	Show computer metrics
conky_fortune	fortune-mod	Displays fortune cookie on the desktop
conky_mini_moc_player	mocp, ffmpeg	Display information about the current song listened with mocp
conky_pingbeat	✖️	Simple pingbeat
conky_weather	✖️	Display a lot of information about weather
conky_xfce_workspace_indicator	✖️	Simple workspace indicator
conky_altcoin_monitor	jq & awk	Simple altcoin price indicator

Tweak

The following section details how to modify the widgets to suit your needs.

conkyrc-weather

If you want to change the location of the local weather, please edit the bash script weather-pull.sh and change the following line :

curl "http://wttr.in/aix-en-provence?T&1&Q&F&lang=fr" --silent --max-time 3 > /tmp/weather.tmp

by what you want, for example London :

curl "http://wttr.in/london?T&1&Q&F" --silent --max-time 3 > /tmp/weather.tmp

You can find more parameter and option on the wttr.in Github repository.

conkyrc-pingbeat

don't forget to change the keyword HOSTNAME by the IP address or the domain name you want to monitor.

On the file conkyrc-pingbeat :

${exec if ! $( ping -c1 HOSTNAME &>/dev/null ) ; then echo "Server Offline - `date`" ; else echo "Server Online - `date`" ; fi }

conkyrc-altcoin-monitor

If you want to change the displayed currencies, the script uses the coingecko API to get altcoin information, especially the 'GET /coins/markets' one.

On the file fetch.sh :

#/bin/bash

#curl -X GET "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/list?include_platform=false" -H  "accept: application/json" > list.json

curl -X GET "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/markets?vs_currency=eur&ids=bitcoin%2Cethereum%2Cripple%2Cpolkadot%2Cpax-gold&order=market_cap_desc&per_page=100&page=1&sparkline=false" -H  "accept: application/json" -o currentData.json
cat currentData.json | jq -r '.[] | [.id,.current_price] | @csv' | awk -v FS="," 'BEGIN{print "Name\t\tCurrent Price";print "────────────────────────"}{printf "%s\t%s€%s",$1,$2,ORS}'

Just add after the http parameter &ids= the coin id you want to add to the table separated by a %2C. The following example show only Bitcoin and Ethereum :

GET /coins/markets?vs_currency=eur&ids=bitcoin%2Cethereum&order=market_cap_desc&per_page=100&page=1&sparkline=false

Credits

Many thanks to :

Vector
gvoze32, who inspired me, and where I took the graphic design for the other conky's widgets
- Reddit Thread
- Github repository
Igor chubin
- Github repository

habibtahir/conky