Monochrome Conky

A collection of graphical conky interfaces to monitor your system.

If you are new to conky, this project's wiki page has helpful guides to show you how to customize the conky configs to your system.

Glass theme

Compact theme

Widgets | small

Built for systems with small screen real state. The resolution below is 1366 x 768 pixels.

Widgets | large

Built for systems with ample screen real state available

Blame theme

Inspired by the killy's heads up display from the anime movie Blame!

Features

Repository package updates

DNF is periodically queried for new packages if the system is iddle.
Slow machines will appreciate this, since a dnf package lookup may bring the cpu to a crawl.

n.b. dnf is specific to fedora linux. If you use a different distro, you will have to update the script to use your distro's package manager.

Network modes

Network devices reflect the way you are connected to the internet.
Depending on your linux distribution, you may need to configure the proper network device name.

Power modes

Different states to show how your laptop is consuming power

USB storage

USB devices are available for you to mix and match to the hardware you have.

These elements are considered optional. Their state will change depending on whether the device is plugged in or not. See the wiki entry for how to configure these devices for your system.

Hard drive i/o

If you have additional hard drives in your system (internal or external), the hard disk i/o conky allows you to monitor read/writes to the disk as well as space usage accross its different partitions.

This conky must be fully customized to your particular setup. Read the wiki for more details.

How to install

Dependencies

You only require to have conky installed on your system.
On Fedora install it by running:

$ sudo dnf install conky

n.b. I recommend using the conky package version 1.11.5_pre
more recent versions may have regressions/bugs (issue 1, issue 2) that cause the theme to behave erratically. Run the command dnf downgrade conky until you arrive at this version.

Configuration

The wiki outlines items that may require configuration in order to customize this conky to your system
If you run a multi monitor setup, you can read on how to configure conky to show on a particular monitor

How to run

Unzip the project's zip file in the folder ~/conky

$ unzip -d ~/conky monochrome-master.zip

Rename the root folder monochrome-master to monochrome

$ mv ~/conky/monochrome-master ~/conky/monochrome

Run the launch script with the theme you want:

Glass

$ ~/dev/tools/conky-monochrome/launch.bash --glass --layout-override desktop

Compact

$ ~/dev/tools/conky-monochrome/launch.bash --compact

Widgets small

$ ~/dev/tools/conky-monochrome/launch.bash --widgets-small

Widgets large

$ ~/dev/tools/conky-monochrome/launch.bash --widgets-large

Blame

$ ~/dev/tools/conky-monochrome/launch.bash --blame --layout-override laptop

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