i have used conky with fluxbox, looks great

i'll post my scripts with screenshot aswell in a bit

o2smartphone wrote:

good information, now learning to alter the default look.

but first, I start it with conky, how do I stop it ?

if in your .conkyrc you have a line which is something like:

background yes

then this will mean that conky is running in the background.  when you type conky, and hit return, does the command prompt return? If it does, then your conky is running as a background process.

In this case, to kill it, you can do:

killall conky

this saves having to look up the process id using

ps -ef | grep conky

and killing that way.

don't know about setting a hotkey for it, but how often would you want to kill it anyway?
Why not keep it running in the background?  It is very light on system resources (and can be made to be even lighter by setting the update_interval to a higher value).

I took Tristan Green's conkyrc from this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … count=1007 and modified it to my liking and the eee. 

Edit: Bah, preview distorts.  Click here for screenshot: http://quaggaspace.org/eee/eee-conky.png

And the conf file is here if anyone likes: http://quaggaspace.org/eee/conkyeee

Edit (another one): The conf file for the wireless is setup to use wlan0 as that is what the new madwifi-ng uses.  If you're using this on the classic Xandros it is called ath0.  Do a find and replace in your favorite text editor to switch them out. 

In vi (the Very Intuitive editor) that would be a :s%/wlan0/ath0/g

Last edited by quagga (2008-01-04 7:29:03 pm)

Whoo-hoo!   I got the temperature to read out once I added acpitemp to /etc/modules.

Thanks again,

Jerry

This looks cool, I use Conky on my desktop (gentoo linux). I think I'll try it out here, but to keep it simpler. Thanks for the info about the temperature readings!

I've just setup conky, working great. I'll share my config file (very simple, doesn't use much screen space) when I get home (in a cyber cafe at the moment), I'm just wondering how to start conky when KDE starts up. In Gentoo I have a small script that runs one or two things at startup, but I'm not sure what's the best way to go about it here in Xandros?

I use ${wireless_essid ath0} it returns ${wireless_essid }, how is that ?

# .conkyrc    2008/01/09

#update intervals
update_interval 3.0

# Use xft
use_xft yes
xftfont Sans:style=normal:size=8

maximum_width 270
alignment top_right
default_color white

# not all text in uppercase
uppercase no

TEXT
$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine
$color $stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Uptime:$color $uptime $alignr${color lightgrey}Load:$color $loadavg
${color lightgrey}CPU: $color ${freq} Mhz $alignr${color lightgrey} Usage:$color $cpu% 
$color${cpubar}
${color lightgrey}Battery: $color ${battery}
${color lightgrey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar}
$color $stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Processes:$color $processes ($running_processes running)
$color $stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}ath0 Signal $color${linkstatus ath0}% $alignr$color${addr ath0}
$color${wireless_essid ath0} $alignr$color${wireless_link_bar ath0} 
${color lightgrey}eth0: $alignr$color${addr eth0}
${color lightgrey}Down:$color ${downspeed eth0} k/s $alignr${color lightgrey}Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color lightgrey}Temp: $color${acpitemp} C

Last edited by o2smartphone (2008-01-09 11:31:32 am)

I have the same issues with ESSID values in my IP section of my file. 

Thanks for the tip on version.  I'll check, but I think the ultimate question is "are you still running the original Xandros OS"?  If you say "yes, and it all works for me", well I'll be surprised.  I think most who have had success are running gentoo or xubunto or something.

I suspect the variables you're querying aren't loaded.  At least that's how I got my cpu temp to work, was by adding thermal to my modules file.

Re the wireless device of aht0, yes, I know I'm using the right variable, as i got the IP address to get posted right. 

Thanks for the effort.

Jerry

Here's my simple conky config, I'm using the default xandros OS with KDE (advanced desktop). It works really nice with a white backround.

# maintain spacing between certain elements
use_spacer no

# set to yes if you want tormo to be forked in the background
background yes

use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
#xftfont Vera-9:size=7
#xftfont Andale Mono-9
#xftfont Clean-8
xftfont cubicfive10:pixelsize=10
#xftfont squaredance10:pixelsize=14
#xftfont swf!t_v02:pixelsize=10

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window no
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_hints below

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 180 5
maximum_width 200

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no # amplifies text

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border widt5
border_width 4

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #ff9900
default_color grey90
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color DarkGrey

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 4
gap_y 2

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT

${color #203ca6}System ${hr 1}
  ${color #ff9900}cpu usage ${color #ff9900} $alignr $cpu%
  ${color #ff9900}cpu temp ${color #ff9900} $alignr ${acpitemp}
  ${color #ff9900}memory $alignr $mem/${memmax}
      ${color #203ca6}${membar}

${color #203ca6}Wireless ${hr 1}
  ${color ff9900}down ${color #ff9900}${downspeedf wifi0} ${color ff9900}k/s ${alignr}${color ff9900}up ${color #203ca6}${upspeedf wifi0} ${color ff9900}k/s
  ${color ff9900}total down: ${totaldown wifi0} $alignr total up: ${totalup wifi0}

${color #203ca6}File System ${hr 1}
  ${color #ff9900}root  ${color white}${fs_free /} (${fs_free_perc /}%) ${color #ff9900}free of ${fs_size /}
       ${color #203ca6}${fs_bar /}

If wireless isn't working make sure you have compiled conky with wireless support.  I tried the version in std repositories -- no joy.  Tried compiling my own 1.4.9 no joy.  Finally compiled with ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wlan and it works like a charm.