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

Conky supports displaying operating system stats, mailboxes, audio players and others.

Documentation: Conky - Documentation
Example configurations: Conky - Screenshots

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Conky on multiple display?

I have an external display that show the right part of my screen (--right-of option in xrandr), And my conky panel was just gone. (occupies space, but not visible on both display) What I want is the same view of conky, for both my laptop display and…
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conky: proper column alignment

Say I want something like the following in my .conkyrc NAME PID CPU% MEM% ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} …
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Conky - string formatting

I have conky the record: ${color lightblue} Down: ${downspeed wlan0} Up: ${upspeed wlan0} Conky prints link speed, but the text moves: Down: OB Up: OB Down: 60B Up: 60B Down: 148B Up: 148B Down: 1KiB Up: 1KiB Down: 1.8KiB Up: 1.8KiB Down:…
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.conkyrc - how to set real transparency

It's long time I'm trying to fix my .conkyrc configuration file in order to set real transparency. There are many post out there about it, but none of them helped in my case, it seems the solution depends on many factors(windows manager, desktop…
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How to output a date/time as "20 minutes ago" or "9 days ago", etc

I run rsync as a cron job and display the last backup via conky (i.e. "Last backup 2017 05 12 14:22:20"). I would like to display my last backup as "2 days ago" or "4 hours ago", rather than just displaying a static datestamp. Is there any way to…
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How do I pipe notifications into my statusbar?

I am trying to instate a more graphically minimal notification system in Arch Linux. Specifically, I've taken interest with programs such as dzen2 or conky that allow for more text-based status bars. Is it possible to pipe notifications (as in the…
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Increasing conky height

Is there any way to change the height of a conky window? .conkyrc background no update_interval 1 cpu_avg_samples 2 net_avg_samples 2 override_utf8_locale yes double_buffer yes no_buffers yes text_buffer_size 2048 #imlib_cache_size 0 # Window…
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Tell Conky to update from a separate process

I have Conky display my current volume with ${exec bash /path/to/script/getvolume.sh}. However I have noticed that after changing the volume, I have to wait a while for Conky to update. Is it possible for me to write another script changevolume.sh,…
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Adding spacing around text in Conky?

I've created a pretty awesome layout in Conky for my desktop machine. I'm unfortunately having a hard time trying to add padding to the text on the right to separate the right side of the text from the right border. Here's my…
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Creating Conky text variables with zero padding?

I've got a strange issue with my Conky setup: What I'm looking to get rid of/fix is the fact that my CPU percentages (using ${cpu cpuX}) won't seem to pad properly. I'd like all values to be aligned vertically so that statuses never wiggle. Here's…
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Can conky float over maximized windows?

My idea is to use a minimized conky window on the desktop to show basically CPU and memory data all the time. Is this possible with Conky?
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Why are `top` CPU numbers different from those of System Monitor and Conky Process Panel?

When my laptop gets slow for a moment during somewhat heavier processing I expect to see higher numbers (for CPU use) than what I in fact see in the conky Process Panel that I have on the desktop and in the System Monitor. Using top in terminal I…
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Countdown timer in panel

Is there some widget that I can put in the panel of my Xubuntu system that will show me a countdown of time? I've tried pystopwatch, but although it minimizes, it doesn't show me how long I have left. I've also tried xfce timer-plugin, but it…
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What's the right way to display system sound volume in conky?

What's the right way of displaying system sound volume in conky ? I don't have /dev/mixer file, and without an external command, is it possible ? Conky 1.9.0
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Name/Edit/Remove Manjaro i3 Desktop Elements

I have been trying to find the names of these two elements so I can edit/remove them. However, I have failed. What widgets(?) are these and where are their config files? And what placed them on the desktop? EDIT: Thank you, for naming these,…
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