---
title: "My conkyrc"
url: "http://andrewbolster.info/2008/10/my-conkyrc/"
date: "2008-10-27T19:15:00Z"
tags: ["Automation","Linux","Productivity","Ubuntu"]
categories: ["Instructional"]
---

Contents (what you get out of this) Weather, HDDtemp, UL/DL speed and cumulative meters, CPU load, Folding@Home status, Remote transmission download status (could be local, easy change), gmail status, RAM usage, Uptime, Date/Time, ToDo list

These all automatically update dependant on the execi variable.

Preface (What you need to get this all working) Linux OS (Ubuntu?) [Conky](http://conky.sourceforge.net/) (obv, see someone elses guide for how to get that *HINT* synaptic is ur friend) [Transmission](http://www.transmissionbt.com/) download manager (local or remote) Folding at home installed with [origami](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FoldingAtHome/origami) (could be local or remote using the same logic as the Transmission manager) [Passwordless SSH authentication](http://penguinsandcoffee.blogspot.com/2008/10/links.html) (if your using this with any remote hosts) A todo list on the desktop called todo (strange that…)

WARNING I’m lazy so im not telling you why or how this all works. Work it out yourself. I Got alot of the system monitoring stuff from a variety of places (lifehacker i think, my apologies to whoever i stole from).

The Guts (The Guts)

```bash
cat .conkyrc
use_xft yes
xftfont verdana:size=8
alignment top_left
xftalpha 0.8
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
default_color BADCDD
use_spacer none
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
text_buffer_size 512
color1 F8DF58


# ${color 6694B2}${font OpenLogos:size=45} u t

#  ${color F8DF58}${font StyleBats:size=16}8${font}  Battery: ${battery_percent}% ${battery_bar}
TEXT
${color BADCDD}${font weather:size=82}${execi 600 ~/scripts/conditions.sh}${color}${font}${voffset -25}  ${execi 1200 ~/scripts/pogodynka.sh}
 ${font weather:size=28}x ${font}HDD ${execi 1 ~/scripts/hddmonit.sh}�C
 ${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}v${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth1} Kb/s
 ${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}r${font}   Down: ${downspeed eth1} Kb/s
 ${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}M${font}   Upload: ${totalup eth1}
 ${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}S${font}   Download: ${totaldown eth1}
 ${color ffffff}${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}  CPU0: ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0}
 ${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}  CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
 ${font StyleBats:size=16}Y${font}  ${execi 10 origami monitor | awk '/Progress:/ {print $2}' | sed '/%$/N;s/\n/ /' }
${execi 600 ssh REMOTEUSER@REMOTEHOST /opt/bin/transmission-remote -l |sed 's/  [ ]*/\t/g'| awk -F'\t' '/ing/ {print $3,"\t", $9}'| sort -rn}
 ${color F8DF58}${font FreeSans:size=16}@${font}${execpi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail_parser.py GMAILUSER GMAILPASSWORD 3}
 ${color C2E078}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}J${font}   $mem / $memmax
 ${font StyleBats:size=18}P${font}  Work:  ${uptime_short}
${font Radio Space:size=14}${time %A %d %Y}
    ${font Radio Space:size=55}${time %H:%M}
${color F8DF58}${font FreeSans:size=10}${color0}TODO:${color1}
${color F8DF58}${font FreeSans:size=10}${execi 30 cat /home/USERNAME/Desktop/todo}
```

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