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These are the particular settings you may need to tweak in order to customize this conky configuration to your particular linux distribution/system.
Each linux distribution follows a different convention for naming their network devices. Even Fedora at some point changed their own convention. Conky requires the name of your wifi and/or ethernet card in order to monitor its usage.
Run the netstat command to find out what your device names are:
$ netstat -i
Iface MTU RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
enp6s0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BMU
lo 65536 27 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 LRU
virbr0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BMU
wlp4s0 1500 10041 0 0 0 7473 0 0 0 BMRUOn Fedora 32, enp6s0 is my ethernet card and wlp4s0 is my wifi.
If you are not familiar with your distribution's naming convention, you can just plug the available values into the conky config until you see the network monitors registering activity for the right device.
Conky disk variables require one these details:
- The device name, ex.
/dev/sdc - The mount point of each partition within the disk, ex.
/media/movies
You can run the df -h command to find these details, below is a simplified output of this command
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 50G 26G 22G 55% /
/dev/sda3 289G 119G 156G 44% /home
/dev/sdc 2.7T 2.1T 541G 80% /media/photos # a partition's mount point under /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc 2.7T 1.1T 1.6T 41% /media/movies # a partition's mount point under /dev/sdcAlternatively you could use gnome disks to get these details.
If your disk has multiple partitions, you will have to add each individual partition entry into the configuration.
USB drives are no different than plain hard drives. The df -h command above will give you their device name as well as their mount points.
Conky uses the linux hardware monitoring kernel API (HWMON) for retrieving the temperature of your devices. Depending on your hardware you may be able to check the temperature of all your devices.
To see what devices you have available, run
$ grep '' /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/name
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/name:ADP1
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/name:acpitz
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2/name:BAT0
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/name:coretempMy cpu is under coretemp in hwmon3, in order to see how many temperature sensors are available run
$ grep '' /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/temp*_label
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/temp2_label:Core 0
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon3/temp3_label:Core 1The ${hwmon ...} conky variable is used to retrieve the corresponding temperature for each device.
For hard drives to show up on hwmon you need to load the drivetemp module
$ sudo modprobe drivetempThis module can be loaded on boot with this command
# echo drivetemp > /etc/modules-load.d/drivetemp.confThe dnfPackageLookup.bash script uses Fedora's package manager dnf in order to query the repositories and check for new packages.
If you use a different linux distribution, you will have to update this script to use your distro's package manager instead.
Lines to change:
- Call to the package manager app to retrieve the new package updates
- REGEX expression used to parse the new packages text file and count the number of new updates
- Optional | specify what special packages you want highlighted
If you run a multi monitor setup, the window compositor that you use (x11 or wayland) will influence on what monitor conky will be displayed.
If you alternate between these two compositors, you may have to change the monitor configuration accordingly. Unfortunately there is no way to "permanently assign" a monitor for conky to use.
The xinerama_head property tells conky on what monitor to show up. Values start from 0, ex. 0,1,2,3.
Depending on the compositor, these values may yield different monitors. You will have to experiment with these values to see what works for your setup.
The launch script allows you to select what monitor you want conky to run on. Just use the --monitor flag, example:
$ ~/conky/monochrome/launch.bash --conky glass --monitor 1This will launch conky on monitor 1
