CONKY-COLORS by helmuthdu

Now it's easy to customize your desktop!

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

CONKY-colors is an easier way to configure Conky.

This conky script support multilanguage:
Bulgarian, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian

How to install
Go to a terminal and type:
$sudo apt-get install aptitude python-keyring python-statgrab ttf-ubuntu-font-family hddtemp curl lm-sensors conky-all
$sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
$sudo sensors-detect #answering Yes (default) to all questions, even that last one that defaults to No

Now restart your session

Download and extract the conky-colors.zip and type in terminal in the same directory that has been extracted.
$make
$sudo make install
$conky-colors {options}

$conky-colors --help [for help]

Ex: if your cpu is quad-core and you want the noble color, with hd, network and pidgin monitor and all in portuguese
conky-colors --theme=gnome-noble --lang=en --cpu=4 --network --hd=default --pidgin

For a working photo widget you need to specify a file or directory in conkyPhoto or conkyPhotoRandom script in ~/.conkycolors/bin/

Update your font cache:
$sudo fc-cache -v -f

+++ Kaivalagi's Scripts (Included in conky-colors) +++
Conky SSL Mail Script: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph…
Conky Pidgin Script: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph…
Conky Rhythmbox Script: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph…
Conky Banshee Script: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph…
Conky Exaile Script: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph…
+++ If you can, say thanks to him for this great work +++

in terminal type conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc.

To run conky at startup, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications, click "Add" and add the path to the conkyStart file[/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyStart]

that's all folks!

OPTIONS FROM THE SCREENSHOT:
conky-colors --cpu=2 --calendar --photord --clementine=cd --hd=default --network --theme=wise
conky-colors --sls --weather=brxx0043 --theme=orange
conky-colors --cairo --cpu=2 --clock=cairo --network --theme=blue
conky-colors --ring --network --theme=red
conky-colors --slim --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=white --weather=brxx0043
conky-colors --board --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=cyan

KWON PROBLEMS:
Lua/bash scripts work with conky 1.8.1, but most of the python scripts still doesnt;
SLS MODE only work with lm-sensors configured
The position of the photo and cover may be wrong bc in ubuntu the space between the widgets is different from Archlinux

HELP WITH CONKY:
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph…

REPORT BUGS:
github.com/helmuthdu/conky_col…

Changelog:
9.0
* Complete new icon set, replaced most of the fonts with the new conkycolors font family;
* Widgets review;
* Refactory all hd scripts to use python 3;
* Many, many, many bugfixes;

emilniemi Featured By Owner Nov 23, 2013

When I do that command though, it does show up on desktop, a black background with white ugly text with information of my computer. And when I click somewhere on desktop it disappear.

DaHag Featured By Owner Nov 22, 2013 General Artist

Brilliant work! Thank you for sharing!

gsruthin Featured By Owner Oct 30, 2013

rocking dude , btw how to set bottom one ?

rlolachi Featured By Owner Oct 30, 2013

Thanks for all your hard work on this. Perhaps I'm being very foolish but following your examples in the instructions I can successfully run all modes except "slim" when running on Ubuntu 13.10 (AMD64) with Conky 1.9.0 Whenever I try to run the slim mode the only thing that appears is the digital clock and load of the same error about Yahoo Weather, which I don't understand as it works perfectly in other modes.

ramin@EMD-E6:~/Downloads/Apps/conky_colors$ conky-colors --slim --w=1200 --h=800 --theme=white --weather=brxx0043
Your conkyrc was copied to /home/ramin/.conkycolors
Generated configuration files are copied to /home/ramin/.conkycolors

To run conky-colors and conky type:
conky -c /home/ramin/.conkycolors/conkyrc
ramin@EMD-E6:~/Downloads/Apps/conky_colors$ conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrcConky: desktop window (2600006) is subwindow of root window (242)
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x6000002)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyYahooWeather: 22: /usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyYahooWeather: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "fi")
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: /usr/share/conkycolors/scripts/conkySlim.lua:37: assertion failed!
/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyYahooWeather: 22: /usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyYahooWeather: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "fi")
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: /usr/share/conkycolors/scripts/conkySlim.lua:37: assertion failed!
...
[Keeps repeating same error until terminated]
...

Am I doing something wrong here?

liyincc Featured By Owner Sep 17, 2013

Hello everyone
liyin@liyin-Satellite-L700:~$ cd conky_colors
liyin@liyin-Satellite-L700:~/conky_colors$ make
cc -Wall -std=c99 src/conky-colors.c src/conkycover.c src/conkyplayer.c src/conkyrc_cairo.c src/conkyrc_ring.c src/conkyrc_board.c src/conkyrc_default.c src/conkyrc_slim.c src/conkyrc_sls.c src/coverposition.c src/finddir.c src/help.c src/options.c src/photoposition.c src/themes.c src/translations.c src/variables.c src/confinstall.c src/utils.c src/initialize.c -o conky-colors
src/options.c: 在函数‘options’中:
src/options.c:234:4: 警告：格式字符串不是一个字面字符串而且没有待格式化的实参 [-Wformat-security]
src/options.c:234:4: 警告：格式字符串不是一个字面字符串而且没有待格式化的实参 [-Wformat-security]
src/themes.c: 在函数‘themes’中:
src/themes.c:141:4: 警告：格式字符串不是一个字面字符串而且没有待格式化的实参 [-Wformat-security]
src/themes.c:141:4: 警告：格式字符串不是一个字面字符串而且没有待格式化的实参 [-Wformat-security]
liyin@liyin-Satellite-L700:~/conky_colors$
I hope someone can help me look. Thanks in advance.

tetractis Featured By Owner Jul 15, 2013

good work!

murilo-cwb Featured By Owner Jun 10, 2013

conky-colors {options}

shows
Wrong option. {options}murilo@murilo-laptop:~/Download/conky_colors$

GreenGasMaskGuy Featured By Owner Jun 22, 2013

In {options} you have to put the options which are explained in the option --help --> "conky-colors --help"
An example for the default one can be:
./conky-colors --lang=es --theme=wise --ubuntu --cpu=2 --cputemp --swap --updates --proc=10 --clock=modern --calendar --nvidia --hd=mix --hdtemp1=sda --network --weather

EXX0011

Shad-Wolf Featured By Owner Jun 7, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Very nice setup for conky and nice way to setup and customize.

After trying this out and testing it, I can't quite seem to get it to configure correctly. For the --hd=<default|meerkat|mix|simple> setting it only displays HD space for root, and not the ones for my home directory /home/<user>/ because it's only displaying for root, and it doesn't seem to matter what setting I put the HD to it doesn't change to display both.

also the --network setting doesn't seem to do anything, it's not displaying it anywhere on the conky output. I even tried just doing --wlan=0 for wireless interface but that doesn't show up on the output at all. I dunno if I have to do it like --network --wlan=0 ?

thinkswithportals Featured By Owner May 25, 2013

Having a problem...
I put in all the commands you asked and restarted the session, opened up a terminal and put in my directory and got a result of: "bash: /home/jamietaliaferro/Downloads/conkystuff: Is a directory". Is that supposed to happen? Also, I decided to keep going and put in make, but got "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." Did I do something wrong? Your config looks great though. Good work.

abdobelk Featured By Owner May 6, 2013

HI

I followed your instructions for installing conky-colors in ubuntu 13.04, there some problems :
- sometimes it does not start as the computer starts up
- it's always in the first background, eclipsing any other window, I have to open .conkycolors/conkyrc , save it again so it's "re-rendered" and back to background
- some icons are not displayed, the ubuntu distro logo, the hard drive & the network
- sometimes conky colors gets a weird background color, mostly gray
- the network section displays no info, gives the message "network unavailable", even so I'm connected to a Wi-Fi, even right now that I'm writing this message
I've been using conky colors for almost 2 years, none of this bugs occurred when I was using it with ubuntu 12.04 and bellow, these bugs I reported occurred in ubuntu 12.10 and ubuntu 13.04

I hope this message could help you to improve conky colors

neonoafs Featured By Owner May 10, 2013

Mine is working gr8 with Ubuntu 13.04. The only option I had to change is own_windows_type from "override" to "normal".

abdobelk Featured By Owner May 25, 2013

I changed the own_windows_type from "override" to "normal", but still some bugs, icons missing, opaque background, network not working, here is a screenshot :

[link]

paperclipbadger Featured By Owner Jun 3, 2013 Student General Artist

The missing icons is probably due to a problem with fonts. The ones being used that aren't showing up are Webdings and Weather.

biominimalist91 Featured By Owner Apr 13, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

thank you so much!

dambros Featured By Owner Mar 24, 2013

First of all amazing work, can´t thank you enough.

Can you explain me how can I move the cover image a little bit down? The cover is over the Status word for me (Im also on Arch).

Thanks!

Flash858 Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2013

Thanks for all the hard work. This is the best implementation of Conky I have seen along with Pwidgets in Puppy. One issue I am having is that random photo script stopped working and it is stuck on a single image. I have deleted the temp file, removed the folder and reloaded to ensure that when I reloaded conky colors that the image was blank, then changed the folder and while it loads an image, it no longer rotates.

Also, is there a way to speed up the sequence? I'd like the image to change every 10 seconds or so.

Thanks again!

helmuthdu Featured By Owner Jan 15, 2013

Try to check if you have imagemagick installed in your computer;
Check if the path to the image directory is correcty in your ~/.conkycolors/bin/conkyPhotoRandom file;
Idk what can be besides those 2 things

, it's working as expected here...

helmuthdu Featured By Owner Jan 15, 2013

Okay, after some tests it fail to display sometimes... i try to check this...

Android-808 Featured By Owner Jan 12, 2013

I've added a bug report so I don't forget and will try looking into it one afternoon next week.

Report available here:[link]

jimsarcade Featured By Owner Nov 10, 2012

The download link is for conky-colors 8.0. Where can we find the latest version (8.1.1)?

Android-808 Featured By Owner Dec 8, 2012

Latest version always here: [link]

jimsarcade Featured By Owner Dec 15, 2012

Thank you very much! That solved many of the problems I was having.

shuli81 Featured By Owner Nov 5, 2012

Hi, I'm having the same issue as ~neonoafs (few posts below).
some of the icons dont display properly. most likley due to a font issue. i'm using ubuntu 12.10 32bit.

Here's a screenshot
[link]

Android-808 Featured By Owner Dec 8, 2012

Problem is most likely due to upgrade to fontconfig 2.10. Some of the fonts needed re-encoding to a different format (Unicode-BMP IIRC).

Get version from [link] and regenerate your config file.

happywash Featured By Owner Oct 26, 2012

Hi there,

I extract the conky-colors.zip in a folder named .conkycolors in my home directory
So like this home/mario/.conkycolors
The next steps are not working:

$make
$sudo make install
$conky-colors {options}

This is what i see in my terminal:

xxxx@xxxx-System-Product-Name:~/.conkycolors$ $make
xxxx@xxxx-System-Product-Name:~/.conkycolors$ $sudo make install
mkdir -p /usr/share
mkdir -p /usr/bin
cp -v conky-colors /usr/bin
‘conky-colors’ -> ‘/usr/bin/conky-colors’
cp: kan het normale bestand ‘/usr/bin/conky-colors’ niet aanmaken: Toegang geweigerd
make: *** [install] Fout 1

Can somebody help me with this?

Great thanks already.

Mario

neonoafs Featured By Owner Oct 21, 2012

Tried to install on Ubuntu 12.10, but it doesnt show on desktop and it running as a process. Is it compatible with 12.10?

zx900930 Featured By Owner Oct 28, 2012 Student Interface Designer

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, conky-colors works just fine.

neonoafs Featured By Owner Nov 2, 2012

I managed to make it work

. However, the fonts are not showing correctly. Can you share your fonts with me? Im sending a screenshot of the mine for you to see how the icons are (not)working. The green ones are ok, the red ones are not showing

[link]

sidrosao Featured By Owner Sep 28, 2012

Hi all,

just been trying to install and run Conky (conky-1.8.1-6), running Linux Mint 13 cinnamon 32 bits. I first installed conky and then found this tutorial so installed conkycolors later. I managed to configure conkycolors sls, but I have 3 problems:

1. when I try to run conky, I still get the non configured conky on the left hand side of the scvreen (black window, flickering) and also the sls window from conky colors. How do i make it to run only the sls version?

2. I cannot get conycolors to autostart although I have added it to the startup programmes (/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyStart)

3. I have a partition that is not showing on conkycolors. It shows me ROOT and HOME as separate drives but they are one and the same. how to delete one of them and add my other partition?

many thanks for your help. I will try and resolve point 2 by looking at previous entries but any tip would help!

m

shuli81 Featured By Owner Aug 9, 2012

hey, nice job on the new version. I just upgraded. The only issue I have is with the icon next to the hdtemp. It now shows a big Y instead of the little thermometer. Must be some issue with the font used for that symbol.

GabrielWayneL Featured By Owner Jul 17, 2012

Download file missing??

xanahopper Featured By Owner Jul 11, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I cannot download the file, Why?!!

Alba-Jimenez Featured By Owner Jun 15, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hello there! Before all, thanks a lor for making this!

I'm pretty new on this. I'm using Linux Mint Debian Edition with Xfce, my sources list is the LMDE offical one for testing. The versions of conky and conky-all are the 1.8.1-6. I have enable compiz with its basic pluggings and cairo-dock.

I did allwhat you say here, this is the configuration I make for the default mode ./conky-colors --lang=es --theme=ambiance --xfce --cpu=1 --cputemp --swap --proc=3 --clock=digital --calendarm --hd=default --photord --clementine=case --pidgin --limit=3 --gmail --user=albaforlifetime --passwd=******** --bbcweather=3530597

*I had a problem with getting conky in a black square. I solved the transparency issue than KDE and Xfce have adding this line own_window_argb_visual yes on the .conkyrc document.

My main trouble is than after --calendarm everything goes messed up, the calendar just doesn't show up, the photord only shows the space it uses but no pictures, the case from clementine overlaps the HD part, pidgin just shows up the tittle and the weather overlaps itself.

I'm not sure about the photord configuration... I did it like this
source="/alba/Imágenes/Conky"
photo="/alba/Imágenes/Conky/lando_color.png"
template="/usr/share/conkycolors/icons/ConkyPhoto" ... I'm not sure what one has to do with the template line

And then in the terminal I get this Conky: your exec value is not between 0 and 100, therefore it will be ignored" and I don't understandpretty much what that means.

So... well... Any ideas of what is going on?

helmuthdu Featured By Owner Jul 11, 2012

Wich version of conky is yours? It doesnt work well with conky 1.8.1 (its a bug with conky). Remove the clementine, pidgin options. (pidgin was also dropped in this new release, the script got useless with recent pidgin versions).

Alba-Jimenez Featured By Owner Jul 12, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yup, it was the 1.8.1 version of conky. Half of the many neat custom codes don't work properly under it for what I have tried

But thanks a lot for the reply anyways

I shall better try to make something of my own to work under it.

digitig Featured By Owner Jun 14, 2012

Using
conky-colors --cpu=1 --calendar --photord --clementine=cd --hd=default --network --theme=wise
the result is a mess on my system, with the text and data fields misaligned and overlapping

helmuthdu Featured By Owner Jul 11, 2012

Get the new version of conky-colors, if your conky version is 1.8.1 remove the clementine option.

ahmadmuzakki29 Featured By Owner Jun 8, 2012

So how I get my area id instead of brxx0043?

printesoi Featured By Owner May 15, 2012

very very nice!

neonoafs Featured By Owner May 14, 2012

My photowidget is irregular, how can I solve this?
[link]

Claros12 Featured By Owner May 23, 2012

Same for me. I have to the ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc file.
I go to the widget's line "# - PHOTO - #"
And I edit a part of the last line of the widget "${image /tmp/conkyPhoto.png -s 174x110 -p 4,370}" to get off the photo of 30 pixels, like that :
"${image /tmp/conkyPhoto.png -s 174x110 -p 4,400}"

neonoafs Featured By Owner Jun 6, 2012

Thanks dude. I had to change to 450, maybe why Im using a FHD resolution, I dont know.
[link]

WieAngel Featured By Owner May 4, 2012

angel@ubuntu:~$ conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc
Conky: desktop window (2400095) is subwindow of root window (15d)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x4200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
angel@ubuntu:~$

--------------> how to resolve it? please help me,thanks very much!

shuli81 Featured By Owner May 16, 2012

same here with Ubuntu 12.04

any ideads, anyone?

Android-808 Featured By Owner May 18, 2012

Can you post a bit more detail to try to reproduce the problem. I know of one issue with the conky 1.8.1 including the conky-1.8.1-6 build in Precise, but it doesn't cause seg fault to my knowledge.
32/64 bit?
Conky version?
Parameters passed to conkycolors to generate conkyrc?

Android-808 Featured By Owner May 18, 2012

Also, can you provide network status.

Claros12 Featured By Owner May 23, 2012

Hello !

In my case, I'm using a 64 bits version Ubuntu 12.04. I use conky-all packet v1.8.1-6.
To generate the script, I use this command :
conky-colors --cpu=2 --lang=fr --cputemp --swap --proc=4 --calendarm --network --wlan=0 --hd=mix --clock=digital --calendar --weather=FRXX0076 --unit=C --side=left --theme=tribute --gnome --hdtemp1=sda --photord --updates

Rarely it works. Also in the script generated, the photord is too high and the gmail module doesn't accept special character. To make the gmail module work, I have to add double quote to my password and mail.

Thanks !

Android-808 Featured By Owner May 26, 2012

I'm trying to recreate the bugs mentioned using your parameters but I'm not having much luck at the moment. The only way I can cause a crash is by generating a new config whilst conky is still running. photord is also displaying correctly here without using any modifications.

I'm still leaning to it being an issue with Conky itself on Ubuntu. The changelog @ [link] doesn't suggest it carries any upstream fixes listed here [link] 1.8.1 was tagged 19 months ago! I beleive Helmuthdu, like myself, is running Arch, which has used a snapshot for sometime before the latest 1.9.0 release.

Ubuntu do have a version of 1.9.0 in Universe for the next release, not sure if you could install this and try it.