conky-cards

This conky setup consists of eight individual conky scripts ("cards") which display

• Date and time
• General system information
• Processes (top processes and usage)
• Memory and swap usage
• A "fortune" message from fortune
• Disk usage
• Network usage
• Metadata of the current track playing

Screenshots

Installation

Requirements

Install conky , preferably the package conky-all if in the future you want to use some exotic features
For the mediaplayer "card", you need python3
For the fortune "card", you need fortune
The script uses the following fonts, install them (see Customization if you wish to use your fonts)

• Antipasto Download here
• Open Sans Download here
• Oswald Download here

Copy/Move the contents to a directory of your liking and edit the following files to specify this directory by replacing INSERT_PATH to your directory. e.g. if the scripts are in /home/foo/path/to/my/dir then run

$ cd /home/foo/path/to/my/dir
$ sed -i 's:INSERT_PATH:/home/foo/path/to/my/dir:' mediaplayer_rc launch_all.sh

Now, set launch_all.sh as executable (chmod u+x launch_all.sh) and run it. If you're on Plasma, that's it.

Otherwise, on other platforms you might have to uncomment the sleep line in that script and add the script to your startup applications. If you don't know how, Google is your friend. For non-plasma systems, if after 10-15 seconds, you don't see conky on your desktop, try running:

sed -i -r 's/own_window_type .*/own_window_type normal/' *_rc

Customization

Network

You might want to replace enp0s20u1 in network_rc with the device you are connected to the internet with similarly for the wifi device e.g.

$ sed -i 's/enp0s20u1/enp0s30u1/' network_rc

Media Player

Replace clementine in mediaplayer_rc with the name of your media player (e.g. vlc, or audacious, or spotify).
This should probably just work (after replacement) if the media player you are using implements MPRIS 2.0 (most players do). To customize the output, you might want to see python3 mediaplayer.py --help

Fortune

See man fortune and edit the arguments to the fortune call in fortune_rc

Colors

Each script uses a set of three colors, defined as

• color1 (color)
  Color of the Card heading
• color2 (color)
  Color of the horizontal line stretching from the heading to the right end
• color3 (color)
  Text color
  Here, (color) can be specified using the hexadecimal notation (without the preceding #) or a color name specified in /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
  Examples of legit colors : red, blue, 20efef
  You can change any of the above colors to suit your liking/theme Examples:
  If you want headings in blue, then run

$ sed -i -r "s/color1 = '.*',$/color1 = '#0000ff',/" *_rc

Similarly, you can change the background color of the 'cards' specified by the variable own_window_colour Background opacity is specified by own_window_argb_value (value between 0 and 255)

Fonts

The following fonts are used

• Antipasto Download here
  Font in the which the clock is displayed
• Open Sans Download here
  Font for the general text
• Oswald Download here
  Font for the Cards' headings

Substitue them using sed like above.

Author

Amish Naidu http://amhndu.github.io