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