SandSux / SciFi_Conky_HUD

SciFi_Conky_HUD

Conky is a free system monitor tool for the X window system on Linux. It is able to monitor many system varaibles including CPU status, swap space, temperatures, disk usage, processes, network interfaces, battery status and a slew of others and then display the information on your desktop. It is also capable of displaying time, calendars, weather and more.

Enjoy & Cheers!

You can grab the latest release from github

Screenshots

Documentation

The GitHub Wiki is the central hub for all of Conky's documentation

Dependencies

• Conky-all package with LUA support and Cairo bindings.
• Openweathermap API Key
• jq
• lm-sensors
• hddtemp

Installation

First and foremost we need to obtain the conky-all package

sudo apt install conky-all

You can also visit GitHub's Conky Wiki for more Installation options and information

Next, we need to install a few dependencies that did not come with our 'conky-all' package that we are going to need to get all these configs to run.

Install JQ

JQ is a lightweight, command line JSON processor. If Aptitude (apt) can't find it in your existing repositories, you may need to add the line manually to your sources.list file More information

1. Run:

sudo apt update

2. Install jq:

sudo apt install jq

Install & Configure lm-sensors

In order to populate neccessary sensor data and achieve functionality with this script, we need to install and run lm-sensors

1. Install lm-sensors on Ubuntu or Debian Linux

sudo apt install lm-sensors

2. Next, run sudo sensors-detect to find and configure sensors, then follow the prompts by responding "yes" to all. At the end of detection, lm-sensors will write out all detected sensors so that Conky can access the data. You can test the general function after configuration by running the command sensors

Install hddtemp

sudo apt install hddtemp

Optional

If you wish, you can Install Conky Manager, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool for those who prefer not to work in the command line

+ Add the neccessary repository: 

`sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa`

+ Update: 

`sudo apt-get update`

+ Install Conky Manager: 

`sudo apt install conky-manager`

Configuration

1. Acquire this repository:

git clone https://github.com/SandSux/SciFi_Conky_HUD.git

2. We need to relocate all of our conky files from this repo into a folder called .conky (The period indicates that this is a hidden file).

   • Create a directory in your home folder so that all of the paths in the configuration files link the .lua, .png, etc. files correctly.

     cd && sudo mkdir ~/.conky

   • Note: [CTRL + h] toggles hidden files from view

   • Move all of the contents of your cloned repository SciFi_Conky_HUD into your new ~/.conky directory

     mv ~/SciFi_Conky_HUD/* ~/.conky/

   Note: The asterisk denotes ALL file types/extensions within a directory

3. Openweathermap API - visit OpenWeatherMap to sign up for your API key

• You will also need to find your City_ID here. (Use [CTRL+f] to search page) or use the included city_list.txt file (it's the same list as the linked one).

3. Included in this repo is a file named "conky_start" which we need to issue a chmod command to in order to make it executable:

   chmod 755 conky_start

   • Move the 'conky-start' script into you home directory (your path) so that it can be executed directly from the command line without changing directories:

   mv ~/.conky/conky_start /home/<USER>/conky_start

4. Now conky can be started by issuing the command:

   ./conky_start &

5. Next, some values need to be changed in a couple configuration files so that they reflect your system hardware interfaces.

   • Pick your favorite text editor and open the net.rc file. (i.e. Atom, Sublime, Pluma, etc.)
   • In net.rc towards the bottom there are a few lines where you will enter the designator for your wireless adapter interface marked as <YOUR_WIFI_INTERFACE>. If you are unsure what your wireless interface is called, run ifconfig to display a list of your network interfaces. It will likely be wlan0 or something to the effect of wlp**0.
   • Next, there is a path that we need to update in /lua/circle_anim.lua located on line 4 called IMAGEPATH. Update that path to reflect that of your system and you will have a working lua clock rings configuration.
   • Finally, there are some paths in the hdd.rc file that need to be changed to reflect your system on lines 59, 60, and 63

6. Open your weather.rc file and enter your openweathermap API_KEY and your CITY_ID

7. Autorun at start:

   • Commands can be run at login by placing a launcher in the ~/.config/autostart or by adding an entry to your 'Startup Applications' gui

Changes

• Compiled documentation and wrote README.md
• Translated all Hungarian comments to English
• Changed UTF-8 character encoding from Hungarian to en_US.UTF-8 on line 67 of weather.rc

See README_Add-Animation.md for general instructions on adding your own animated image to the desktop configuration. Also included is a small collection of gif images to get you started in /images/SAMPLE-gifs

API Reference

For the weather.rc configuration, you are going to have to obtain an API Key from OpenWeatherMap in order to populate your weather data. For referrence, API stands for "Application Programming Interface." The API key is a code passed in by computer programs calling an application programming interface (API) to identify the calling program, its developer, or its user to the Web site. Simply, it is a way to pull specific data from a web service to be used in a third-party fashion.

Contributors

I found the original script on the KDE Store. It was written by a Hungarian developer who did a spectacular job, though there was no documentation, README and all of the in-line information in the configs was written in Hungarian.

License

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