Great Conky in the shape of a circle or ring

About Conky we have talked a lot here in DesdeLinux, however we are still surprised by some scripts and 'art' that can be achieved with it.

They say that an image is worth a thousand words, so I better leave you a screenshot so that you can see what I mean:

This configuration of Conky displays the following (in order from outside to inside):

• Week number of the year
• Day of the month
• Weekday
• Month
• Clock
• Vertical temperature bars
• Rings that show more or less the empty space that we have in the partitions

Installation of Conky and lm-sensors

To have this, we must first install several packages:

On ArchLinux or other distros that use pacman:

sudo pacman -S lm-sensors
yaourt -S conky-lua

On Debian, Ubuntu or derivatives:

sudo apt-get install conky-all lm-sensors

In addition, we must configure appropriately lm-sensors, for this we execute:

sudo sensors-detect

Then select YES in each dialog that it shows us, including the end that asks us if we want to add the sensors to the modules that are loaded automatically (/ etc / modules)

To finish with lm-sensors in Ubuntu or similar we execute:

sudo service module-init-tools restart

Although it is also enough to restart the computer.

To check that the sensors are working properly run sensor in the terminal and it should appear something like this:

Conky configuration file

Then, when we have everything installed (conky included) and configured the sensors, let's go on to download the very attractive configuration for Conky that we just saw:

Download configuration for conky-lua

A file called 163748-calendar_extra.zip which we must unzip, and we will see that a folder appears called: calendar_extra

Inside this folder we will find two files, lua_widgets.lua y Start_conky

We must edit lua_widget.lua, on the line that says number_of_physical_CPU_cores We put the amount of CPUs that our computer has. How to know the quantity? ... well, run this command if you have doubts about how many CPUs your computer has:

lscpu | grep core

Further down (in that same file) we find that we can specify the video card, as well as whether or not we want its temperature to be shown. Since I don't want it to show any temperature of the graphics card, I put: enable_graphic_card_temperature_sensor = "No"

Well, we have finished editing what is necessary, now we open a terminal in that same folder (folder that contains these two files that I am talking about) and execute:

conky -c start_conky

This will be enough for the conky that you saw in the image above to appear on the desktop.

Customizing Conky

Changing conky things is very simple, in this one it is relatively easy as well. For example, if you want to change the color of the text you should edit the file start_conky and right at the end, you find this line:

$ {color FFFFFF}

FFFFFF means white, 000 is black, etc. They are the colors that we use in CSS or HTML, they can be supported by Gimp if you don't know about this.

Check that file, also the other one (lua_widget.lua), that if you want to make something NOT be displayed (like the outer ring, week of the year) you should delete the corresponding lines.

Add to top

Conky it won't start automatically on your username, if you use KDE you can use the method that I explained in this post to add it to startup programs, if you use Gnome3 you can check this other article.

Basically you can add the applications to the login, assuming start_conky is found in / home / user / Downloads / start_conky then it would be: conky -c / home / user / Downloads / start_conky

The end!

Conky It is undoubtedly an excellent, excellent option to personalize our desktop. It supports scripts in lua, python, etc., it consumes very, very little, so we can use it in large environments (KDE, Gnome, Unity, etc.) as well as in other more minimalist ones. This added to some very light dock (w bar for example). We can also add a calendar to add our events, for example rainlendar2 (that I have pending to make a post about him), through Conky we are aware of the system, through the calendar we are aware of events such as , anniversaries, doctor visits, taking our pills of any kind (pressure pills, diet pills of those that have read somewhere, or for the nerves, yes, for example I should take my pills that control the nerves, otherwise I go out there psychopathic style killing people ... HAHAHA).

If you want more conky configurations that you can review and apply with simple clicks I recommend Conky Manager. For more information or news of this conky configuration visit the page at KDE-Look.org

Anyway, I hope it has been of interest to you.

regards