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Conky Configuration

Hi I have two questions regarding conky:

1) On my bar, I include the following information about upload and download:

Code:

${color} Net: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${downspeed eth0}  ${totaldown eth0} ${color} downloaded ${color e0e0e0}  | ${color e0e0e0}${upspeed eth0} ${totalup eth0} ${color} uploaded

This works great but obviously does not display any information if I am using wireless (which I use about half the time). Is there anyway of coding it so that it checks if I am using eth0 or wlan0, instead of always eth0 (maybe look at ifconfig and see what's being used)?

2) My conky runs as a horizontal bar at the top of the screen. Sometimes the end of it gets cut off, however, even though it's only using 80% of screen width. Is there anyway to adjust this? Here is my entire .conkyrc

Code:



#avoid flicker

double_buffer yes



#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys

own_window  yes

own_window_transparent yes

own_window_type desktop

own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager



#borders

draw_borders no

#border_inner_margin

#border_outer_margin



#shades

draw_shades yes



# Stippled borders?

stippled_borders 8



# border width

border_width 1



#position

gap_x 0

gap_y 0

alignment top_middle



#behaviour

update_interval 1



#colour

default_color  8f8f8f



#default_shade_color 000000

own_window_colour 262626



#font

use_xft yes

xftalpha 0.8

xftfont bauhaus:pixelsize=10

override_utf8_locale yes



#to prevent window from moving

use_spacer right

minimum_size 1268 0



#mpd

mpd_host localhost

mpd_port 6600



TEXT

CPU: ${color e0e0e0}${font} ${freq}Mhz   ${cpu}% ${cpubar 7,50} ${color} ${color e0e0e0} ${execi 30 acpi -t | head -n 1 | cut -c 16-19}°C | ${color} Mem: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${mem} ${membar 7,50}  |  ${color} Root: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${fs_free /} ${color} Home: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${fs_free /home} | ${color} Mpd:  ${color e0e0e0}${font}${mpd_smart} | ${color} Up: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${uptime} | ${color} Battery: ${color e0e0e0}${battery} | ${color} Net: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${downspeed eth0}  ${totaldown eth0} ${color} downloaded ${color e0e0e0}  | ${color e0e0e0}${upspeed eth0} ${totalup eth0} ${color} uploaded

Thank you in advance!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ipozya (Post 4280541)

Hi I have two questions regarding conky:

1) On my bar, I include the following information about upload and download:

Code:

${color} Net: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${downspeed eth0}  ${totaldown eth0} ${color} downloaded ${color e0e0e0}  | ${color e0e0e0}${upspeed eth0} ${totalup eth0} ${color} uploaded

Insert a conditional ${if_up eth0} code ${endif} then
add another line substituting wlan0 for eth0 with another conditional ${if_up wlan0} code ${endif}

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ipozya (Post 4280541)

2) My conky runs as a horizontal bar at the top of the screen. Sometimes the end of it gets cut off, however, even though it's only using 80% of screen width. Is there anyway to adjust this?

How big is your screen?

Try adjusting

Code:

#to prevent window from moving

use_spacer right

minimum_size 1268 0

maybe you can add

Code:

maximum_width 1680

just below the above set to whatever your screen width is.

Thank you for your response. I edited the config to read as follow:

.conkyrc

Code:

${color} Net: ${color e0e0e0}${font}${if_up eth0}${downspeed eth0}  ${totaldown eth0}${endif}${if_up wlan0}${downspeed wlan0}  ${totaldown wlan0}${endif} 

${color} downloaded ${color e0e0e0}  | ${color e0e0e0}${if_up eth0}${upspeed eth0} ${totalup eth0}${endif}${if_up wlan0}${upspeed wlan0} ${totalup wlan0}${endif} ${color} uploaded

The conky bar now has 4 numbers each for downloaded and uploaded (2 for wlan, 2 for eth0), instead of only displaying the relevant one.

Could this be because ifconfig still displays eth0, lo and wlan0, so it thinks that the interface does exist?

EDIT: Solved the wlan0/eth0 issue. I had to add a line to the file:

Code:

if_up_strictness address

This checks that an interface has an ip address before it is considered up.

I am still having issues with the length of conky across top. I added the maximum_width and it did nothing. Still cuts off and only uses ~80% of screen width