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Posted: **Fri May 09, 2008 11:58 am**

greenducky wrote:Hey everyone,

i am kind of new to conky. i would like it to be able to tell me my cpu temps. i donot know how.
i have got a theme that i like and i have pasted it in the .conkyrc file in my home folder and it works fine. well
kind of. for my IP address it just says 0.0.0.0 and for traffic it just says up 0 down 0 it never changes.

if anyone has any good answers that would be cool.

hear is a copy of my .conkyrc file.

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$nodename ${color1}$kernel ${color}up ${color1}$uptime ${color}cpu1 ${color1}${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar 6,40 cpu1} ${freq cpu1}MHz ${color}cpu2 ${color1}${cpu cpu2}% ${cpubar 6,40 cpu2} ${freq cpu2}MHz ${color}mem ${color1}$memperc% ${membar 6,40} ${color}disk ${color1}${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6,40 /} ${color}load ${color1}$loadavg ${color}ip ${color1}${addr ath0} ${color}traffic ${color1}${downspeed ath0}/ ${upspeed ath0}Kb/s ${color}battery ${color1}$battery

For reference:

Conky Variables

http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

For your network traffic, you have ath0? Is that your device for networks??? Normally these are eth0 eth1, wlan0, wlan1, etc???

Do an

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ifconfig -a

Then match the result from your active connection and replace the ath0 with something like eth0 or eth1 or wlan0.

If you don't have eth0 or 1 or similar post the results.

Example:

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ec9140@rec9140-desktop:~/jbidwatcher$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:27:CF:1B
          inet addr:192.168.1.163  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5002603 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:525191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:729834408 (696.0 MB)  TX bytes:168049126 (160.2 MB)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x1080

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:106852 (104.3 KB)  TX bytes:106852 (104.3 KB)

rec9140@rec9140-desktop:~/jbidwatcher$

For network monitoring:

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${addr eth0}    ${color}traffic ${color1}${downspeed eth0}/ ${upspeed eth0}Kb/s

For the CPU temp:

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${acpitempf}

Also look at the list of variables and see if one of them matches a particular sensor on your system and it may be able to provide specific temps from variables specific to that sensor chipset.

Posted: **Sat May 10, 2008 3:02 am**

greenducky wrote:So i open a terminal and then i type conky. whoo hoo it runs it turns on and looks great. i close the terminal and it still works fine.
but as soon as i click on the desktop for any reason it goes bye bye. not when i click on mint menu or the bar or anything else, only
when i click on the the desktop does it go away

The key to this is these settings:

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# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
 own_window yes

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type override

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

I had a similar problem with LM KDE Daryna, unknown if this is gnome compatible, till I used these settings. The key I think is the own_window_type setting, I don't remember what I changed to get it quit doing exactly what you describe, but this works with one exception.

I just can not get transparency to work, I only get a black background.

If I change to a setting that allows for transparency then the desktop icons disappear.

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