For reference: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
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
If you don't have eth0 or 1 or similar post the results.
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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$
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${addr eth0} ${color}traffic ${color1}${downspeed eth0}/ ${upspeed eth0}Kb/s
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${acpitempf}