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Questions about Conky, the lightweight system monitor application.

From their website:

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.

Conky is highly customizable. A typical look:

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Documentation

Documentation for using Conky can be found on its website.

See also

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Is it possible for Conky to display Time in words and not in numbers?

I want to have Conky display the time using words and not numbers. What I want to do is more or less how the Pebble Watch looks (Red watch). Like in the image, even if only the time and not the date can be shown. Is this possible?
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strange conky background behavior

I have created a custom conky showing weather forecasts in 3 cities like this: But recently I've begun to see a strange behavior. After a few seconds, a white background a bit larger appears underneath like this: I've attempted to overcome this…
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Conky does not starting automatically after boot

In start up applications I already given a command to start Conky automatically after boot.But it does not starting after boot automatically.I have to manually start it every time.Please help.
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Conky forecast F C output

Temp: ${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=01104 --imperial datatype=HT} This what I have and it shows the right temp but it says 25° AF. Any help or hints appreciated And as allways TYAVMIA
Donald Dorn Jr
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How to use a variable inside a variable in conky

I have a file when the line 15 has the full path to an icon. That said, I want to display that icon using the ${image} variable: ${image myImage.png -p 0,10 -s 50x50} To get the line value, I would use sed: ${exec sed -n '15p'…
Eduardo Fernandes
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X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) when runing Conky

When Trying to run conky with a custom configuration I get the following output: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 55 (X_CreateGC) Serial number of failed request: 98 Current…
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Conky: Grabbed text has multiple lines and does not align

I'm grabbing the output of u1sdtool --cur to be reported in my conky. The output is: u1sdtool --cur Current uploads: 0 Current downloads: 0 This text is grabbed in the TEXT part of my conkyrc config file as: ${goto 55}${font…
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How to add space between value and unit in Conky

My Conky currently displays following with ${mem} and ${memmax} variables: Mem: 3.63GiB / 15.2GiB I want it to look like: Mem: 3.63 GiB / 15.2 GiB Is this possible with some configuration?
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Getting Conky to run?

I am running xubuntu 12.04 and was wondering how to make conky run, and how to configure it how I like. Is there a GUI to do this or is there a config file I need to edit? To install I ran sudo apt-get install conky Is there something else I need…
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GPU temp in conky

How do mesure gpu temp in conky. Found this code: ${voffset 7}${goto 40}${voffset -4}Gpu: ${font Droid Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${execi 60 nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp | perl -ne 'print $1 if /GPUCoreTemp.*?:…
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Conky harmattan is surrounded by the previews wallpaper

This is an amazing eye-candy but I'm facing a problem. I installed it in my Ubuntu 13.10 64b but Conky is surrounded by a a black box, but it's not a black box at all is the previews wallpaper I had setup. If I change the WP then the 'black' box…
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Possible to automatically display the correct days of the week?

I'd like to tweak my Conky so it automatically displays the days of the week correctly. So for example, if TODAY were Tuesday, it would look like this: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday [etc.] And then tomorrow, automatically, it would look like…
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How do I change the font size in Conky?

I was wondering how to change the size of ALL the fonts to a bigger size. Also under cpu usage I have 2 numbers one is white like U want it and the other is green and I can't figure out how to change just that one to white. I have pasted my conkyrc…
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Conky Manager Installation Problem

I've done sudo apt install conky-all cp /etc/conky/conky.conf ~/.conkyrc sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa sudo apt update and then; sudo apt install conky-manager I get; Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree …
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Conky New Line Problems

I have the following conkyrc use_xft yes xftfont profont:size=8 override_utf8_locale yes update_interval 1 total_run_times 0 own_window yes own_window_type panel own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager border_inner_margin…
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