Conky and dzen2 examples

Question

Hi,
I want to try dzen2 piped by conky for my minimal system-information-status-bar.
Unfortantly I can find very little information in the internet about this.
I have
out_to_console yes
set in my .conkyrc, but if I type "conky" I see no output.
Do some people have some conky & dzen2 configs thery could share here?
I am also interested in what cool things one can do ...
Thanks!
Nathan

Answer 1

One way to get info here is to search the forums with dzen2 and conky in the keyword search.  You'll need to wade through alot of info but that's the way I figured out what I use now.  I started with http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41118  You'll find that you need to use conky-cli from AUR to pipe output to dzen2.  I use a script that I put in my tiling wm .musca_start file called dzconky which I store in my /home/brian/bin folder:
#! /bin/sh
FG='#aaaaaa'
BG='#1a1a1a'
FONT='-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
conky | dzen2 -e '' -ta c -fg $FG -bg $BG -fn $FONT -x 0 -y 1008
This gives me centred output in dzen2 (-ta c) and puts the dzen2 bar on the bottom of my 1280x1024 display rather than the default top position.
And my .conkyrc used with conky-cli:
background no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
use_spacer none
TEXT
Uptime:$uptime CPU:$freq Mhz ($cpu%) Ram:($memperc%) Disk:/:${fs_used /} /home:${fs_used /home/brian} CPU Temp:${execi 5 echo $(($(cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/k8temp/0000\:00\:18.3/temp1_input) / 1000))C} ${time %a,%b %d/%y %l:%M%P}
Use what you wish or do your own thing.
Edit: spelling
Last edited by bgc1954 (2009-07-04 15:40:09)