This is my personal conky configuration It is largely based on the work of others, particularly this remake of a fairly popular conky setup. I changed quite a few things though.
The PHP script to fetch the weather is gone and replaced with an compiled D version with more
features. The executable darksky-d (available from the releases page) should run on any modern
64bit Linux as there are no dependencies other than standard libraries. If it does not, you will
have to build it yourself from source.
Use darksky-d --help to see the options. Make sure, you specify at least the API key. By default,
darksky-d outputs to stdout so redirect to >weather. Also by default, it uses metric (si) units, but
there are options to output imperial units.
Note the shot shows the version I use, it's compact, some lines are missing but you can easily add
memory and swap information by un-commenting them in conkyrc. Same is true for "per CPU" load
values.
Everything is supposed to live in $HOME/.weather. You can change this, but then you have to edit
conkyrc and change the line template0 = "$HOME/.weather/weather"accordingly. The file weather
must be available for conky to pick up the data. To generate this file run darksky-d
periodically via a cronjob. Conky itself does NOT fetch anything from the net, it just reads
$HOME/.weather/weather and displays no weather when this file is missing or not readable.
Make sure, darksky-d has write access to $HOME/.weather (or the directory you put it into)
You must tell darksky-d the latitude and longitude of your current position. Use the --loc
parameter for this and --help will give you an example. Obtaining the location from geoclue2 is
currently a TODO item. This is saved in the configuration file in $HOME/.config /darksky-d/config.json until a different location is given.
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Generic system overview (CPU, RAM, swap, uptime, temperatures)
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Time and date, including week number and local timezone
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3 lines of world time. You can easily change the zones you want to display, check the relevant section in conkyrc around line 100. * A fairly comprehensive weather report, including dew point, pressure, wind, visibility, a three day forecast and sunrise/sunset times. You need a darksky API key to fetch the data. Darksky is free for 1000 requests per day, which should be enough if you update the weather every 30 minutes or even more often.
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A program written in D to fetch data and do some conversions when asked to do so. By default, it always fetches in si units (Celsius, m/s, km and so on), but you can instruct it to convert into imperial units. Run
darksky-d --helpto see usage information.
- A D Compiler to compile the darksky client. I recommend DMD or LDC, but both are ok.
- A darksky account and an API key. Free, but you have only 1000 API requests per day in freebie mode, which should be sufficient to update the weather every couple of minutes.
Obviously, you need that and you need a recent version (1.10 or later) with lua and cairo support. On
Ubuntu-based distros, this is just a matter of installing conky-alland you should be all set.
- The OpenLogos Font (only used for the Kernel version line)
- The Style Bats Font (the icons for CPU load, temperatures, swap, memory...)
- The Conkyweather Font
- The Weather Icons Font
There are quite a few things to change,
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In the system section you may want to comment out the individual CPU load graphs. Since I do not care about these, I prefer to have only one load bar.
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Also, I have commented out the Kernel version, I usually know which kernel I'm running :)
You'll find this around line 90 in the conkyrc:
${voffset 5}${font Weather Icons:size=12}${color cc5050} ${color}${font} ${voffset -3}GPU temp: ${alignr}${nvidia temp}°
This only works with the proprietary nvidia drivers. If you use nouveau, you'll have to change the
last part to something like ${hwmon 1 temp 1} to get the GPU temperature.