Crunchbang introduced me to conky, and I love it. Here’s my conky config. It doesn’t use any plugins, or extensions so feel free to simply copy-paste and save this to your conky rc.
# Conky sample configuration # # the list of variables has been removed from this file in favour # of keeping the documentation more maintainable. # Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes
# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 5x7
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 9x15
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Andale Mono:size=9
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8
# Print everything to stdout?
out_to_console no
# MPD host/port
# mpd_host localhost
# mpd_port 6600
# mpd_password tinker_bell
# Print everything to console?
# out_to_console no
# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0
# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0
# 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 desktop
# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent no
# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here
own_window_colour black
# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 200 5
maximum_width 285
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders yes
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 2
# border margins
border_margin 4
#Transparency Settings
own_window_argb_visual true
own_window_argb_value 160 ##transparency maximum:255(no transparency), minimum:0(full transparency)
# border width
border_width 1
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color red
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment none
# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 12
gap_y 30
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2
# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2
# Shortens units to a single character (kiB->k, GiB->G, etc.).
short_units yes
# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale no
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none
# Shows the maximum value in scaled graphs.
show_graph_scale no
# Shows the time range covered by a graph.
show_graph_range no
# Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
#max_port_monitor_connections 256
# Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns, etc.
#max_specials 512
# Maximum size of buffer for user text, i.e. below TEXT line.
#max_user_text 16384
# Timing interval for music player thread, e.g. mpd, audacious
#music_player_interval (update_interval is default)
# Strictness of if_up. One of: up, link or address. The later ones imply the further ones.
# Defaults to up.
#if_up_strictness address
# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
TEXT
$nodename ${alignr}$sysname $kernel
$stippled_hr
${color DarkOliveGreen1}CPU Intel Q6600 ${offset 20} ${alignr}Speed: ${freq} MHz
${color}Uptime:$color ${alignr}$uptime
${color}Processes: $processes ${color DarkOliveGreen1}Running:$color $running_processes ${alignr}Load:$color $loadavg
${color}Core 1: ${color DarkOliveGreen1}${cpu cpu0}% ${color #cc2222}${cpubar cpu0 5}
${color}Core 2: ${color DarkOliveGreen1}${cpu cpu1}% ${color #cc2222}${cpubar cpu1 5}
${color}Core 3: ${color DarkOliveGreen1}${cpu cpu2}% ${color #cc2222}${cpubar cpu2 5}
${color}Core 4: ${color DarkOliveGreen1}${cpu cpu3}% ${color #cc2222}${cpubar cpu3 5}
${color red}${cpugraph 0000ff 00ff00}
${color}Name PID CPU% MEM%
${color DarkOliveGreen1}${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey}${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey}${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
$color$stippled_hr
${color DarkOliveGreen1}Memory
${color}RAM: $mem/$memmax ${alignr}${color DarkOliveGreen1}$memperc% ${color #cc2222}${membar 5,100}
${color}Mem usage PID ${alignr}MEM (%)
${color DarkOliveGreen1}${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${alignr}${top_mem mem_res 1} (${top_mem mem 1})
${color lightgrey}${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${alignr}${top_mem mem_res 2} (${top_mem mem 2})
${color lightgrey}${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${alignr}${top_mem mem_res 3} (${top_mem mem 3})
${color}File systems:
${exec df -h | grep "/dev/sd" | awk '{ printf "%s of %s \t : %s\n", $5, $2, $6 }' }
Root disk I/O: ${diskio /dev/sdb1}
${color red}${diskiograph /dev/sdb1}${color}
$stippled_hr
${color DarkOliveGreen1}Network${alignr}${color}IP: ${addr eth0}
Down:${color DarkOliveGreen1}${downspeed eth0}/s (${totaldown eth0})${color}${alignr}Up:${color DarkOliveGreen1}${upspeed eth0}/s (${totalup eth0})
${color DarkOliveGreen1}${downspeedgraph eth0 32,135 ff0000 0000ff} ${color DarkOliveGreen1}${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 32,135 0000ff ff0000}
${color DarkOliveGreen1}Port(s)${alignr}#Connections
${color}Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr} All: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${color DarkOliveGreen1}Inbound Connection ${alignr} Local Service/Port$color
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 0}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 1}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 2}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 3}
${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 4} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 4}
${color DarkOliveGreen1}Outbound Connection ${alignr} Remote Service/Port$color
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 0}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 1}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 2}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 3}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 4} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 4}
Result: My conky screenshot.
Fonts used are Andale Mono, just follow this link
