[. It looks good, it’s light, it’s all I need. Nice to bring some of the memory requirements down from Gnome as well.

Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)

own_window true own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar background no

Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)

double_buffer true

fiddle with window

use_spacer right use_xft true

Update interval in seconds

update_interval 3.0

Minimum size of text area

minimum_size 10000 5

Draw shades?

draw_shades yes

Text stuff

draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes draw_borders no uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

Stippled borders?

stippled_borders 8

border margins

border_margin 1

border width

border_width 1

Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5

default_color white default_shade_color black default_outline_color white own_window_colour brown own_window_transparent yes

Text alignment, other possible values are commented

#alignment top_left #alignment top_right alignment bottom_left #alignment bottom_right

Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 10 gap_y 5

stuff after ‘TEXT’ will be formatted on screen

override_utf8_locale no #xftfont Terminus:size=8 xftfont Terminus:size=10 xftalpha 0.8 #Mail:${color}${execi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail.py} TEXT

${offset 0}${color }${time %H:%M} ${color slate grey}${time %Z }Date: ${color }${time %a, } ${time %e %B %G} ${offset 0} ${offset 0} ${color slate grey}Proc:${color} $cpu%${offset 5}${acpitemp}C${offset 5}${cpugraph 16,100 000000 ffffff} ${offset 0} ${color slate grey}Net:${offset 5}${color}Up:${upspeed wlan0}k/s${offset 5}${upspeedgraph wlan0 16,100 000000 ffffff}${offset 0} ${color}Dn:${downspeed wlan0}k/s${color}${offset 5}${downspeedgraph wlan0 16,100 000000 ffffff} ${color slate grey} Power:${offset 5}${color}${battery}

Try it, you might like it - I’ll keep working on it, I’m sure I’ll find more things to add/improve. Conky rocks.