Show us your conky

loutch · 2026-03-20 17:54:01

Hello

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Sector11 · 2026-03-21 11:16:19

loutch wrote:

Hello
https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/21/f0/KWf1EKbE_t.png
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Now that's nice!

marens · 2026-03-23 02:54:20

@loutch

I followed your participation in the discussion about sacad (Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader) on another forum.
SACAD is a multi platform command line tool to download album covers without manual intervention, ideal for integration in scripts, audio players, etc.
Since version 3.0, this tool has been completely rewritten in Rust.
https://github.com/desbma/sacad

I didn't try to install it when I was making the radiotray-ng script because it has a lot of dependencies.
However, I now see that I only need the sacad file for integration.

The file can be downloaded here:
https://workupload.com/file/EfujBh3Kc7X

1) Right-click on ~/Downloads/sacad.tar.xz > Extract Here

2) Copy the ~/Downloads/sacad file and paste it into ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG folder

3) Right click on the radiotray_ng script > Copy > Paste

4) Rename the copy to radiotray-ng-sacad

5) open the file ~/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray-ng-sacad and find the lines:

  echo $test1 > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  echo $test2 >> $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover

6) Delete everything below to the end

7) Then add (it should look like this):

  echo $test1 > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  echo $test2 >> $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  
  
  if [[ "$test1" == "" && "$test2" == ""  ]]; then
 
     cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/headphone.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
   
  else

    artist=$(sed -n '1p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
  
    title=$(sed -n '2p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
    
    cover=$($HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/sacad "$artist" "$title" 300 $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg &> /dev/null)
        
    echo $cover
        
       convert $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png  
  
  fi
          
#### Disable conky when you turn off Radiotray-NG
  
  sleep 2
  
  test3=$(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep 'radiotray-ng')
  
  if [[ "$test3" == "" ]]; then
  
     > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  
     radiotray_conky=$(pgrep -a conky | awk '/RadioTray_NG/{print $1}')
  
     kill -SIGKILL $radiotray_conky
     
     cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/headphone.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
     
     > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/image  
    
  fi

Done.

This is my RadioTray_NG conky (I just changed the script to radiotray-ng-sacad).

#${texeci 8 bash $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray-ng}
${texeci 8 bash $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray-ng-sacad}
#${texeci 8 bash $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray-ng-swiss-pop}
#${texeci 20 bash $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/radiotray-ng-getmeradio}
${image $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png -p 0,0 -s 128x128}

P.S.
I mostly listen to old, little-known blues masters and it's hard to find album covers from that era.
Although SACAD uses five different sources, I think the old radiotray-ng script works a little better in my case.
It takes time to check in more detail.

EDIT
Now I see that you already installed sacad.
You can replace the line:

    cover=$($HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/sacad "$artist" "$title" 300 $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg &> /dev/null)

With:

    cover=$(sacad "$artist" "$title" 300 $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg &> /dev/null)

I moved the sacad file to /usr/local/bin.

Last edited by marens (2026-03-23 18:50:40)

marens · 2026-03-24 15:02:40

^ The output of SACAD sometimes contains many warnings and errors because it searches five different sources.
In the version above, I prevented them from showing if you run conky from the terminal.

They are now redirected to the sacad.log file.

Why?

The radio works differently from the player (e.g. Audacious) and sometimes we get ads.
By analyzing the data from the sacad.log file, I can see when this happens and now the not_available.png image reappears instead of the album art.

This is what the part of the radiotray-ng-sacad script looks like from the line 'cover' to the section '#### Disable conky when...'

    cover=$(sacad "$artist" "$title" 300 $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg &> $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/sacad.log)
        
    echo $cover
            
    check=$(cat $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/sacad.log)

    if [[ $check =~ "No cover to download" ]]; then
  
       cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/not_available.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
    
     else
        
       convert $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png  
  
    fi  
  
  fi

          
#### Disable conky when you turn off Radiotray-NG

The radiotray-ng-sacad script now works perfectly if you listen to classic Pop/Rock/Metal/Country... stations.

If you like old, little-known blues masters (like me) or the 'oldies' genre, the radiotray-ng script works better.
Although SACAD searches five different sources, album art is often missing.

The source I use has a large archive of such things and sometimes I myself am surprised by what it can find.

Anyway, enjoy the good music that you like.

loutch · 2026-03-24 19:07:38

Hi guys,

It must be about twenty years since my Conky Oblivion stopped responding to mouse clicks.
Now that my click_audacious is working, I’ve started modifying Met30’s Conkys in version 1.10 and it’s working well.
Here I’ve made a bit of a start on desk1.
Well, as my version of Conky doesn’t support mouse clicks, I now need 2 Conkys + the search script.
Here are a few screenshots with the Conkys I’ve migrated.
1 Just the wallpaper
2 The first Conkys launched
3 The second Conkys launched with a click

Well, the weather isn't great, but just to have something in Conky

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marens · 2026-03-24 20:26:20

Tonight the radiotray-ng-sacad script was successfully tested.

I was listening to the station Classic Rock Hard Radio.

After about an hour and a half (or more), this is the result:

The image headphone.png appears when conky is started:

It only happened a few times that the script couldn't find the right album cover, but the image not_available.png appeared:

The sacad.log file works great.

Warnings and errors can be tracked if there are any.
It's interesting that sometimes there are many warnings (or errors) but SACAD uses five different sources and mostly finds the right album cover.

If not, my script has a solution.

marens · 2026-03-26 14:04:20

RadioTray-NG Conky - Now Playing

This is actually a radiotray-ng script with integrated SACAD (Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader).
Lines test1 and test2 have also been improved (PulseAudio sound server).

radiotray-ng-sacad script:

#!/bin/bash


  test1=$(pactl list sink-inputs | grep media.title | awk -F' - ' '{print $1}' | sed 's/media.title = "//' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//')
  
  test2=$(pactl list sink-inputs | grep media.title | awk -F' - ' '{print $2}' | sed 's/.$//')
  
  
  if [[ "$test1" == "$(sed -n '1p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover)" && "$test2" == "$(sed -n '2p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover)" ]]; then
    
    exit 0
   
  fi  
  
  echo $test1 > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  echo $test2 >> $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  
  
  if [[ "$test1" == "" && "$test2" == ""  ]]; then
 
     cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/headphone.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
   
  else

    artist=$(sed -n '1p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
  
    title=$(sed -n '2p' $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
    
    cover=$(sacad "$artist" "$title" 300 $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg &> $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/sacad.log)
        
    echo $cover
            
    check=$(cat $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/sacad.log)

    if [[ $check =~ "No cover to download" ]]; then
  
       cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/not_available.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png
    
     else
        
       convert $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.jpg $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png  
  
    fi  
  
  fi

          
#### Disable conky when you turn off Radiotray-NG
  
  sleep 2
  
  test3=$(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep 'radiotray-ng')
  
  if [[ "$test3" == "" ]]; then
  
     > $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_cover
  
     radiotray_conky=$(pgrep -a conky | awk '/RadioTray_NG/{print $1}')
  
     kill -SIGKILL $radiotray_conky
     
     cp $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/headphone.png $HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG/album_art.png 
    
  fi

Note *
Don't forget to make the script executable

marens · 2026-03-28 15:08:20

Audacious Stream Script - Now playing

I forgot again that most people use Audacious instead of RadioTray-NG.

The script above can easily be edited for that.
Only a couple of lines need to be replaced:

  test1=$(audtool current-song-tuple-data title | awk -F' - ' '{print $1}')
  
  test2=$(audtool current-song-tuple-data title | awk -F' - ' '{print $2}')

And of course a section that disables audacious-stream-conky when Audacious is turned off:

#### Disable audacious-stream-conky when turn off Audacious
  
  test3=$(ps -A | grep audacious)
  
  if [[ "$test3" == "" ]]; then
  
     audacious_conky=$(pgrep -a conky | awk '/audacious-stream-conky/{print $1}')
  
     kill -SIGKILL $audacious_conky     
      
  fi

Note *
If you create the audacious-stream script in the same folder ($HOME/.conky/RadioTray_NG), you don't need to change the paths.

marens · 2026-03-28 19:32:40

You can listen to the radio with Audacious and get album art:

Winamp style:

marens · 2026-03-31 14:44:20

RadioTray-NG - Now Playing

Replaced the old image not_available.png:

with a refreshed one:

As you can see, I was very creative.

rwyarbrough · 2026-04-04 05:01:55

my conky

My version of an old Analog Machine/steampunk SuperKaramba widget I found long ago that I really liked.

Last edited by rwyarbrough (2026-04-05 03:30:31)

Sector11 · 2026-04-04 22:19:50

OMG! Nostalgic! I recognize a LOT in there!
Thank you!

rwyarbrough · 2026-04-05 02:52:19

Sector11 wrote:

OMG! Nostalgic! I recognize a LOT in there!
Thank you!

Of course! You were a big help in getting me stated in conky... So Thank you!!!

rwyarbrough · 2026-04-05 03:05:51

Original Superkaramba Analog Machine Collection

Reminds me of Frankenstein Laboratory guages!

Analog Machine Collection NetVu Superkaramba widget

I love this depiction of network up and down throughput. I would love to figure out how to "conkytize" it

Last edited by rwyarbrough (2026-04-05 03:28:22)

Sector11 · 2026-04-05 16:50:02

rwyarbrough wrote:

Analog Machine Collection NetVu Superkaramba widget
I love this depiction of network up and down throughput. I would love to figure out how to "conkytize" it

Best I can do it a LUA script, this is originally by wlourf, his blog is still up:
Useful and useless scripts
https://u-scripts.blogspot.com/2010/08/ … dgets.html

Notice what happens when I run

$ speedtest

in a terminal.

https://streamable.com/ut0vei
EDIT: Video will disappear in 48 hours

You see Upand DNSpeed max out and CPU and Mem usage do up a bit as well.

I don't create LUA scripts, I just bend, fold and mutilate them into doing what I want done.

I might have something that works with pointers or hands.
/Conky/LUA/ = 14 subfdirs and 304 files (lus scripts) - I'll check.

Last edited by Sector11 (2026-04-05 16:52:18)

unklar · Today 10:39:38

@Sector11
Hello, my friend.
Check this out on my 'fanless' computer and @Olgmen's Conky.

Error message in the terminal:

conky: obj->data.i 7 info.cpu_count 5
conky: attempting to use more CPUs than you have!

and, it crashes without comment.

sensors says:

 sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +30.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0:        +25.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 8:        +28.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 9:        +28.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 10:       +29.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 11:       +29.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

spd5118-i2c-0-50
Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0000:00:1f.4
temp1:        +33.8°C  (low  =  +0.0°C, high = +55.0°C)
                       (crit low =  +0.0°C, crit = +85.0°C)

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +27.8°C  

iwlwifi_1-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +37.0°C  

nvme-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
Composite:    +29.9°C  (low  =  -0.1°C, high = +86.8°C)
                       (crit = +89.8°C)
Sensor 1:     +28.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)

PC:

inxi -Cxxx
CPU:
  Info: 5-core model: Intel Celeron 7305 bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported>
    arch: Alder Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 464 KiB L2: 3.2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/1100:900 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400
    4: 400 5: 400 bogomips: 11136
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

At the moment I help myself with this (because I don't see any other solution):

${voffset 90}${goto 130}${color ffcc00}${cpu cpu}%
${voffset 10}${goto 100}${execpi 6 sensors | grep 'Core 0' | cut -c16-18 | xargs $HOME/.config/conky/Olgmen7/colorizecore0.sh}°C${color}${goto 150}${execpi 6 sensors | grep 'Core 1' | cut -c16-18 | xargs $HOME/.config/conky/Olgmen7/colorizecore0.sh}°C${color}
${voffset 20}${goto 60}${color ffcc00}ram: $memperc%${goto 170}hdd: ${fs_used_perc /}%
${voffset 20}${goto 107}${font PT Sans:size 14}${time %d.%m.%g}
${voffset 80}

and lua:

equalizer(cr, 'cpu', 'cpu0', 100, 50, CAIRO_LINE_CAP_SQUARE, 140, 160, 100, 1, 1, 0x00cc66, 0.2, 0x66ff00, 1, 0x00ccff, 1, 80, true, 1, true, 0xff0000, 1.0, 40, 10, 75)

equalizer(cr, 'cpu', 'cpu1', 100, 50, CAIRO_LINE_CAP_SQUARE, 140, 160, 100, 1, 1, 0x00cc66, 0.2, 0x66ff00, 1, 0x00ccff, 1, 80, true, 1, true, 0xff0000, 1.0, 320, 10, 75)

your Intel and AMD list: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 503#p50503

Last edited by unklar (Today 11:24:00)

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