Conky

This is how my Conky setup looks like. No idea where I snatched the original .conkyrc file, but it looked nice so I copied it and made some minor adjustments to it. Wallpaper is from Interfacelift

Still using Ubuntu 8.10, never got around upgrading to 9.04 and now the 9.10 is out. Apparently you cannot upgrade 8.10 directly to 9.10, so I think I'll make a clean 9.10 install in few days, clean installations always work better. …

 Here's my .conkyrc:
 
 # Use Xft?
 use_xft yes
 xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=8
 xftalpha 0.8
 text_buffer_size 2048
 
 # Update interval in seconds
 update_interval 1
 
 # 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
 own_window_transparent yes
 own_window_type override
 #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 0
 #maximum_width 200
 
 # Draw shades?
 draw_shades no
 
 # Draw outlines?
 draw_outline no
 
 # Draw borders around text
 draw_borders no
 
 # Stippled borders?
 stippled_borders 0
 
 # border margins
 border_margin 5
 
 # border width
 border_width 1
 
 # Default colors and also border colors
 default_color white
 #default_shade_color black
 #default_outline_color white
 own_window_colour white
 
 # 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
 # same thing as passing -x at command line
 gap_x 15
 gap_y 50
 
 # 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
 
 # Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
 override_utf8_locale yes
 
 # Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
 use_spacer none
 
 # ${font Webdings:size=16}~${font}  Battery: ${battery_percent BAT0}% ${alignr}${battery_bar 8,60 BAT0}
 
 TEXT
 SYSTEM ${hr 2}
 ${voffset 2}${font OpenLogos:size=16}${font}   OS:      ${alignr}Ubuntu Linux 8.10
 ${voffset 2}${font OpenLogos:size=16}${font}   Kernel:  ${alignr}${kernel}
 ${font StyleBats:size=16}${font}   CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu1 8,60}
 ${font StyleBats:size=16}${font}   CPU2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 8,60}
 ${font StyleBats:size=16}${font}   RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
 ${font StyleBats:size=16}${font}   SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60}
 ${font StyleBats:size=16}${font}   Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}
 
 HD ${hr 2}
 ${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}${font}   ${voffset 1}Home:
 ${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home}
 ${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}${font}   ${voffset 1}TV:
 ${fs_free /media/TV}/${fs_size /media/TV} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /media/TV}
 ${font Pie charts for maps:size=6}${font}   ${voffset 1}S400:
 ${fs_free /media/S400}/${fs_size /media/S400} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /media/S400}
 
 
 NETWORK ${hr 2}
 ${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
 ${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 C22F2F DA3F3F}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font}   Down: ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 C22F2F DA3F3F}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font}   Uploaded: ${alignr}${totalup wlan0}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font}   Downloaded: ${alignr}${totaldown wlan0}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}Z${font}   Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan0}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan0}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font}   Ip: ${alignr}${addr wlan0}
 ${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
 ${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 C22F2F DA3F3F}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 C22F2F DA3F3F}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Uploaded: ${alignr}${totalup eth0}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Downloaded: ${alignr}${totaldown eth0}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Ip: ${alignr}${addr eth0}
 ${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
 ${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 C22F2F DA3F3F}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 C22F2F DA3F3F}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Uploaded: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Downloaded: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}
 ${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font}   Ip: ${exec wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'}
 ${endif}${else}
 ${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font}   Network Unavailable
 ${endif}
 
 DATE ${hr 2}
 ${alignc 35}${font Arial Black:size=26}${time %H:%M}${font}
 ${alignc}${time %A %d %Y}