Desktop candy for Ubuntu 18.04 with CONKY

Cool system monitor for your Ubuntu desktop

Install croky

sudo apt install conky-all

enable to start at boot

use the bellow code in your etc/conky/conky.conf

and you are treated with a cool desktop monitor

#note: change enp0s3  to your network interface for network traffic to work, if you want wireless add just cut and past the same five lines and change the name and network interface ie. wlan0


remove everything starting with the first line in your conky.conf and replace with this. This my Kali monitor

-- vim: ts=4 sw=4 noet ai cindent syntax=lua
--[[
Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo

Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license

All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL

Please see COPYING for details

Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
Copyright (c) 2005-2012 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
All rights reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
]]

conky.config = {

update_interval = 1,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 2,
out_to_console = false,
override_utf8_locale = true,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
text_buffer_size = 32768,
imlib_cache_size = 0,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 50,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
border_inner_margin = 5,
border_outer_margin = 0,
xinerama_head = 1,
alignment = 'bottom_right',
gap_x = 0,
gap_y = 33,
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
use_xft = true,
font = 'Ubuntu Mono:size=12',
xftalpha = 0.8,
uppercase = false,
default_color = 'green',
own_window_colour = '#000000',
minimum_width = 300, minimum_height = 0,
alignment = 'top_right',

};
conky.text = [[
${color lightgray}${time %H:%M:%S}${alignr}${time %d-%m-%y}
${voffset -16}${font sans-serif:bold:size=18}${alignc}${time %H:%M}${font}
${voffset 4}${alignc}${time %A %B %d, %Y}$color
${font}${voffset -4}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}SYSTEM HP 840 G3 BADSECTOR ${hr 2}
${color lightgray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}$sysname $kernel $alignr $machine
Host:$alignr$nodename
Uptime:$alignr$uptime
File System: $alignr${fs_type}
Processes: $alignr ${execi 1000 ps aux | wc -l}$color

${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}CPU ${hr 2}
${color lightgray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=9}CPU TEMP ${acpitemp}C $color
${color lightgray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${execi 1000 grep model /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d : -f2 | tail -1 | sed 's/\s//'}$color
${color red}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu1 FFFF00 DD3A21 }
CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}$color
${color white}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu2}
CPU2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${cpubar cpu2}$color
${color cyan}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu3}
CPU3: ${cpu cpu3}% ${cpubar cpu3}$color
${color yellow}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu4}
CPU4: ${cpu cpu4}% ${cpubar cpu4}$color

${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}MEMORY 8GB DDR4 ${hr 2}
${color gray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}RAM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar
SWAP $alignc ${swap} / ${swapmax} $alignr ${swapperc}%
${swapbar}$color

${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}DISK USAGE ${hr 2}
${color gray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}/ $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /}%
${fs_bar /}$color

${font Ubuntu:bold:size=10}WIRED NETWORK ${hr 2}
${color lightgray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Local IPs:${alignr}External IP:
${execi 1000 ip a | grep inet | grep -vw lo | grep -v inet6 | cut -d \/ -f1 | sed 's/[^0-9\.]*//g'} ${alignr}${execi 1000 wget -q -O- http://ipecho.net/plain; echo}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Down: ${downspeed eth0} ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} $color
${color blue}${downspeedgraph eth0 20,130 } ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 20,130 }$color
${font Ubuntu:bold:size=10}WIRELESS NETWORK ${hr 2}
${color lightgray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Local IPs:${alignr}External IP:
${execi 1000 ip a | grep inet | grep -vw lo | grep -v inet6 | cut -d \/ -f1 | sed 's/[^0-9\.]*//g'} ${alignr}${execi 1000 wget -q -O- http://ipecho.net/plain; echo}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Down: ${downspeed wlan0} ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed wlan0}$color
${color red}${downspeedgraph wlan0 20,130 FFFF00 DD3A21 } ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 20,130 FFFF00 DD3A21 }$color

${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}TOP PROCESSES ${hr 2}
${color lightgray}${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Name $alignr PID CPU% MEM%${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}
${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}% ${top mem 1}%
${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}% ${top mem 2}%
${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}% ${top mem 3}%
${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}% ${top mem 4}%
${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5}% ${top mem 5}%
${top name 6} $alignr ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6}% ${top mem 6}%
${top name 7} $alignr ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7}% ${top mem 7}%
${top name 8} $alignr ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8}% ${top mem 8}%
${top name 9} $alignr ${top pid 9} ${top cpu 9}% ${top mem 9}%
${top name 10} $alignr ${top pid 10} ${top cpu 10}% ${top mem 10}%$color
]];