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    Minimal horizontal Conky bar for Lubuntu / OpenBox with Auto-Hide


This is my conky setup on Lubuntu 13.10 and is approx. 1366 pixels wide. It stays hidden until the mouse reaches the top of the screen. It contains:

Cpu usage.
Memory usage.
Swap usage.
Uptime.
Space available on disk.
Cpu temp (10 sec delay).
Active Cpu scaling governor (10 sec delay).
Battery percentage.
Local weather temperature.
Wlan status.
External ip adress (30 minute delay)
Updates available in apt-get (1 hour delay).
Network Up / Down speed.

Openbox settings


~/.conkyrc

#avoid flicker
double_buffer yes

#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window  yes
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type dock
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_title conky

#borders
draw_borders no

#shades
draw_shades no

#position
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
alignment top_left
stippled_borders 0

#behaviour
update_interval 3

#colour
default_color ffffff
#default_shade_color 000000
own_window_colour 000000

#font
use_xft no
xftfont terminal:pixelsize=10

#to prevent window from moving
use_spacer yes
minimum_size 1366 0

temperature_unit celsius

TEXT
Cpu: ${cpu}% Mem: ${mem} Swap: ${swap} | Up: ${uptime_short} | Root: ${fs_free /} | Temp: ${execi 10 echo -n "$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp | sed -r 's/000$//')""c"" $(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor)"} | Battery: ${battery_percent}% | Skavsta: ${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ ESKN temperature 60}c | Updates: ${execi 3600 apt-get --just-print upgrade | grep -oP '\b[0-9]+ upgraded,' | sed -r 's/[^0-9]//g'} | My ip: ${execi 1800 echo -n "$(curl -s "http://www.telize.com/ip")"} | Wlan: ${wireless_essid wlan0} ${wireless_bitrate wlan0} | VPN:  ${downspeed tap0} / ${upspeed tap0}

Keyboard shortcut to Always show / Auto-Hide

You'll find the settings for this command in ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml
<keybind key="C-W-adiaeresis">
  <action name="ToggleDockAutohide"/>
</keybind>