Conky anyone in Debian Wheezy???

AS ROOT install,
apt-get update && apt-get install conky-all

As a regular user as yourself, here is my .conkyrc file which you can put in your home directory to get started.


background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Sans:size=8
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 200 200
maximum_width 200
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
alignment top_right
gap_x 12
gap_y 12
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

TEXT


Date & Time ${hr 2}
${alignc}${font Arial Black:size:24}${time %I:%M %p}${font}
${alignc}${Time %A %m %d %Y}


${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}SYSTEM ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}$sysname $kernel $alignr $machine
Host:$alignr$nodename
Uptime:$alignr$uptime
File System: $alignr${fs_type}

${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}PROCESSORS ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu1}
CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu2}
CPU2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${cpubar cpu2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu3}
CPU3: ${cpu cpu3}% ${cpubar cpu3}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu4}
CPU4: ${cpu cpu4}% ${cpubar cpu4}

${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}MEMORY ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}RAM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar
${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}DISKS ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}/ $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /}%
${fs_bar /}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}/boot $alignc ${fs_used /boot} / ${fs_size /boot} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /boot}%
${fs_bar /boot}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}/home $alignc ${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /home}%
${fs_bar /home}
SWAP $alignc ${swap} / ${swapmax} $alignr ${swapperc}%
${swapbar}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}TOP PROCESSES ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top mem 1} %
${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top mem 2} %
$font${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top mem 3} %
$font${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top mem 4} %
$font${top_mem name 5}${alignr}${top mem 5} %
${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}NETWORK eth0 ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}IP address: $alignr ${addr eth0}
ESSID: $alignr ${wireless_essid eth0}
Connection quality: $alignr ${wireless_link_qual_perc eth0}%
${downspeedgraph eth0}
DLS:${downspeed eth0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totaldown eth0}
${upspeedgraph eth0}
ULS:${upspeed eth0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totalup eth0}
${endif}
${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}NETWORK eth1 ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}IP address: $alignr ${addr eth1}
ESSID: $alignr ${wireless_essid eth1}
Connection quality: $alignr ${wireless_link_qual_perc eth1}%
${downspeedgraph eth1}
DLS:${downspeed eth1} kb/s $alignr total: ${totaldown eth1}
${upspeedgraph eth1}
ULS:${upspeed eth1} kb/s $alignr total: ${totalup eth1}
${endif}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}NETWORK wlan0 ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}IP address: $alignr ${addr wlan0}
ESSID: $alignr ${wireless_essid wlan0}
Connection quality: $alignr ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%
${downspeedgraph wlan0}
DLS:${downspeed wlan0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totaldown wlan0}
${upspeedgraph wlan0}
ULS:${upspeed wlan0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totalup wlan0}
${endif}
${if_existing /proc/net/route easytether0}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}NETWORK easytether0 ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}IP address: $alignr ${addr easytether0}
ESSID: $alignr ${wireless_essid easytether0}
Connection quality: $alignr ${wireless_link_qual_perc easytether0}%
${downspeedgraph easytether0}
DLS:${downspeed easytether0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totaldown easytether0}
${upspeedgraph easytether0}
ULS:${upspeed easytether0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totalup easytether0}
${endif}

You can run
conky

from a terminal to test this out.

Put conky in your startup applications to make it permanent.

There are millions of other conky scripts you can find on the internet.
I can't live without it.

thanx mate

i'm still yet to get familiar with Conky....