gnome system load Indicator w conky

Hi everybody !

first of all let me thank all you people working on this beautifull and great OS, its fantastic !
I can use my 10 year old ~1.8Ghz / 1gb ram machine as it would be a brand new computer with this. real inovation here.
i hope this is the right thread for this, otherwise pls excuse and move it where it belongs.

So i came from ubuntu to this and i missed the SYSTEM MONITOR / SYSTEM LOAD INDICATOR in the gnome bar.
With a little digging i discovered CONKY and just simply made a little conky script which is nearly the SAME THING what i was looking for.
I thought it may be following the spirit of GNU and all of this to share this, so if someone is looking for the same thing in the future he/she can save time finding this.

What you need to do :

Install Conky :

sudo apt-get install conky

then modify the CONKY.CONF usually located in /etc/conky/conky.conf
with this easy line to have cpu, ram and net activity shown in a graph :

${color black}${cpugraph cpu0 30,50 000000 666666 -t} ${color grey}${memgraph 30,50 999999 CCCCCC} ${color black}${downspeedgraph eth0 30,50 000000 666666 -t}

where u may have to substitute ETH0 and CPU0 to your devices.

of course u can modify all the colors and gradient colors (the hex values) to ur likes.

if u use this with a transparent top-shelf and locate it where u like it could look like this :
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here is my whole conky.conf suitable for a 1600x1200 Desktop :

# 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) 2005-2010 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/>.
#

alignment top_middle

background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color black
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont Ubuntu:size=12

#position from allignment setting
gap_x -590
gap_y 0

minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

# make it transparent, without window decoration and prevent from flicker
own_window no
own_windows_transparent yes
double_buffer yes 


TEXT
${color black}${cpugraph cpu0 30,50 000000 666666 -t} ${color grey}${memgraph 30,50 999999 CCCCCC} ${color black}${downspeedgraph eth0 30,50 000000 666666 -t}

So thats it (-:

best regards, saha (-:

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