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BNeo

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Registered: 2024-07-03

Posts: 20

Conky font size for mem and CPU

How do I change the font size for the mem display and the CPU display ?
Currently they display the numbers in grey as percentages.
The numbers are too small to read. I would like them bigger.

I went to the configuration file at    /etc/conky/conky.conf
and found this part:

conky.text = [[
${color grey}Info:$color ${scroll 32 Conky $conky_version - $sysname $nodename $kernel $machine}
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes

But I don't know where in this to change it or whether I should change something in the  ~/.conky/   
directory which does not contain a config file.
Thanks in advance !

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 660

Re: Conky font size for mem and CPU

There should be a "font" line further up in your conkyrc file or you could add it in per line so that it's different where you want it to be. You need to search for examples, there are plenty out there. It been several years since I set up a conky.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Conky

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GlenS

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Registered: 2024-10-20

Posts: 9

Re: Conky font size for mem and CPU

By default, running the command "conky" will load ~/.config/conky/conky.conf it it exists.
To easily edit, copy /etc/conky/conky.conf to the ~/.config/conky directory.

As @eriefisher said you can download configs, at for example  https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=124&order=latest
Downloads of this kind will usually be a folder containing necessary fonts and or scripts and a .conf file
You can run the downloaded config by pointing conky to this conf file using the "-c" flag.
eg

conky -c /path/to/xxx.conf

Last edited by GlenS (2025-01-23 08:07:59)

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