I want conky to display the upload/download speed of my internet connection.
I have installed the conky-manager. It has many widgets but none of those display the internet upload/download speed.
Note : I am not trying to monitor how much data I have uploaded/downloaded. I want to know the current speed of my internet connection just like speedtest-cli works.
That’s what I’m asking you want to show total only or the speed at the current time? I think the image shows what you want if you want that then that can be done you need to edit the script. Like shown below.
I have set my interface name as wlan0 but conky still refuses to start
$ conky
conky: Syntax error (/home/home/.conkyrc:1: unexpected symbol near '$') while reading config file.
conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: [string "..."]:147: attempt to index a nil value (local 'settings')
$ conky
conky: Syntax error (/home/home/.conkyrc:1: syntax error near 'Down') while reading config file.
conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: [string "..."]:147: attempt to index a nil value (local 'settings')
$ conky
conky: Syntax error (/home/home/.conkyrc:1: unexpected symbol near '$') while reading config file.
conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: [string "..."]:147: attempt to index a nil value (local 'settings')
Oh I didn’t look at the file you were making changes to. Conky doesn’t use a file named .conkyrc those rc files are mainly for terminal and bash.
For conky the configuration file is in ~/.config/conky/conky.config normally if you installed conky and ran it there should be a file names conky.config
It’s using the default conky.conf. Did you kill conky and reload it? if not try it should load the changed file if not conky -c ~/.config/conky/conky.config use that in terminal. But kill current running conky first.
I am running conky by using the command “conky” in the terminal & terminating it by using CTRL+C.
$ conky -c ~/.config/conky/conky.config
conky: Syntax error (/home/home/.config/conky/conky.config:1: syntax error near 'Down') while reading config file.
conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: [string "..."]:147: attempt to index a nil value (local 'settings')
You can’t run only those two lines you need the ui and a few other configurations done in that file. The easiest thing for you to do is search the internet for conky themes download a file you like and edit that and add what you want to file.
You can start here and read the Arch Wiki about conky.
Also, you might want to install some icon fonts like font-awesome and powerline-fonts. Some themes need them.