ConkyMounts script by Wyn, my custom Conky Config (LINUX ONLY)

     I use Conky on my Ubuntu system to keep me aware of what all is going on in my system. For those of you who don’t know, “Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.” I was irritated when I found the basic way to display file system information such as free space/total space was to hard code each volume into the conky config file. So, I spent a few hours relearning basic, then converting my brain into linux shell scripting, and wrote a script to automagically do it for me. See the section under MOUNTED DEVICES in the screenshot below.

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–EDIT– I improved my script and it is no longer separate files. To display mounts, simply add this line to your conky config:
${execpi 30 grep -v -E ^fuse|^udev|^lrm|^securityfs|^binfmt|^devpts|^tmpfs|^varlock|^varrun|^sysfs|^/proc /etc/mtab | cut -d” ” -f2 | while read line ; do
echo $line ‘${goto 160}${fs_used ‘$line’} ${alignr}${fs_size ‘$line’}’
done }
To download my Conky config, click HERE.

Full desktop and more info after the jump!

For those of you geeky enough to be interested, the script pulls a list of mounted volumes from /etc/mtab and trims out system created volumes. It then passes this info along to a line to be parsed by conky to display the mount point, free space, and total space. (You can do a bar graph too if you want.) What’s lovely about it, is that it updates at whatever interval you have it set at. So, if you plug in your usb stick and wait just a bit, boom now your usb is in the list.

~ by wynneth on February 2, 2009.