This is a simple conky config tailored to work on my ThinkPad x60, thus it would problably not work much if you are not running the IBM ACPI module.

Features

• An indicator for your ThinkLight™
• Battery status
• Volume and brightness controls
• CPU and Memory usage
• Disk usage
• Network usage
• Status aware icons
• CapsLk indicator

Things to add

• Disk usage in external drives / devices
• Services running on the machine
• An script to generate a conkyrc file based on user input?

Installation

git clone git@github.com:eskerda/thinky.git ~/.thinky
cp ~/.thinky/fonts/*.ttf ~/.fonts
conky -c ~/.thinky/conkyrc

FAQ

Q: Don't you think that polling all these scripts is a bit overkill?

A: If 'overkill' is a problem, you shouldn't be running conky anyway.

Credits

• OswaldFont by Vernon Adams
• The icons provided in the thinky-glyphs.ttf file are part of the following iconic fontsets:
  • Font Awesome
  • Typicons
  • Entypo
  • Repackaged into a single file using Fontello