Conky Configurations

Custom Conky system monitor configurations for Alan's CachyOS/KDE Plasma machines. Both use the same Matrix cyberpunk colour theme but are tuned for different hardware and display scaling.

Configurations

RTX3080conky.conf — Dev Box

CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (16 threads)
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
Display	2560x1440 @ 144Hz, 150% Plasma scaling
Storage	Root (btrfs SSD)
Panel	280px wide, 885px min-height, font size 9

Full system monitor plus a Claude Code usage section that shows real-time API plan utilisation via the Anthropic OAuth endpoint. All fonts and graph sizes are scaled down to fit the 150% HiDPI scaling.

• Date/time, kernel, uptime
• Temperature monitoring (CPU, GPU, NVMe) with live graphs
• CPU usage with per-core graphs (16 threads, 4x4 grid)
• RAM usage bar and top 5 processes
• Root storage bar
• GPU utilisation and VRAM (nvidia-smi)
• Network stats (wlan0)
• Claude Code usage — 5-hour session and 7-day weekly utilisation bars with percentage and reset countdown

systemconky1.conf — Home Server

CPU	Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 (20 cores)
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Display	3840x2160 (4K), 200% Plasma scaling
Storage	Root, Media (bcachefs), Media2 (bcachefs), TempNVME
Panel	400px wide, 1008px min-height, font size 9

Full system monitor with Claude Code usage section. Sized for 4K at 200% scaling (1008px fills screen to taskbar) with larger fonts and wider graphs. Shows storage bars for all four mounted drives.

Key Differences

	RTX3080 (dev)	systemconky1 (server)
Panel width	280px	400px
Base font	size 9	size 9
CPU cores shown	16 (4x4)	20 (5x4)
Storage mounts	Root only	Root, Media, Media2, TempNVME
Claude section	Yes (OAuth API)	Yes (OAuth API)
Display scaling	150% (HiDPI)	200% (4K HiDPI)

Claude Code Usage Widget

Both configs include a Claude Code usage section powered by two scripts in scripts/:

conky-claude-usage.py — Fetches plan utilisation from the Anthropic OAuth API (https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage) using the token in ~/.claude/.credentials.json. Results are cached for 5 minutes in /tmp/claude-usage-cache.json. Writes percentage and reset countdown values to /tmp/claude-{5h,7d}-{pct,reset} files for conky to read.

claude-bars.sh — Reads the cached percentage files and outputs conky markup with colour-coded bars:

• Green (#00FF41) — usage below 75%
• Orange (#FFAA44) — usage 75–89%
• Red (#FF4500) — usage 90%+

The widget shows two rolling windows:

• 5h Session — resets every 5 hours, reflects recent burst usage
• 7d Weekly — resets every 7 days, reflects sustained usage against plan limits

Requires an active Claude Code OAuth session. If the token expires, run claude once to refresh it.

Colour Palette (Matrix Cyberpunk)

Shared across both configurations:

Element	Colour	Hex
Text	Pale green	#A0FFA0
Dividers/CPU	Matrix green	#00FF41
RAM/Claude labels	Electric cyan	#00FFFF
GPU	Magenta	#FF00FF
Storage	Dark cyan	#008B8B
Temps	Orange-red	#FF4500

Fonts Required

Located in fonts/ directory:

• Conky Icons by Carelli.ttf — main icon font (working on Wayland)
• ConkySymbols.ttf — alternative icon font (may not work on Wayland)

Font Installation

cp fonts/*.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -f

Icon Character Mappings (Conky Icons by Carelli)

• h — Thermometer (temps)
• f — CPU chip
• j — RAM
• k — Storage/disk
• n — GPU
• b — Network
• c — Claude section

Usage

# Dev box (RTX 3080)
cp RTX3080conky.conf ~/.config/conky/conky.conf

# Home server
cp systemconky1.conf ~/.config/conky/conky.conf

# Run conky
conky &

Notes

• Uses nvidia-smi for GPU stats (Wayland-compatible, unlike ${nvidia} variables)
• hwmon indices vary by machine — check /sys/class/hwmon/ after boot
• Network interface: wlan0 (change to enp5s0 for ethernet)
• The Claude widget requires python3 and an active ~/.claude/.credentials.json

License

GPL-3.0 — see LICENSE.