Conky Guide/Recommendations for Qubes-OS

[Iestyn Best]

Hi,

I have seen it somewhere before, and also seen it recently in screenshots by Joanna, but I cannot seem to find it at the moment. I have done a search through both the user and devel group but there are no results when you search "conky".

Are there any guides or recommendations to installing conky in Qubes-OS.

I think I might have more questions later but I believe the first question is correct installation and use.

Regards,
Iestyn Best

[Iestyn Best]

Ok, I have received no reply so far on this topic.

I guess, if I trust the package, I should just install it to dom0.

My next questions would be around the question of retrieving information from other domains to use in conky. For example, I might want the network flow information and statistics displayed from the netvm. Is this possibly and is it going to compromise security?

Please let me know your thoughts.

[Iestyn Best]

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Hi,

I have now installed via the default repositories and looking to
configure the layout.

Does anyone have any examples of what they have already done within
Qubes and would like to share.

Regards,
Iestyn Best
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[Andrew]

Iestyn Best:

> Hi,
>
> I have now installed via the default repositories and looking to
> configure the layout.
>
> Does anyone have any examples of what they have already done within
> Qubes and would like to share.
>
> Regards,
> Iestyn Best
>

Never heard of Conky before. Here's what I have going now. Seems
pretty cool, but it takes ~3% CPU constantly (not so great when on
battery power).

You also have to run the python script like:
python print_vm_stats.py forever delay 5 conky "#7f8ed3" outfile
/tmp/vmstats
This takes another 2-3% CPU.

I'd really like to automate some traffic graphs from NetVMs and
ProxyVMs. Let me know if you get anywhere with that.

Andrew

PS: Just saw that the included conkyrc has two diskiograph-read's
instead of one -read and one -write. That should be fixed.

[Iestyn Best]

On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 8:25:17 AM UTC+10, Andrew wrote:

Never heard of Conky before.  Here's what I have going now.  Seems
pretty cool, but it takes ~3% CPU constantly (not so great when on
battery power).

You also have to run the python script like:
    python print_vm_stats.py forever delay 5 conky "#7f8ed3" outfile
/tmp/vmstats
This takes another 2-3% CPU.

I'd really like to automate some traffic graphs from NetVMs and
ProxyVMs.  Let me know if you get anywhere with that.

Andrew

PS: Just saw that the included conkyrc has two diskiograph-read's
instead of one -read and one -write.  That should be fixed.

Thanks Andrew, I appreciate your feedback and you have some interesting things that I might want to integrate into mine.

So far, I have just started modifying the basic script to display some more detailed info about cpu, memory and disk.

Once I get something more interesting, and not so much a WIP, I will look at sharing it.

[Olivier Médoc]

On 04/07/15 00:25, Andrew wrote:
> Iestyn Best:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have now installed via the default repositories and looking to
>> configure the layout.
>>
>> Does anyone have any examples of what they have already done within
>> Qubes and would like to share.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Iestyn Best
>>
> Never heard of Conky before. Here's what I have going now. Seems
> pretty cool, but it takes ~3% CPU constantly (not so great when on
> battery power).
>
> You also have to run the python script like:
> python print_vm_stats.py forever delay 5 conky "#7f8ed3" outfile
> /tmp/vmstats
> This takes another 2-3% CPU.
>
> I'd really like to automate some traffic graphs from NetVMs and
> ProxyVMs. Let me know if you get anywhere with that.

You can have some graphs if you install etherape in your netvm.

The only thing is that you need to tweak it a little bit if you want to
isolate traffic of each AppVM in your graph:
- Select interface > any instead of eth0 or your first interface
- Filter out traffic going through the eth0 of your firewallvm by
changing the filter to 'not host your_firewallvm_ip_address'

Et voilà, you can see a nice realtime traffic and bandwith graph
generated by all appvm connected to your firewall vm.

[Iestyn Best]

On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 11:33:01 PM UTC+10, Olivier Médoc wrote:

You can have some graphs if you install etherape in your netvm.

The only thing is that you need to tweak it a little bit if you want to
isolate traffic of each AppVM in your graph:
- Select interface > any instead of eth0 or your first interface
- Filter out traffic going through the eth0 of your firewallvm by
changing the filter to 'not host your_firewallvm_ip_address'

Et voilà, you can see a nice realtime traffic and bandwith graph
generated by all appvm connected to your firewall vm.

Sounds interesting, have you got an example of it working?

 

[dde...@gmail.com]

Can You give me name of Your conky? I want download this config :)

[Iestyn Best]

Hi,

@AndrewDavidWong, Is this something we can possibly have added to the documentation.

Thanks

[Andrew David Wong]

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Tracking this here:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1987

It's unlikely that anyone from the core team will be able to document
this (due to lack of time/resources), so I've added the "help wanted"
tag. This means that we'll likely need help from the community (i.e.,
a pull request) for it to happen.

- --
Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[vfre...@gmail.com]

Thank you Andrew.