conky | Light-weight system monitor for X Wayland

I'm using grep to filter certain lines from a log file and present them to my conky config. The log file is /var/log/messages. The entries pertain to UFW block events.

The trouble is that I only care about certain strings of each line. I can grep the only the UFW blocks, but the line is too long to fit in conky. Even if conky were not part of the equation, learning to only show pieces of a log line would benefit me in future.

I have got somewhere by using the following:

grep -Ewoh '(IN=([a-z]){4,})|((DST|SRC)=(([0-9]){1,3}\.){3,}([0-9]){1,3})|(PROTO=[a-z]{2,6})|((SPT|DPT)=[0-9]{1,5})' /var/log/messages

This ugly-looking regex is filtering for entries (like) this:

I'm trying to separate the output of ps -eo pid,command,size --sort -size into a list of dictionaries. I have managed to do so but when there is a space in the output of 'COMMAND', the rest of the output gets transferred to 'SIZE'. I've been stuck trying to figure out how to remove the arguments after the command.

Here's my code:

Is there a way to make membar and fs_bar have gradient colors in conky? What I exactly need GREEN when the usage is low, YELLOW when mid-range, and RED when there is high usage of memory and disk space.

I have followed the example from Casey's Conky Reference with Examples .

I modified it to have

I am using taskwarrior together with conky and to make the format look nicer, I want to modify, what information is actually given by taskwarrior. In particular, I do not want it to display the "Age" column of a task. Right now it looks like this:

I use awesomewm and have a small conky configuration on top of my wallpaper with transparent background. Now i have the idea to change the behaviour of awesomewm to let this small area untouched. So when maximising a window (client?) or when arranging them, this small area must be completely free. I tried to add a second wibar on the right side, changed the width and made it transparent. But all i got was a transparent sidebar which shows the background but not the informations comming from conky.

Is it possible to stack two transparent components over the wallpaper? which configuration whould be the best? Is there a better way to reach my goal?

I use Manjaro with awesomewm. I can post configs if needed.

Thanks, Andreas

I'm trying to create widgets with Pycairo to monitor systems, like Conky. I'm trying to draw directly on X, using Cairo Surface with Xlib.

When I try to instantiate the cairo.XlibSurface() class, an error is returned: