Perhaps, or something like it. I didn't put any content in the default conky.conf that was accessible on the status bar, so that's why there's no battery info in it at the moment.

The other thing is that I'm not sure the way Jaysire's doing it at the moment is ideal, because that value from lshal doesn't seem to change during charging, and only updates a few seconds after the charger is unplugged. Perhaps some more logic is required in the helper script to determine charging status and report something slightly different through conky.

Still conky is all about personal customisation, although the idea with the default config is that it is useful to those who don't want to configure it themselves. So feel free to tweak your own conf file. If you do, you should keep a backup copy of it somewhere outside of /etc.

This brings me on to my first question to conky users. In the next package version, a launcher script will check for the existence of a user supplied conky.conf. Traditionally this will be in /home/user/.conky.conf or similar - somewhere where the default text editors will not see it.

Would users prefer to keep their own customised conky.conf in MyDocs instead, so they can edit it easily?