conky

[deep16]

trying out 11.04 a3... pretty lazyass to find out how this conky stuff wrks

1.installed conky

now a step by step post to run up a complete conky will b very much appreciated.... plz donot redirect to another link...

 

[lxskllr]

Google "conky scripts", and look for some you like. There aren't any instructions for setting it up. There's too many variables, and ways to do things to give step by step instructions. I'd give you mine, but it's a hacked together mess. No point in learning bad habits from the start.

 

[MrColin]

What information do you want conky to display?

1. You'll probably want to go to the conky project homepage and find the chart of all of the config file values and the chart of all of the display variables.

2. From there you should probably set up the config file with the config values. then pick the info you want to display and set it up one per line, tweaking it until it works.

3. Then go back and from the top down set up the positioning, color, font of the displayed elements.

4. You will never be finished/satisfied so go and figure out how to do the LUA stuff.

Also, the workflow goes like this (for me):

~$ gedit ~/.conkyrc &

Edit create your conky file in gedit

~$ conky -c ~/.conkyrc

start conky with the file created in the previous step. Later versions of conky will reload after you re-save the conkyrc file. Also, you might need to build conky from source if you want the very latest version or if you want to enable something that isn't enabled in the repository version. Have fun!

 

[Kirby]

Here's my VM.

Install conky.
make a .conkyrc file
put stuff you want in it (plenty of examples on the web)
optionally have a few lua scripts (mine does)
run conky

this is the setup i used. scripts and images are provided. it's much easier to use a pre-made one and dick around with it than starting from scratch.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Conky+lua?content=139024

 

[Emulex]

aww i thought this was a pee wee herman emulator. did you see the hbo broadcast of his broadway show?