Decent Conky Tutorial

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Awesome System Monitoring with ConkyWe’re going to make our Linux desktop look awesome with a tool called Conky. It’s a lightweight system monitor that you can customize to fit with your desktop theme. You can configure how it looks and also what it displays. It can tell you almost anything about your computer (OS,Kernel Version, IP addresses, Fan speeds, CPU Temperature and much much more).... read the rest of the article at bhaviks Blog --> http://bhaviksblog.com/02/awesome-system-m...ing-with-conky/Enjoy!

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Eric, your on a roll tonight. Also, here is 18 pages of conky configurations and screenshots from the Arch forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39906I used to use it as a reference to make up different conky configs.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Trying to stimulate some posting/learning.

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No doubt

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Been playing with Conky tonight. It's really neato and all that... but MAN! What a pain in the posterior area to set up and customize.

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Yes it is always nice to have tons of examples. Thats why I like that thread I posted above.

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If I get impatient, I may just set my ol' gkrellm back up instead.

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If I get impatient, I may just set my ol' gkrellm back up instead.

Oh but you can do so much more with conky. I have seen some amazing shots of it.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Yeah... but most of that amazing stuff that you can do with conky I don't really have a need for.

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Well I just meant things like cpu load, partitions, network load etc. nothing extremely techy. Basically the same thing that gkrellm does but nicer looking. I dunno this looks pretty useful and neat: http://i.imagehost.org/view/0420/Screenshot_10

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Oh, I thought you meant like running my audio player or getting my emails.gkrellm can do cpu and eth0, plus temps, power supply voltages, etc.

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Yup gkrellm is nice but I prefer conky whenever I use non-tiling wms. I find it more customizable than gkrellm. Easer to edit a config file than install plugins.

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Oh, I thought you meant like running my audio player or getting my emails.gkrellm can do cpu and eth0, plus temps, power supply voltages, etc.

I think Gkrellm can run audio player and check emails! gkrellm-mailwatch - GKrellM plugin to watch mailboxes in multiple panelsgkrellm-radio - FM radio tuner for GKrellMgkrellm-volume - A mixer plugin for GKrellMgkrellmss - Plugin for GKrellM that has a VU meter and a chartgkrellxmms2 - GKrellM plugin to control xmms2And I bet Conky doesn't have a duck!gkrellm-bfm - system load plugin for gkrellm with a duck

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Sure. Gkrellm does all kinds of stuff.

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I think Gkrellm can run audio player and check emails! gkrellm-mailwatch - GKrellM plugin to watch mailboxes in multiple panelsgkrellm-radio - FM radio tuner for GKrellMgkrellm-volume - A mixer plugin for GKrellMgkrellmss - Plugin for GKrellM that has a VU meter and a chartgkrellxmms2 - GKrellM plugin to control xmms2And I bet Conky doesn't have a duck!gkrellm-bfm - system load plugin for gkrellm with a duck

Nope no duck but both applications are very nice. I was not meaning that one is better than the other. It was just my opinion.