Conky is a free, light-weight system monitoring tool designed for X Window System environments. It provides a highly customizable and visually appealing way to display various types of information directly on your desktop. Conky can show real-time data such as CPU usage, memory utilization, network activity, disk usage, system temperatures, and more, in the form of text and graphical elements.
CONKY-colors 🎨 is an easier way to configure Conky.
This conky script supports multilanguage 🌐: Bulgarian, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install aptitude python-statgrab python-keyring ttf-ubuntu-font-family hddtemp curl lm-sensors conky-all
sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
sudo sensors-detect #answering Yes (default) to all questions, even that last one that defaults to No
Now restart your session.
Download and extract the conky-colors.tar.gz and type in the terminal in the same directory that has been extracted:
make
sudo make install
conky-colors {options}
For example, if your CPU is quad-core and you want the noble color, with HD, network, and Pidgin monitor, all in Portuguese:
conky-colors --theme=noble --lang=en --cpu=4 --network --hd=default --pidgin
For a working weather script, you NEED to define, in a user-specific config file, a partner id and registration code for the weather.com xoap service. For this purpose, copy .conkyForecast.config in /usr/share/conkycolors folder to your home and set up as required.
bbcweather/yahooweather widget doesn't need any kind of registration.
For a working photo widget, you need to specify a file or directory in conkyPhoto or conkyPhotoRandom script in ~/.conkycolors/bin/.
Update your font cache:
sudo fc-cache -v -f
In the following links, you will find instructions about how to use those scripts:
- Conky Weather Script
- Conky SSL Mail Script
- Conky Pidgin Script
- Conky Rhythmbox Script
- Conky Banshee Script
- Conky Exaile Script
To start Conky with a specific configuration file, use the following command:
conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc
To run Conky at startup, follow these steps:
- Open the System menu.
- Go to Preferences and select Startup Applications.
- Click "Add" to add a new startup application.
- Add the path to the conkyStart file:
/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyStart
.
This will ensure that Conky starts automatically when you log in to your system.
Have Fun! 🎉