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Conky - Monitoring in style

noorbeast — Sat, 2010-06-26 21:48

Conky allows you to create interesting and innovative monitoring and notifications on your desktop. As a resource for the latest in Conky and Conky scripts, go to: http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/

Be sure to check out some of the beautiful work by londonali1010, a talented english lady, who is also an editor for the site: http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/?page_id=3331

Conky will soon support real transparency, which is needed for some window managers, such as KDE 4.

But there is a workaround trick for using conky pseudo transparency: http://mylittledesktop.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-make-conky-play-nicel... Official documentation for in-built conky variables is at: http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

Official documentation for the new lua script support for conky can be found here: http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

As an example, you can use the in-built conky variables to monitor a network like this ${upspeed wlan0} and ${downspeed wlan0}, where wlan0 is the interface that is being monitored, though you still have to set the font colour and position.

You can specify the location of a particular element in a concky script like this: ${goto 150}${voffset 280} Another recent trend is to use a template file, which is a bit like CSS for web pages, where the layout is separated from the content. If you get stuck with conky, here is a good trouble shooting thread: http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1280453

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