Conky, the Basics - TuT

[Reality]

I'll go through the whole installation.

• If you've just installed the distro, you have to update first so the software center has conky in it
  
• Open Terminal
  
• Type
  
  Code:

  Sudo apt-get install Conky
• Now conky is installed.

• Just as a test, press alt + f2 and then type 'conky' and hit run, minimize any windows and check if the default conky is running, if it is then right click and it'll go away, if it isn't... then it either isn't working, or it just doesn't on your computer.

• Navigate to etc/conky/conky.conf
  
• Copy conky.conf and paste it in your [b]home directory.
  
• If it is hidden: Press ctrl + h and it will show up
  
• If it is not hidden/after you've shown it: Right click conky.conf and press rename. Rename it to .conkyrc, you may have to do it twice if it doesn't change at first.
  
• Open the .conkyrc file in gedit(gnome users), or kate (kde), and add your conky scripts, then save it.
  
• After you've made the conky file, hit Alt + f2 and type Conky, and then hit run. It should open up, if it doesn't... you can ask me but I can't guarantee you it will work.

I don't know how to add it to startup, so please don't ask me!

Source. I wrote some of it, though; as you can see if you click the source, I expanded partially

The following are links to cool conky configs, that was my google search :p:

• Link 1
  
• This link has some cool ones, you have to sign up though, ubuntu-forums.org
  
• Link 3
  
• Link 4
  
• Link 5
  
• Link 6, on the bottom of the page there is a link to the conky file, you can click 'Download' and it'll just go to the source or whatever
  

Share your links if you want + say thanks if you use

[Eve]

Thanks for finding, editing and sharing. Keep it up.

[Reality]

thx eve i always knew you were there for me