Duly informed of the joys of conky-cli and the much-needed watch command, I decided to try out both of them this evening, and came up with this.
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Day of Conky
A minimalist Conky configuration that changes color to match the Day of Ubuntu transitioning wallpaper.
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Top 10 Conky Designs
This is a collection of Top 10 Conky designs in a random order, that I really like. Something a bit different from the basic setup.
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Conky has now cairo support embedded
A great feature is in the pipeline for the next release of Conky. Not happy to have included built-in lua support, Brenden and co. have now included bindings for Cairo and Imlib2 as well. This will allow us to use the whole Cairo API within Conky!
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Conky is a good example of a simple Linux tool
Linux (and indeed Unix) has long held the philosophy of "one tool for each job, and one job for each tool." This can lead to quite a paradox for newcomers to Linux: Why are there so many tools that do similar things?
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Install/Set-up Conky on Ubuntu
To Linux newbies who have seen that geeky looking desktop system monitor but don't know what it is or how to get and install it, well it's called Conky and you too can easily have it, and you don't have to be a computer hacker to set it up.Here is a step-by-step guide on installing and configuring Conky on Ubuntu
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Displaying System Details On Your Desktop With Conky System Monitor On Ubuntu 7.04
This document describes how to set up the light-weight Conky system monitor on Ubuntu 7.04. Conky is a desktop widget that is able to display most diverse information like CPU temperature, current used network-bandwith or anything you want. You can customize the whole layout including colors and fonts.
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Conky: highly configurable system monitor for X
Conky is one of my favorite applications for all of my Linux distros. It is a light-weight system monitor (according to the project page) that can monitor many different aspects of your computer. You choose what to monitor and you choose where the monitor is displayed on your desktop through use of a configuration file - .conkyrc.
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