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CONKY-COLORSby ~helmuthdu

Customization / Skins & Themes / Linux and Unix Utilities / Other

Now it's easy to customize your desktop!

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.

CONKY-colors is an easier way to configure Conky.

This conky script support multilanguage:
Bulgarian, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian

How to install
Go to a terminal and type:
$sudo apt-get install aptitude python-keyring python-statgrab 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.zip and type in terminal in the same directory that has been extracted.
$make
$sudo make install
$conky-colors {options}

$conky-colors --help [for help]

Ex: if your cpu is quad-core and you want the noble color, with hd, network and pidgin monitor and all in portuguese
conky-colors --theme=gnome-noble --lang=en --cpu=4 --network --hd=default --pidgin

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

+++ Kaivalagi's Scripts (Included in conky-colors) +++
Conky SSL Mail Script: [link]
Conky Pidgin Script: [link]
Conky Rhythmbox Script: [link]
Conky Banshee Script: [link]
Conky Exaile Script: [link]
+++ If you can, say thanks to him for this great work +++

in terminal type conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc.

To run conky at startup, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications, click "Add" and add the path to the conkyStart file[/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyStart]

that's all folks!

OPTIONS FROM THE SCREENSHOT:
conky-colors --cpu=2 --calendar --photord --clementine=cd --hd=default --network --theme=wise
conky-colors --sls --weather=brxx0043 --theme=orange
conky-colors --cairo --cpu=2 --clock=cairo --network --theme=blue
conky-colors --ring --network --theme=red
conky-colors --slim --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=white --weather=brxx0043
conky-colors --board --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=cyan

KWON PROBLEMS:
Lua/bash scripts work with conky 1.8.1, but most of the python scripts still doesnt;
SLS MODE only work with lm-sensors configured
The position of the photo and cover may be wrong bc in ubuntu the space between the widgets is different from Archlinux

HELP WITH CONKY:
[link]

REPORT BUGS:
[link]

Changelog:
8.1.1
* fixed bad typo
8.1 (2012-07-11)
* Bugfixes
* Fixed SLS mode
* New icons in default mode
* Dropped pidgin and exaile support
* Removed unused fonts and images

love 8 8

joy 8 8

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

sad 6 6

~~fear 0 0~~

neutral 1 1

~abdobelk May 6, 2013 New member

HI

I followed your instructions for installing conky-colors in ubuntu 13.04, there some problems :
- sometimes it does not start as the computer starts up
- it's always in the first background, eclipsing any other window, I have to open .conkycolors/conkyrc , save it again so it's "re-rendered" and back to background
- some icons are not displayed, the ubuntu distro logo, the hard drive & the network
- sometimes conky colors gets a weird background color, mostly gray
- the network section displays no info, gives the message "network unavailable", even so I'm connected to a Wi-Fi, even right now that I'm writing this message
I've been using conky colors for almost 2 years, none of this bugs occurred when I was using it with ubuntu 12.04 and bellow, these bugs I reported occurred in ubuntu 12.10 and ubuntu 13.04

I hope this message could help you to improve conky colors

~neonoafs May 10, 2013

Mine is working gr8 with Ubuntu 13.04. The only option I had to change is own_windows_type from "override" to "normal".

~biominimalist91 Apr 13, 2013 New member Hobbyist Photographer

thank you so much!

~dambros Mar 24, 2013 New member

First of all amazing work, can´t thank you enough.

Can you explain me how can I move the cover image a little bit down? The cover is over the Status word for me (Im also on Arch).

Thanks!

~Flash858 Jan 11, 2013

Thanks for all the hard work. This is the best implementation of Conky I have seen along with Pwidgets in Puppy. One issue I am having is that random photo script stopped working and it is stuck on a single image. I have deleted the temp file, removed the folder and reloaded to ensure that when I reloaded conky colors that the image was blank, then changed the folder and while it loads an image, it no longer rotates.

Also, is there a way to speed up the sequence? I'd like the image to change every 10 seconds or so.

Thanks again!

~helmuthdu Jan 15, 2013

Try to check if you have imagemagick installed in your computer;
Check if the path to the image directory is correcty in your ~/.conkycolors/bin/conkyPhotoRandom file;
Idk what can be besides those 2 things

, it's working as expected here...

~helmuthdu Jan 15, 2013

Okay, after some tests it fail to display sometimes... i try to check this...

~Android-808 Jan 12, 2013

I've added a bug report so I don't forget and will try looking into it one afternoon next week.

Report available here:[link]

~jimsarcade Nov 10, 2012

The download link is for conky-colors 8.0. Where can we find the latest version (8.1.1)?

~Android-808 Dec 8, 2012

Latest version always here: [link]

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