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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

~murilo-cwb Jun 10, 2013 New member

conky-colors {options}

shows
Wrong option. {options}murilo@murilo-laptop:~/Download/conky_colors$

=Shad-Wolf Jun 7, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Very nice setup for conky and nice way to setup and customize.

After trying this out and testing it, I can't quite seem to get it to configure correctly. For the --hd=<default|meerkat|mix|simple> setting it only displays HD space for root, and not the ones for my home directory /home/<user>/ because it's only displaying for root, and it doesn't seem to matter what setting I put the HD to it doesn't change to display both.

also the --network setting doesn't seem to do anything, it's not displaying it anywhere on the conky output. I even tried just doing --wlan=0 for wireless interface but that doesn't show up on the output at all. I dunno if I have to do it like --network --wlan=0 ?

~thinkswithportals May 25, 2013 New member

Having a problem...
I put in all the commands you asked and restarted the session, opened up a terminal and put in my directory and got a result of: "bash: /home/jamietaliaferro/Downloads/conkystuff: Is a directory". Is that supposed to happen? Also, I decided to keep going and put in make, but got "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." Did I do something wrong? Your config looks great though. Good work.

~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".

~abdobelk May 25, 2013 New member

I changed the own_windows_type from "override" to "normal", but still some bugs, icons missing, opaque background, network not working, here is a screenshot :

[link]

~paperclipbadger Jun 3, 2013 New member Student General Artist

The missing icons is probably due to a problem with fonts. The ones being used that aren't showing up are Webdings and Weather.

~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!

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