Install Conky On

This article will describe installing conky which is a system monitor tool running as desktop widget.

Conky is one of the oldest and perhaps most useful system monitoring utilities available on Linux. It is highly configurable as it is able to monitor literally any aspect of your system from hard-drive temperature through number of users logged in to currently played music song. Conky installation on Ubuntu 18.04 Installation of Conky is plain.

How To Install Conky Manager

• Either build the package the package conky-lua from AUR or install the conky-lua-nv from the official repo. Missing network information If network information is missing like download speed or network name (SSID), you need to replace the network interfaces in the configuration file with your network interface name.
• Installing Conky Base install. Gentoo provides an ebuild to quickly and easily install Conky. Pay particular attention to the USE flags. You'll most likely want X11 support (X), and make sure you select the USE flags for any music players (other than MPD) which you want, such as Audacious (audacious).
• Install Conky Manager by issuing the command sudo apt-get install conky-manager. Run Conky Manager with the command conky-manager. When the app opens, you’ll see a simple-to-use window (Figure 4) that allows you to easily import theme packs, customize themes, and more. When you install the Conky Manager app, it will install several predefined.
• Type the following command: sudo apt-get install conky-all conky 7. Press Enter or Return 8. Type Y and press Enter or Return If you are installing Conky on Ubuntu MATE 18.04 or later version, you will need to download and install Realpath and Conky Manager. Downloaded and Install the Packages that Match Your System: 64 Bit Systems.

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• 2. ${HOME}/.conkyrc

1 Install conky

2 ${HOME}/.conkyrc

${HOME}/.conkyrc is config file for conky.config and conky.text. You can also use /etc/conky/conky.conf.

• CPU core number is started from 1 (cpu0 means average of cores). Add entry of ${cpu cpuN} for your cpu cores.
• The following command treats eth0 as network interface name. Change your network interface name of ifconfig.

3 Autostart

Make conky to be start automatically on login. You can use gnome-display-properties instead of the following command.

Reboot machine.

4 Execution result

The conky widget is displayed on desktop.

This article will describe installing conky which is a system monitor tool running as desktop widget.

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Install Conky On Arch

• 2. ${HOME}/.conkyrc

Conky Manager

1 Install conky

2 ${HOME}/.conkyrc

${HOME}/.conkyrc is config file for conky.config and conky.text. You can also use /etc/conky/conky.conf.

• CPU core number is started from 1 (cpu0 means average of cores). Add entry of ${cpu cpuN} for your cpu cores.
• The following command treats eth0 as network interface name. Change your network interface name of ifconfig.

Ubuntu Conky

3 Autostart

Make conky to be start automatically on login. You can use gnome-display-properties instead of the following command.

Reboot machine.

4 Execution result

The conky widget is displayed on desktop.