https://paapereira.xyz/tags/conky/Recent content in Tags/Conky on paapereira.xyzHugoen-US<a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>©</a> 2008-2026 / <a href='https://gitlab.com/paapereira/paapereira.gitlab.io' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>source code</a>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:31:00 +0100https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2008/04/conky/Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:31:00 +0100https://paapereira.xyz/posts/2008/04/conky/<p><a href="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">Conky</a> (1.5.1) is an application that posts system monitoring info onto your Desktop. It is very light-weighted and very cool to play with.</p> <h2 id="steps-to-install">Steps to install</h2> <p>In the Terminal:</p> <ul> <li>install conky</li> </ul> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>sudo apt-get install conky </span></span></code></pre></div><ul> <li>get a configuration example file (check a nicer one bellow)</li> </ul> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>zcat /usr/share/doc/conky/examples/conkyrc.sample.gz &gt; ~/.conkyrc </span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id="run-conky-in-the-terminal">Run *conky* in the Terminal</h2> <p>To have <em>conky</em> automatically start when you boot Ubuntu, do the following:</p>