Conky

[Meemaw]

Its one heck of an OS, that is for sure. It isn't as shiny as OS X but I can do way more in it. I just have to get my head out of Apple and rap it around PCLOS.

Yes, there's a little bit of a learning curve but you can do it. Unless you just WANT to use the command line, I suggest using the GUI tools to start getting familiar with things.

As for it not being as shiny as OS X, please go to the Monthly Screenshots and see just how shiny you can make it!!!
(Edit)  I see you've been there already!!!  Nice ss!

BTW, I installed Conky Wizard to see what you were talking about, but I've already uninstalled it!!!!

 

[konaexpress]

What is a good editor for conky, I think this distro came with Leaf(?). Is this good or should I get something else?

[djohnston]

Any text editor is fine. Use whatever your favorite text editor is. And, the one you're referring to is leafpad.

[konaexpress]

OK, finally got around to it and copied Meemaw's file to the /home file, no luck. It keeps saying error and denied. Any ideas as to what to do now. I played with her file but I cant put it where it goes(?) Further more, without conky wizard, how do I start conky up? Holly cow I sound silly!

[Meemaw]

OK, finally got around to it and copied Meemaw's file to the /home file, no luck. It keeps saying error and denied. Any ideas as to what to do now. I played with her file but I cant put it where it goes(?) Further more, without conky wizard, how do I start conky up? Holly cow I sound silly!

Open it in leafpad. You need to put in the settings that are specific to your system. For example, my wireless is configured as wlan, but you may have a direct cable (probably eth0) and if I gave you one with a weather indicator, it will work but probably not for your location.

Save it in your /home as .conkyrc    You can open a terminal and type conky at the prompt and it will start.... or you can pull up lxde's Run... command (I can't remember where it is) and type in conky and start it that way.

You don't sound silly.... you sound like you are trying to learn.  That's good!
 

[Crow]

Nope, not silly. Conky is not difficult but it isn't intuitive I haven't installed conky in this partition and just did it.

Surprisingly I didn't find a .conkyrc file but in /etc/conky/  found a conky.conf with the configuration,  .

I won't try right now but I suppose that is the file you need to edit using the Meemaw configuration, just rename it first please, that way you can recover it if needed.

I used to have 5 or 6 versions of .conkyrc (.1conkyrc .2conkyrc .3conkyrc) and just edited and renamed the files when I needed them.

[konaexpress]

Thanks for the help all of you. I will try this, I have to get it sooner or later.

[konaexpress]

Nope, not silly. Conky is not difficult but it isn't intuitive I haven't installed conky in this partition and just did it.

Surprisingly I didn't find a .conkyrc file but in /etc/conky/  found a conky.conf with the configuration,  .

I won't try right now but I suppose that is the file you need to edit using the Meemaw configuration, just rename it first please, that way you can recover it if needed.

I used to have 5 or 6 versions of .conkyrc (.1conkyrc .2conkyrc .3conkyrc) and just edited and renamed the files when I needed them.

OK, found it. Had to sign in as root and then rename the file as conky.conf

Thanks for the help! Wahoo!

[djohnston]

OK, found it. Had to sign in as root and then rename the file as conky.conf

kona,

The /etc/conky/conky.conf is just a bare minimum sample with some annotations. Starting conky without a .conkyrc file will revert to that bare minimum configuration.

Once again, do this. Do not do this as root user. You do not need root priveleges to use conky or to edit the configuration file. Open a text editor. Any text editor. Copy the text meemaw posted. Paste the copied text into your text editor. Save the file as /home/(yourusername)/.conkyrc. You will then have something substantial to look at when you start conky.

[Crow]

2 config files for conky?

[menotu]

This might be of interest to some Conkers

How to use Conky for automatic system notification and administration

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/how-to-use-conky-for-automatic-system-notification-and-administration/2969?t

[konaexpress]

OK, found it. Had to sign in as root and then rename the file as conky.conf

kona,

The /etc/conky/conky.conf is just a bare minimum sample with some annotations. Starting conky without a .conkyrc file will revert to that bare minimum configuration.

Once again, do this. Do not do this as root user. You do not need root priveleges to use conky or to edit the configuration file. Open a text editor. Any text editor. Copy the text meemaw posted. Paste the copied text into your text editor. Save the file as /home/(yourusername)/.conkyrc. You will then have something substantial to look at when you start conky.

Maybe it will help if I say it this way, I tried to open/rename in PCmanFM and I was getting "Denied" so I told it to open this file as "Root" and another window would pop up and allow me to change the file. I also took the old Conky Wizard file (after I deleted the program) and renamed it conky.conf and it started working with the new format. I no longer was getting that ugly black screen. Blind luck maybe?

EDIT: when I use the terminal I get this:

[john@localhost ~]$ conky
Conky: desktop window (1600003) is subwindow of root window (15d)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
sh: /home/john/.ConkyWizardTheme/scripts/ip.py: No such file or directory

 

[djohnston]

2 config files for conky?

Yeah, I wasn't clear on that. I meant if he copied the sample /etc/conky/conky.conf to him home directory as .conkyrc.

EDIT: You can use more than one config file for conky.

conky -c config1
conky -c config2

[djohnston]

EDIT: when I use the terminal I get this:

[john@localhost ~]$ conky
Conky: desktop window (1600003) is subwindow of root window (15d)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
sh: /home/john/.ConkyWizardTheme/scripts/ip.py: No such file or directory

 

It's calling a python script "ip.py" which doesn't exist. Can you post your .conkyrc file?

[Meemaw]

OK, found it. Had to sign in as root and then rename the file as conky.conf

kona,

The /etc/conky/conky.conf is just a bare minimum sample with some annotations. Starting conky without a .conkyrc file will revert to that bare minimum configuration.

Once again, do this. Do not do this as root user. You do not need root priveleges to use conky or to edit the configuration file. Open a text editor. Any text editor. Copy the text meemaw posted. Paste the copied text into your text editor. Save the file as /home/(yourusername)/.conkyrc. You will then have something substantial to look at when you start conky.

Maybe it will help if I say it this way, I tried to open/rename in PCmanFM and I was getting "Denied" so I told it to open this file as "Root" and another window would pop up and allow me to change the file. I also took the old Conky Wizard file (after I deleted the program) and renamed it conky.conf and it started working with the new format. I no longer was getting that ugly black screen. Blind luck maybe?

EDIT: when I use the terminal I get this:

[john@localhost ~]$ conky
Conky: desktop window (1600003) is subwindow of root window (15d)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
sh: /home/john/.ConkyWizardTheme/scripts/ip.py: No such file or directory

 

I think I know why you are having problems.... you are trying to save my file as conky.conf which is in /etc/conky... which you can't do without being root.

Do what djohnston said;  copy my file into leafpad (as yourself, not root) and save it in your /home as    .conkyrc   (you'll have to change your file manager to be able to view hidden files to see it) - from there you can edit it to your heart's content. If you have conky running, you can see the changes you make when you save the file again: that way you can see if it looks the way you want it to. When you get it the way you want it, also save a copy as conky1.txt or something like that as a backup.

Here's the website too... there are loads of conkyrc files there.... and bunches of information;
http://conky.sourceforge.net/

Have fun!!!