Description:

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-statgrab ttf-droid 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.tar.gz and type in terminal in the same directory that has been extracted.
$make
$sudo make install
$conky-colors {options}

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=pt --cpu=4 --network --hd=default --pidgin

For a working weather script you NEED to define, in a user specific config file, a partner id and registration code for the weather.com xoap service. For this purpose copy .conkyForecast.config in /usr/share/conkycolors folder to your home and setup as required.

bbcweather widget don't need any kind of registration

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 Weather Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869328
Conky SSL Mail Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869771
Conky Pidgin Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=969933&highlight=pidgin+conky
Conky Rhythmbox Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=928168&highlight=conky+rhythmbox
Conky Banshee Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7683570
Conky Exaile Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=926041
+++ If you can, say thanks to him for this great work +++

If you choose --todo option, create a file called ToDo.txt in your home and open /usr/share/conkycolors/bin/task file to install this script. This one will help you to easy add and remove tasks

finaly, alt+f2 and type conky.

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!

KWON PROBLEMS:
Lua/bash scripts work with conky 1.8.1, but most of the python scripts still doesnt;
Python scripts work with conky 2.0pre, but lua/cairo doesnt :S

HELP WITH CONKY:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865




Changelog:

5.1.2(2011-06-09)
* Fixed bug in conkyClock scripts (Thanks to samsagax)

5.1.1(2011-06-06)
* Added option to create a new task in conkyTask
* Better display of tasks in terminal and conky
* Cosmetic changes in calendar

5.1(2011-06-04)
* Added --task option
* Added conkyTask script, the easier way to manage tasks into your desktop!
Usage: ct [add|done|del|show|list|help]
Options:
list - list all tasks
add - add a new task to the list
done - done the task of the list
del - remove the task from the list
show - show selected task
help - show this help message

* Added --yahooweather option, a simple weather monitor
* Removed --todo option

5.0.3 (2011-06-03)
* Improvements in Board Mode
(you should use this mode with --weather option for a "better" look)

5.0.2 (2011-06-03)
* Fixed bug in all HD scripts with conky >= 1.8.1 (Thanks to samsagax)
* Update Kaivalagi's scripts

5.0.1 (2011-05-26)
* Work with GNOME 3
Lua/bash scripts work with conky 1.8.1, most of the python scripts still doesnt

5.0 (2011-03-30)
New board mode:
--board - Enable board-conky mode
options avaliable with this mode:
--w=(width) - Set width of your screen
--h=(height) - Set height of your screen
--cpu=(number) - Set number of cpu cores [max=2]
Quad-core support (but it only looks good with resolution superior than 1280x800)
--nobg option
--weather=(area_id) option
--unit=(C|F)- Force output temperature either in Celius or Fahrenheit
New ring mode, inspired from conky-gray by hardball
You have to manual edit the /usr/share/conkycolors/scripts/conkyRingCPU2.lua file for dark and white themes (just change the first lines)
* Added --wireless option to the conky-cairo mode
* Added French language (thanks to actarux)
* Updated all Kaivalagi's scripts
* Small changes
* bugfixes


 

+ Recent posts