Make Linux Look Better - Conky Desktop - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Comments and reviews: 10
Mike
Chris, I am a fan and learned much from your tutorials. This video sucks! I installed conky. It installed directories and files and works well, but no .conky directory was created in the home directory. I created a .conky directory and I downloaded your project files in it. Unfortunately I can not follow your tutorial because I don't know where the conky directory is on my computer. Now there are in a few conky folders in /etc and /usr and at least two conky.conf files in two different folders.
You just assume folks will know how to download & install conky in a .conky folder in the home directory? May I suggest you take the time to show the entire process from start to finish and not jump in the middle.
Still a fan, but this is one reason people get annoyed with Linux people. You can't just assume people know the foundation from which to build on in a tutorial video.
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Chris, I am a fan and learned much from your tutorials. This video sucks! I installed conky. It installed directories and files and works well, but no .conky directory was created in the home directory. I created a .conky directory and I downloaded your project files in it. Unfortunately I can not follow your tutorial because I don't know where the conky directory is on my computer. Now there are in a few conky folders in /etc and /usr and at least two conky.conf files in two different folders.
You just assume folks will know how to download & install conky in a .conky folder in the home directory? May I suggest you take the time to show the entire process from start to finish and not jump in the middle.
Still a fan, but this is one reason people get annoyed with Linux people. You can't just assume people know the foundation from which to build on in a tutorial video.
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Kelly
Old school : editing individual lines to match the number of CPUs in the system.
New hotness : encapsulating each CPU status bar in its own if/end conditional statement so that one conkyrc file works for ALL the computers you have.
Example : $-if_existing /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9- CPU10: $-cpubar cpu10 10,200- $-cpu cpu10-% $-freq 10-MHz $-endif-
(note CPUs start at 0, so that's why it's cpu10)
Extended example with colors and right justify for mhz speed:
$-if_existing /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9-$-font Bitstream Vera Sans L:size=8-$-color #0077ff-CPU10: $-color #FCFF00-$-cpubar cpu10 10,200- $-color lightgrey-$-cpu cpu10-% $-alignr-$-font Bitstream Vera Sans L:size=7- $-alignr-$-color #BACA27- $-freq 10-MHz
$-endif-
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Old school : editing individual lines to match the number of CPUs in the system.
New hotness : encapsulating each CPU status bar in its own if/end conditional statement so that one conkyrc file works for ALL the computers you have.
Example : $-if_existing /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9- CPU10: $-cpubar cpu10 10,200- $-cpu cpu10-% $-freq 10-MHz $-endif-
(note CPUs start at 0, so that's why it's cpu10)
Extended example with colors and right justify for mhz speed:
$-if_existing /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9-$-font Bitstream Vera Sans L:size=8-$-color #0077ff-CPU10: $-color #FCFF00-$-cpubar cpu10 10,200- $-color lightgrey-$-cpu cpu10-% $-alignr-$-font Bitstream Vera Sans L:size=7- $-alignr-$-color #BACA27- $-freq 10-MHz
$-endif-
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Ken
This is driving me crazy. I just want to make sure Linux is using all my vram on my Old MacPro Linux Mint 20 install. Conky is a starting point but it's not a instant solution.
But what really bugs me is you made this great video but offer no info about where you made the files available. I am at your github but see no Conky reference. The closest project is Material Awesome. I don't think you mentioned that project in this video. But now I need to watch more videos to cross reference. This is taking up so much time just to do something ULTRA basic.
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This is driving me crazy. I just want to make sure Linux is using all my vram on my Old MacPro Linux Mint 20 install. Conky is a starting point but it's not a instant solution.
But what really bugs me is you made this great video but offer no info about where you made the files available. I am at your github but see no Conky reference. The closest project is Material Awesome. I don't think you mentioned that project in this video. But now I need to watch more videos to cross reference. This is taking up so much time just to do something ULTRA basic.
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John
Chris, I followed this tutorial when the video first came out and customized your conky to my desktop. I have now upgraded to a Ryzen 5950 and I cannot find a way to display the temperature from a current generation Ryzen chip. Perhaps you could put out a video specific to AMD chips??? Thanks!!
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Chris, I followed this tutorial when the video first came out and customized your conky to my desktop. I have now upgraded to a Ryzen 5950 and I cannot find a way to display the temperature from a current generation Ryzen chip. Perhaps you could put out a video specific to AMD chips??? Thanks!!
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Boss
It's a really nice conky config, I didn't have to tweak anything and it fits my desktop layout perfectly.
The scripting is over my head but I have the basic idea tinkering with this.
Thanks.
-Edit- I do have to tweak stuff, just not the size of it.
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It's a really nice conky config, I didn't have to tweak anything and it fits my desktop layout perfectly.
The scripting is over my head but I have the basic idea tinkering with this.
Thanks.
-Edit- I do have to tweak stuff, just not the size of it.
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SoulRollerFIN
I can't get my conky to go transparrent in normal window type, need to set it to either dock or panel. In dock mode it sits on top of everything and in panel mode my window tiling doesn't work properly as it thinks conky is a panel.
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I can't get my conky to go transparrent in normal window type, need to set it to either dock or panel. In dock mode it sits on top of everything and in panel mode my window tiling doesn't work properly as it thinks conky is a panel.
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nj
You know why I disliked this video?
You show no installation, you present no GitHub for your startup files,
I dont even know if you installed conky from their main repo, or if u used kali repo,
thanks for nothing really
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You know why I disliked this video?
You show no installation, you present no GitHub for your startup files,
I dont even know if you installed conky from their main repo, or if u used kali repo,
thanks for nothing really
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itech
Hi, great video! Im trying to use conky on kali linux 2020.3 but when I click on the widgets on conky-manager, I never see the widgets... I installed conky-all and conky-manager, thousands of times...
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Hi, great video! Im trying to use conky on kali linux 2020.3 but when I click on the widgets on conky-manager, I never see the widgets... I installed conky-all and conky-manager, thousands of times...
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Yasser
when i wanted to switch from windows to linux i've tested several linux distros and finally settled on garuda kde plasma i had to make some changes but i think it was the best choice at least for me
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when i wanted to switch from windows to linux i've tested several linux distros and finally settled on garuda kde plasma i had to make some changes but i think it was the best choice at least for me
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Dakata
I had problems with starting Conky on boot.
Fixed them by using:
pidof conky >/dev/null && sleep 0s -- /usr/bin/conky --daemonize -c -$HOME/.conky/Titus.conkyrc- as the startup script
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I had problems with starting Conky on boot.
Fixed them by using:
pidof conky >/dev/null && sleep 0s -- /usr/bin/conky --daemonize -c -$HOME/.conky/Titus.conkyrc- as the startup script
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