Conky (software)
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Conky is a free software desktop system monitor for the X Window System. It is available for Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail inboxes, Arch Linux updates, many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious, etc.), weather updates, breaking news, and much more. Unlike system monitors that use high-level widget toolkits to render their information, Conky is drawn directly in an X window. This allows it to be configured such that it consumes relatively few system resources. Conky was hailed as "one of the best maintained, and definitely one of the most useful, programs in the world of open source" in Linux Magazine. It comes pre-configured in the default installation of Pinguy OS and CrunchBang Linux.
Conky is a free software desktop system monitor for the X Window System. It is available for Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail inboxes, Arch Linux updates, many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious, etc.), weather updates, breaking news, and much more. Unlike system monitors that use high-level widget toolkits to render their information, Conky is drawn directly in an X window. This allows it to be configured such that it consumes relatively few system resources. Conky was hailed as "one of the best maintained, and definitely one of the most useful, programs in the world of open source" in Linux Magazine. It comes pre-configured in the default installation of Pinguy OS and CrunchBang Linux. Users have created and distributed many customized scripts, demonstrating Conky's modularity and versatility in function and appearance. A thread on the Ubuntu forums has grown to over 2,000 pages of users sharing their configurations. Note: As of version 1.10 Conky has changed the syntax used. conky.config = { alignment = 'middle_middle', background = false, border_width = 1, cpu_avg_samples = 2, default_color = 'white', default_outline_color = 'white', default_shade_color = 'white', draw_borders = false, draw_graph_borders = true, draw_outline = false, draw_shades = false, use_xft = true, font = 'Free Mono:size=30', gap_x = 5, gap_y = 60, minimum_height = 5, minimum_width = 400, net_avg_samples = 2, no_buffers = true, out_to_console = false, out_to_stderr = false, extra_newline = false, own_window = true, own_window_class = 'Conky', own_window_type = 'desktop', stippled_borders = 0, update_interval = 1.0, uppercase = false, use_spacer = 'none', show_graph_scale = false, show_graph_range = false } conky.text = ${time %H:%M} A simpler example of the old syntax: update_interval 30 own_window yes own_window_type desktop use_xft yes xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=14 alignment bottom_right TEXT ${time %H:%M} Default configuration file location is or . On most systems, " " is , and you can find the sample configuration file there ( ).
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