Conky: Some great looking conkies for your linux desktop

Conky really can make a desktop look a lot more attractive. If you are not familiar what is a conky, definition is given below from the mother site:

"Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD"

I was searching for some great looking conkies yesterday and found some really cool ones.

But, for n00bs, you need to install conky from software repository. In terminal, type
$sudo apt-get install conky-all

For debian, type it without sudo in the root terminal. It's a small file with will get installed in seconds.

Conky lua is currently my favorite and I am using it for both my computers.

CONKY LUA

Doesn't it look awesome? A more closer look at the conky:

Lua has versions for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. Download the file from here. Instructions to install are pretty simple:

1. Put "conkyrc" into ~/.conky
2. Put "clock_rings.lua" into "~/.lua/scripts
3. Run conky: conky -c ~/.conky/conkyrc

You can put it at the startup applications to automatically start the conky, whenever your computer is switched on. It works well with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian Squeeze - I have checked both. Works well with XFCE as well.

Also other conkies which caught my attention, I have used some but haven't all in the list below. The links to download the conkyrc and other files are given below with a glimpse of the conkies.

FUTURISTIC CONKY



FIENZA CONKY 
(English Version also available)



CONKY8 2 CORES




CONKY LUA NEXT GEN




CONKY SONOGRAPH





HTC HOME CONKY



WINDOWS 8 METRO STYLE CONKY

 

DREAM CONKY




These are some of my favorite conkies. You can check Gnome-look for more conkies.

In most of the cases conkies are easy to configure. Also, they make desktop really cool. Try out some conkies if you are using Linux.