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.
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