- Base install
-
- Gentoo provides an ebuild to quickly and easily install
- Conky. Pay particular attention to the the USE flags. You'll
- most likely want X11 support (
- X), and make sure you select the USE flags for any
- music players (other than MPD) which you want. XMMS (
- xmms), Audacious (
- audacious),
- or XMMS support via the xmms-infopipe plugin (
- infopipe).
-
-# Example line to append to /etc/portage/package.use if you don't
-want the
-default USE flags.
-app-admin/conky xmms infopipe -ipv6
-
- In addition, the
- truetypeUSE flag compiles support for TrueType fonts
- with the use of Xft. Most users will want this as well.
- Once you have your USE flags correctly set up, it's time to
- install Conky!
-
-emerge -av conky
-
- You can test Conky to see how it will look by running the
- command
- conkyin a terminal. This will likely give you a good
- reference to how it will look and what you want to change, add
- or even remove.
-
-$
-conky
-
- Once you have an idea of how Conky looks, you can now move
- on to configuring it!
-
-
-
- Configuring Conky
-
- By default, Conky will look for a configuration file in the
- users home directory located at
- ~/.config/conky/conky.confThis file contains all
- the configuration options, and the static text, colors and
- other variables which control what data is shown to the user.
- Conky also provides a great sample configuration, located at
-
- /usr/share/doc/conky-version/Conkyrc.sample.gzMake sure
- to replace "version" with the specific version of Conky you
- have installed.
-
-$
-mkdir -p ~/.config/conky
-$
-zcat /usr/share/conky-1.6.0/conkyrc.sample.gz >>
-~/.config/conky/conky.conf
-
- Make sure to replace "1.6.0" with the specific version
- of Conky you have installed.
- Now, open up the sample configuration in the text editor of
- your choice. You may notice that there are two separate
- sections of the configuration file. The first section of the
- file, contains the programs configuration options and controls
- how it acts. This includes things such as the
- update_interval, or how often Conky will update the
- information on the screen. The second section contains the
- actual text, graphs, and variables which are rendered on the
- screen. This includes things such as the system uptime (
- $uptime), cpu usage (
- $cpu) and anything else you want to be shown. The first
- section of the file starts right from the beginning, the
- second section is comprised of everything after the line which
- says "
- TEXT". Comments in the file start with
- #, but keep in mind that even if a line is commented
- out in the second section of the file, the text will still be
- rendered to the screen.
- Lists of all the available configuration options and
- variables are kept at
-
- http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.htmland
- http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html. Also,
- there's a few great sample configurations and screenshots of
- working configurations at
- http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html.
-
-
-