Introduction to Conky and Conky Manager

Introduction to Conky and Conky Manager

Starting with Introduction to Conky and Conky manager, Conky is an Open Source, lightweight system monitor for Linux Operating System. It is a cool tool to show off in front of your mates and displays important system information such as date, time, CPU and RAM usage right at your desktop, and is very convenient and good looking too. ;)

Below are some of the screenshots of my laptop. I use Linux Mint Rebecca Cinnamon Edition. There are literally thousands of themes available on the internet and you can download them for free. Plus, if you fiddle around with the configuration files, you can edit, customize, mix-and match and create your own themes too. :)



To download and install conky, make sure you have a working internet connection. In Linux Mint, go to Menu->Software Manager. Type in your password and search for conky. Install conky and conky-all from the list.



Or open terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install conky

It will also ask for your password. After that, you can run conky from terminal by typing:

conky

And customize it by making changes in the .conkyrc file stored in home// directory. For beginners, it is a bit tough at first, so I recommend you to install the CONKY MANAGER. It is a simple, GUI tool to add or remove widgets, change or edit themes. You can download it from here:

http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html

Or type the following commands in terminal:

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install conky-manager

You can also download the official theme pack from the above link. Have fun. :)

Know more about Conky at Wikipedia.