Conky is a System Monitor written in the ' C ' language and released under the GNU GPL and the BSD license agreement, which is available in both Linux and BSD operating systems. This application is based on the X-Windows system, which originally came from the Torsmo branch.
Characteristics
A concise user interface;
Highly configurable;
It can use a built-in part (more than 300) or use an external script to display the state of the system on the desktop or its own container;
low resource consumption;
It can display a wide range of system parameters, including but not limited to CPU, memory, swap partitions, temperature, process, disk usage, network status, battery charge, mail transceiver, system message, music Player control, weather information, latest news, upgrade information, etc.
In many operating systems such as CrunchBang Linux and Pinguy OS are installed by default;
A little-known fact about Conky.
Conky This name comes from a Canadian television program;
It has been ported to Nokia N900;
The authorities are no longer defending it;
Installation and use of Conky in Linux
Before we install Conky, we need to use the following command to install packages such as lm-sensors, curl, and hddtemp:
The code is as follows:
# apt-get Install lm-sensors Curl hddtemp
Then the detection sensor:
The code is as follows:
# Sensors-detect
Note: When prompted by the system, answer ' Yes '.
Detect all detected sensors:
The code is as follows:
# sensors
Sample output
The code is as follows:
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter:virtual Device
Temp1: +49.5°c (crit = +99.0°c)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter:isa Adapter
Physical ID 0: +49.0°c (high = +100.0°c, Crit = +100.0°c)
Core 0: +49.0°c (high = +100.0°c, Crit = +100.0°c)
Core 1: +49.0°c (high = +100.0°c, Crit = +100.0°c)
Conky can be installed from the software warehouse or compiled from source code:
The code is as follows:
# yum Install Conky [on the RedHat system]
# apt-get Install Conky-all [on the Debian system]
Note: Before installing Conky on Fedora/centos, you must enable the Epel software warehouse.
After installing Conky, simply enter the following command to open it:
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The code is as follows:
$ Conky &
Running Conky Monitor
This allows Conky to run as a window and use the Conky base configuration file located in/etc/conky/conky.conf.
You might want to integrate Conky into the desktop and don't want it to appear every time you have a window, and here's what you need to do:
Copy the profile/etc/conky/conky.conf to your home directory and rename it to. CONKYRC, the starting point (.) is to make sure that the profile is hidden.
The code is as follows:
$ cp/etc/conky/conky.conf/home/$USER/.CONKYRC
Now restart Conky to apply the new changes:
The code is as follows:
$ KILLALL-SIGUSR1 Conky
Conky Monitor Window
You may want to edit the Conky configuration file located in your home directory, and the content of this configuration file is very easy to understand.
The following is a sample of the Conky configuration file:
Configuration of Conky
From the above window, you can change the color, border, size, scaling, background, alignment, and several other properties. By setting different alignment options for different conky windows, we can run several Conky scripts at the same time.
Let Conky use other scripts instead of the default configuration, and how do I find these scripts?
You can write your own conky scripts or use scripts from the Internet, and we don't recommend using any of the potentially dangerous scripts found on the Internet unless you know what you're doing. However, there are some famous themes and Web pages that contain trustworthy Conky scripts, such as the following:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
Http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
In the URL above, you will find that each screenshot has a hyperlink that will point to the script file.
Testing Conky Scripts
Here I'm going to test by running a Conky script written by a third party in my Debian Jessie system:
The code is as follows:
$ wget Https://github.com/alexbel/conky/archive/master.zip
$ unzip Master.zip
Switch the current working directory to the directory you just unzipped:
The code is as follows:
$ CD Conky-master
Rename Secrets.yml.example to Secrets.yml:
The code is as follows:
$ mv Secrets.yml.example secrets.yml
Install Ruby before you need to run this (Ruby) script:
The code is as follows:
$ sudo apt-get install ruby
$ Ruby Starter.rb
Gorgeous Conky appearance
Note: You can modify this script to show your current weather, temperature, etc.;
If you want the Conky to boot, add the following lines to the boot Startup application setting (Startup applications):
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The code is as follows:
Conky--pause 10
Save and exit.
Finally, this lightweight and eye-catching utility GUI package is no longer active and officially no longer maintained. The latest stable release version is Conky 1.9.0, released on May 3, 2012. On the Ubuntu forum, a topic about user-shared conky configuration has more than 2000 pages. (the link to this forum theme is: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865/)
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