Conky Configuration under Linux Mint

Recently idle to have nothing to do, want to put their Linux mint again cool point, show some information on the desktop, because I have installed Cairo-dock, now this is bad, the following simply say the whole process, first you have to install Conky,

sudo apt-get// Online is a one-of-a-kind install conky

Or you can also install in the Software Center, directly search Conky can be found, after installation directly in the terminal input Conky & can run, but the default interface is ugly interface, need so-called theme to match, directly to the online download on the good-looking, address: Click to open the download Conky The latest package for Lua. This package contains the clock style, the plugin supports the operating system logo and the plugin configuration file etc.

Unzip the compressed package downloaded above, there are a number of installation packages, according to the supported operating system named (with Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc.), Ubuntu system to use Conky ubuntu-lua.tar.gz this package. Unzip the package directly. Suppose this package is unzipped under/home/username/conky-ubuntu (this directory needs to be replaced by its own machine decompression directory).

This step is configured with more steps. Follow the command below to ensure foolproof. create a. Conky folder under the user directory and store the operating system's logo image. Note that this directory is a hidden directory. (Ctrl + H shortcut key to see if the creation has been successful)

mkdir. Conky  

Just unzip the Ubuntu logo copy above the directory created below

cp/home/username/conky-ubuntu/New-ubuntu-logo.png. Conky

Create a. lua/scripts/directory under the user directory that is used to store the plug-in's style configuration file.

mkdir. Lua  

mkdir.  subordinate files for lua/scripts//. Lua

Copy the Conky clock configuration file that you just extracted to the new directory above.

Cp/home/username/conky-ubuntu/clock_rings.lua. lua/scripts/

Copy the configuration file for the conky you just pressurized into the user root directory, and rename the file to. CONKYRC CONKYRC

Then the configuration in the ~/.CONKYRC slightly modified, such as the address of the query weather forecast, you need to change the city ID part of your city ID, so that the plug-in can query the weather conditions. The city ID can go to the site http://weather.noaa.gov query, such as Beijing is Zbaa, you need to ~/.CONKYRC in the.

{Weather http://Weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/lrbs Temperature Temperature 30    // Those uppercase letters are the corresponding IDs you want to replace.

Finally, the terminal runs

Conky &  

About setting up auto-start, add in "Launch application Preferences"

-P 40 is to let the system into the interface after waiting for 40 seconds after the start, to prevent some problems (specifically what the problem I do not clear), in addition I also appeared, Conky blocking other windows problems, the solution is to modify. CONKYRC, talk about the background. No change to background yes. Of course there are many things that can be customized, such as I added a RSS subscription function, it looks good

Finally look at the effect:

Conky Configuration under Linux Mint