Installation of Linux performance monitoring tool Conky

For open-source users, a good system monitoring software is expected by users. Different from the wide variety of Windows system monitoring software tools, the Linux monitoring software can be expressed in number, among them, Conky software can be said to be representative of excellent apps. Conky is an open-source software used for System Monitoring of open-source systems. It can be used in Ubuntu, openSUSU, Mint,
Monitoring Software Used on Fedora and Debian. Conky not only can monitor the system well, but also its simple and elegant appearance makes many users regard it as an application "pendant" for desktop decoration.

Conky is highly configurable and can monitor many system parameters, such as the CPU, memory, swap memory, hard disk usage, and other States of the machine; the temperature of various hardware; system Process (top); network status; battery power; system information and email sending and receiving; various music players MPD, XMMS2, BMP, Audacious) control.

Unlike other system monitors that require high-level component toolboxes to render their information, Conky can be rendered directly in the X Window, which means that Conky can consume less resources in the same configuration. In addition, the Conky after installation is very beautiful and can play a very good decorative role. Many people use it as a pendant.

Next, let's talk about how to install the Conky software in the Linux release version. This article mainly demonstrates in Ubuntu.

Download the Conky link on Ubuntu

1. Run the following command to install Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian:

Sudo apt-get install conky-all

Run the following command to install Fedora:

Yum install conky-all

2. You can download all Conky files from this link: Click to download

3. The downloaded folder is as follows. decompress it manually.

Download and decompress

4. You can see the following six folders:

Decompress the file

5. select the desired folder. For example, if you want to install Conky in Linux Mint, You need to select Conky Mint-lua, if you want to install it in Ubuntu, You need to select the Conky ubuntu-lua file, and so on.

Create a folder on Ubuntu

6. Now you can open the selected folder. Here we select the Conky ubuntu-lua folder. You need to rename conkyrc to. conkyrc and move the file to the Home folder.

Rename and move

7. Now we can see that the renamed folder has been moved to the Home folder.

Home folder

8. Now you need to create a. Conky folder in the Home folder. And move the two folders (clock_rings.lua and new-ubuntu-logo.peg) in Conky ubuntu-lua to the folder.

Create a new folder

9. Now you can open the conkycr file to edit it. The command is as follows:

Gedit. conky

10. Now in the open document, you need to set /~. Change lua/scripts/clock_rings.lua ~ /. Conky/clock_rings.lua, for example:

Code Change

Effect after Conky is installed on Ubuntu

11. Now you can open the terminal and run the conky program.

You can set the items you need to monitor as needed, and then you can see the configuration as shown in the following code, which is both beautiful and practical.