Do you use a Conky?

[Member fatmac]

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Added my ‘No’ – I like a clean desktop, often just a plain colour background. 😀

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[Member ChPol]

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I made two configurations: one to find a possible technical problem and the other to remind my keyboard shortcuts. Conky is not launched by default. I use my second configuration to display a shortcut not yet memorized (super + h = help ). My installation is not yet “stabilized” so this is very usefull…

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Most of the time my screen is very full, so if I’m running the standard conky, it’s not visible.

I typically leave the standard conky running on my testing setups, but don’t run it on my main system. I am hoping to get the info I need from my system tray. The things that are missing are root and/or /home disk space, updates available, and weather conditions/temp (which I’m testing now). The big problem is that I don’t like wasting a lot of memory on the tray icons, and I wish IceWM had a way to program them without using at least 11 mb each, but the Devs there aren’t willing to create a generic tray icon feature, I think because it would be too difficult. I am not capable or writing anything like that. I admit I haven’t tried to get it all done with a different panel like tint2, or an always visible conky including all the missing features. I guess this is the price of running a WM based desktop rather than a DE. Of course the DE needs way more memory, so its not a fair comparison.

Not sure what reasonable options are out there, otherwise.

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Yes, on testing machines. Otherwise it is toggled off most of the time.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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fatmac wrote:

Added my ‘No’ – I like a clean desktop, often just a plain colour background. >

Hi there fatmac – good to ‘see’ you back here.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by anticapitalista.

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I like it on the desktop all the time. 🙂

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anticapitalista wrote:

Hi there fatmac – good to ‘see’ you back here.

Thanks. 🙂

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Lead Farmer wrote:

After I install Antix I thought the Conky is a nice thing, it show a live data and useful info, I chose a nice wallpaper so the Conky text show well.
Recently I started to use random wallpaper from the web with Upsplash (I post about it here) And now the Conky in more of a eye sore, sometimes when I change the wallpaper, the colors of wallpaper is similar to the colors text or the graph of the Conky, make them unreadable

This is key. I use conky all the time, but it does limit the choice of wallpaper. There is also the option of a simple edit in mtpaint to insert a black bar, roughly the width of the conky window, at the right edge of the image. Or editing the conkyrc to have a solid background instead of default pseudo-transparency.

I dont use a toolbar (waste of screen real estate) so conky is the way I get all the usual toolbar info, including current date and time. Does require a quick switch to a new workspace to see it though.

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I love conky. At the same time i just like it simple but with all informations 😉
I have not yet completely adapted it to antiX. 2-3 things are not yet reconfigured.

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Since english is not my native language and my knowledge is too poor to represent complex things I use a translator.
These are known not to be perfect. If you translate one of my posts from german to english into other languages, the result will be worse and worse. Therefore, I post in both english and german, so that non english speaking users can have the german text translated directly into their language.

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… Yes, but only sometimes via conkyToggle.sh

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No.

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Usually, yes. When running Live, I use default conky. On installed systems I use the one I adapted from LegacyOS – very similar to the MX-Linux’s one, also displaying the weather (I made that conky available here in the forum a while ago).

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