Documentation

Documentation Pages

• Official Conky Wiki.
• View the Conky man page (1.8.1).
• View the Conky FAQ.
• Pretty table of Conky variables (1.8.1).
• Pretty table of Conky config file settings (1.8.1).
• Pretty table of the Conky Lua API (1.8.1).
• View the changelog (1.8.1).

Installation Notes

Debian/Ubuntu

At a terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install conky

Gentoo

Have no fear, Conky is in portage. You can install it with:

# emerge app-admin/conky

or, using Paludis:

# paludis -i app-admin/conky

Arch

Conky is available in pacman:

# pacman -S conky

FreeBSD

Conky is avaible in FreeBSD ports, check FreshPorts for details.

Foresight

For Foresight Linux or any other rPath-based distro:

# conary update conky=cookingwithroids.rpath.org@cwr:all

Compiling from source

You'll need the X11 development libraries, version 6.8.2 or later. package name is probably libx11-dev (on Debian/Ubuntu), as well as the development libraries for any additional features.

The last step is optional, if you don't do this, the conky executable will be in src/.