Conky
This is the homepage for Conky, which is a light-weight system monitor under active development. The latest stable release of Conky is 1.3.
Sourceforge project page (file bugs, feature requests, and more).
Join us in #conky on irc.freenode.net
Download Conky
Conky 1.2
conky 1.2 on Sourceforge
Vim syntax highlighting (new)
A Vim syntax highlighting script for conkyrc is available, thanks to Ciaran McCreesh.
Screenshots
See more screenshots and their conky config files.
Documentation
- View the man page (1.3)
- Pretty table of conky variables (1.3)
- Pretty table of conky config file settings (1.3)
Installation notes
Debian/Ubuntu
dpkg -i conky_1.3.0-1_i386.deb
(probably have to do this as root, i.e. sudo)cp /usr/share/doc/conky/examples/conkyrc.sample.gz ~/
gunzip conkyrc.sample.gz
mv conkyrc.sample .conkyrc
(notice the ".", and make sure .conkyrc is in your home folder = ~)- try running conky by typing "conky"! enjoy!
Gentoo
Have no fear, Conky is in portage. You can install it with:
# emerge app-admin/conky
Compiling from source
You'll need the X11 development libraries, version 6.8.2 or later. package name is probably libx11-dev
./configure
make
make install
(optional. if you don't do this, the conky executable will be in src/ )
Getting involved
There is always plenty to be done, such as adding new features, testing, writing docs et cetera. If you're interested in contributing, please feel free to do so by using the handy tools on the sourceforge project page, including the mailing lists. You can get the latest code by checking it out from anonymous cvs like so:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/conky login
You can also try the CVS ebuild available from Conky's CVS, or here.
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/conky co -P conky