Conky - a light-weight system monitor

A light-weight system monitor

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 1.3 (new) latest (Aug 31 2005 0630 UTC)

conky 1.3 (changelog) on Sourceforge

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 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/conky co -P conky You can also try the CVS ebuild available from Conky's CVS, or here.