Configure conky-Lua in Ubuntu (11.10 & 12.04), Fedora, debian and LinuxMint | Howto Conky
Conky
is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any
information on your desktop. There are many nice themes available for
conky that can display clock, CPU usage, ram usage, swap, disk, net and
more, one of these nice themes is Conky-Lua,
this theme (See screensot bellow) allow you to display nice rings for
Clock, cpu …, the theme is available for Ubuntu, Linuxmint, fedora, and
Debian.
In this post i will show you step by step on how to install and configure this awesome conky script called Conky-Lua. The installation has been done in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta1. As usual, i tried to make the post newbies freindly
1- First of all we need to install conky, use the folowing command:
- For Ubuntu, LinuxMint and Debian use:
sudo apt-get install conky-all
-For Fedora use :
yum install conky-all
3- Now go to your Download folder and extract manually the file (double click on the archive or right click and select extract)
4- Now extract the 6 archives by selecting and extracting them
5- Now select the folder you need, for example if you want to install it on LinuxMint select Conky Mint-lua, for Ubuntu use Conky ubuntu-lua (In my case i`m installing this on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin).
6-Now open the folder you chosed (For Ubuntu use : conky ubuntu-lua folder) and rename the file called conkyrc to .conkyrc, then move it to your home directory.
7- Now move the renamed file .conkyrc to your home directory
8- Now Open your home directory and unhide the folders, create a new folder called .conky and copy the other 2 files to this new folder(PNG image and clock_rings.lua).
9- Now open the file .conkycr (Right click on the file and use open with text editor) to edit or by command :
gedit .conky
10- Now change the patch to the new one in the home folder (See screenshot bellow):
/~.lua/scripts/clock_rings.lua
to
~/.conky/clock_rings.lua
11- Now open terminal and run conky
conky
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