2.7 Conky additional info

[kevil99]

First and Foremost I LOVE Ultimate Edition
HANDS DOWN THE BEST BUILD EVER!!!!!


Id LOVE to see some additional info in conky.

I have no real understanding of how conky works. I only have it running because it was preinstalled in 2.7

I was curious as to if i could change the text color from gold to another color.
Mostly id love to have info on my video card displayed.
I have an EVGA GeForce 9800GTX installed. can i add this?

[2hot6ft2]

Glad that you're liking Ultimate Edition,

To change the color go to Places > Home folder then press Ctrl+h or click on View > Show hidden files
Then click on .conkyrc and Display. In the file you will find the line
default_color e6df7e

That is the color code for conky which you can change to whatever color you want.
To get the color code for a color go to System > Preferences > Appearance > Background.
At the bottom of the window you will see "Style" and "Colors" then 2 boxes. Click on either one of the boxes to open the pick a color window.

You can play around with it to find a color you like which will be displayed in the right side of the box below the dial, and the color code will be in the Color name box. Once you pick a color copy the color name without the # sign and paste it into the .conkyrc file replacing the code that is already there like this

The original conky color (yellow)
default_color e6df7e

The new conky color (bright red)
default_color FF2517
(upper or lower case letters, it doesn't matter in this file)

Click the Cancel button in the Pick a color window (otherwise you'll make a color change to your desktops background).
Save and close the .conkyrc file.

To make the change to conky take effect without rebooting open a terminal and run these one at a time (no sudo needed).

Code: Select all

killall conky
conky

There are a lot of things that can be done with conky but I'm not sure about adding the graphics cards info. to it.

To learn more about conky here are some good places to start.
Beginners guide to conky (a little dated but still good info.)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=867076

Conky weather forcast (don't overlook this one it' real good and it guides you thru setting up the conky hardcore PPA, or you can enable the conky hardcore PPA in Ubuntu Tweak now)
Applications > System Tools > Ubuntu Tweak > Source Center > Unlock > Conky Hardcore PPA > Sync
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869328

Conky files and screenshots
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8713982

Conky GUI (makes it a little easier to find coding errors when first starting out)
http://conkygui.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/conkygui/files/

Conky Hardcore
http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/?page_id=144
http://www.linux-hardcore.com/forum/ind ... board=80.0
http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/?page_id=851

Conky Astronomy pic. of the day
http://maktfri.wordpress.com/2010/01/27 ... -in-conky/

HOWTO setup multiple Conky sessions
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/h ... y_sessions

Have fun, but beware conky can be addictive.

My conky right now.