'Vital Signs: Monitoring your system with Conky' (PDF). ^ CLI Magic: Lightweight Conky is a system monitor powerhouse Archived at the Wayback Machine by Shashank Sharma on.Conky Archived at the Wayback Machine by Sebastian Wieseler ^ Conky: highly configurable system monitor for X by Casey Stamper on.^ Expert's guide to configuring Conky Archived at the Wayback Machine by Dmitri Popov on.Note: As of version 1.10 Conky has changed the syntax used. Usage example Ī simple configuration for Conky which displays the time on a user's desktop is as follows: A thread on the Ubuntu forums has grown to over 2,000 pages of users sharing their configurations. Users have created and distributed many customized scripts, demonstrating Conky's modularity and versatility in function and appearance.

While Conky is suited for use as a system monitor, it can also be used to gather and display many other sources of information and can be extended with the Lua programming language.Ĭonky has also been ported to devices such as the Nokia N900 and can be ported to practically any system with GCC and an X11 implementation. Conky derives its name from a character in the Canadian television programme Trailer Park Boys. Damn Small Linux, for example, runs torsmo in its desktop root window on the default installation of its Live CD. Torsmo, however, continues to be used in systems where applications that use minimal resources are preferred. Ĭonky is a fork of torsmo, a system monitor that is no longer maintained.

It comes pre-configured in the default installation of Pinguy OS and CrunchBang Linux. Ĭonky was hailed as 'one of the best maintained, and definitely one of the most useful, programs in the world of open source' in Linux Magazine. This allows it to be configured such that it consumes relatively few system resources. Unlike system monitors that use high-level widget toolkits to render their information, Conky is drawn directly in an X window. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail inboxes, Arch Linux updates, many popular music players ( MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious, etc.), weather updates, breaking news, and much more. It is available for Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Conky is a free software desktop system monitor for the X Window System.

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