Starting a conky is a bit more tricky on Gnome. We will show you what stepst to take in Gnome. Normally you would look into gnome-tweak-tool and add the application in Startup Application. We will add conkyzen.desktop from...
Read MoreConky’s are installed via the ArcoLinux repo packages in the scripts but you need to select it with conkyzen. We show you how to start a conky. It is the same as on ArcoLinux. So not much to tell you here. Next article we...
Read MoreIn the video I talk a great length how to analyze how the conky’s in ArcoLinux work. We figure out what application is responsible for loading the conky’s. 1 am-conky-session Then we add it to the startup...
Read MoreIt all boils down to ONE SETTING. And loosing some comfort and gaining a conky. We need to set “Show Desktop Icons” OFF. That is the best and easiest solution. Then you start conkyzen and choose your conky. Use CTRL...
Read MoreWe show you where you can normally set any application to autostart in Budgie. Use the gnome-tweak-tool. But this tool does not provide help for commands just for .desktop files from /usr/share/application so we need to do a...
Read MoreThere are conky’s and desklets in Cinnamon. Let us check out the difference. You can find conkyzen in your menu and move it to the favorites panel. Two things to remember am-conkyzen is our overview of all conky’s...
Read MoreConky is a free software system monitor. It is available for Linux. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures,...
Read MoreWe use the scripts to install all the necessary ArcoLinux packages to get these conky’s in and then we need to do some manual copy/paste work. We need to copy/paste all the conky’s from the /etc/xdg/conky folder to...
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