Sunday, February 1, 2009

Install Conky in Ubuntu

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.

1. Install conky
Quote : apt-get install conky

Then, to see the result, enter alt + f2 then enter conky. Finish... ;)

If u want to display conky on desktop, follow this step.
1. Download : conkyrc
2. Then rename to .conkyrc
3. Move the new .conkyrc to your /home/kunkun/
4. Create new file
Quote : gksu gedit .conky_start.sh
5. Paste this code into .conky_start.sh
#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 && conky;
6. Save and exit
7. Then, Quote : chmod a+x .conky_start.sh
8. Then, System->Preferences->Session->Startup Srograms
Click add, then paste /home/kunkun/.conky_start.sh
9. Then Ok.
10. Done.

Enjoy ubuntu... ;)

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kunkun-laptop .... ;)