Friday, 8 November 2013

My personal conky installation guide .

How to install Conky and use Conky Manager

Intro:- Conky is a system monitor for LINUX and  BSD operating system its main function is to show stats of pc such as CPU usage, memory  usage, disk usage etc.Conky is highly customizable and can also show you anything from music playing to new mail received but for that you have to go into scripting and other complicated procedures so for complete newbie here is the most easy way to  get started.

So this is a absolute beginners guide to conky.
Installing conky is pretty easy on any  Linux distro but i am mainly focusing on ubuntu distro so here it is just follow the simple steps.
  1. Step 1:- Open terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T)
  2. Step 2:-  Type: sudo apt-get install conky conky-all now it will ask for password enter the password.
  3. Step 3:-Installation of conky manger can be started   by typing the following code :  sudo apt-get install conky-manager  now terminal will ask about password do that. 
  4. Step 4:-Open dash by pressing super key and search for conky manger if it was installed its logo will appear left click it .
  5. Step 5:-Now you will see a window having 4 tabs Theme , Edit , Option ,About.
Now select a theme and  it will appear on the desktop immediately now go to Edit tab and adjust according to your taste .      

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