Friday, March 30, 2012

How to Installations widged Conky-Color

conky-color probably most linux users know what it is widged linux to enhance the appearance and also are important in the conky-color display we can get information from our computers for example with a graphical display of info about the status of hard drive capacity. 

How to installation:
Go to a terminal and type:
$sudo apt-get install aptitude python-keyring python-statgrab ttf-ubuntu-font-family hddtemp curl lm-sensors conky-all
$sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
$sudo sensors-detect #answering Yes (default) to all questions, even that last one that defaults to No

Now restart your session

Download and extract the conky-colors.zip and type in terminal in the same directory that has been extracted.
$make
$sudo make install
$conky-colors {options}

$conky-colors --help [for help]

Ex: if your cpu is quad-core and you want the noble color, with hd, network and pidgin monitor and all in portuguese.
You can only choose one of the themes offered conky-color by copying and pasting in the terminal
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conky-colors --lang=en --theme=human --cpu=2 --cputemp --swap --updates --proc=5 --hd=default --network
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conky-colors --cpu=2 --calendar --photord --clementine=cd --hd=default --network --theme=wise
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conky-colors --sls --weather=brxx0043 --theme=orange
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conky-colors --cairo --cpu=2 --clock=cairo --network --theme=blue
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conky-colors --ring --network --theme=red
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conky-colors --slim --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=white --weather=brxx0043
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conky-colors --board --w=1440 --h=900 --theme=cyan
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For a working photo widget you need to specify a file or directory in conkyPhoto or conkyPhotoRandom script in ~/.conkycolors/bin/

Update your font cache:
$sudo fc-cache -v -f

and finnaly
in terminal copy paste
conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc.

To run conky at startup, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications, click "Add" and add the path to the conkyStart file
/usr/share/conkycolors/bin/conkyStart

spesial thanks to devianart

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