A collection of graphical conky interfaces to monitor your system.
Keep tabs on your system's cpu, memory, disk, network, battery usage and device temperatures.
- A paginated list of new package updates for the Fedora dnf package manager
- Torrent uploads and downloads for the transmission bittorrent client
- Music player support for Rhythmbox and Spotify
- Read/write io usage for swap disk space
These details are retrieved with the use of small scripts.
You only require to have conky installed on your system.
On Fedora install it by running:
$ sudo dnf install conky figlet
n.b. I recommend using the conky package version 1.11.5_pre
more recent versions may have regressions/bugs (issue 1, issue 2) that cause the theme to behave erratically.
Run the command dnf downgrade conky until you arrive at this version or download the RPM from the web.
Download these fonts:
Create the ~/conky directory and clone this repository
$ mkdir ~/conky
$ cd ~/conky
$ git clone https://github.com/ernesto1/monochrome.gitAlternatively if you only want the conky configurations and their images, you can download the latest monochrome.zip file from the releases page. This way you don't get any of the build assets.
If you are new to conky the wiki outlines items that may require configuration in order to customize this conky to your system, ex. device names such as network cards and hard drives
The music player conky requires the supporting java app in order to function.
You require maven and the java jdk in order to build it from source.
# ::: fedora users
# the java jdk comes installed by default
# to install maven run
dnf install maven
# ::: building the music app from source
cd ~/conky/monochrome/builder/java-tools
mvn clean package
mkdir -p ~/conky/monochrome/java
rm -rf ~/conky/monochrome/java/*
cp -r */target/{lib,*.jar,*.yaml,*.xml} ~/conky/monochrome/javaIf you don't want to build this manually, you can download the latest monochrome.zip file from the releases page.
Go into the conky monochrome folder
cd ~/conky/monochrome
Run the launch script with the theme you want:
| Theme | Command |
|---|---|
| Compact | ./launch.bash --conky compact |
| Glass | ./launch.bash --conky glass |
| Widgets dock | ./launch.bash --conky widgets-dock |
| Widgets | ./launch.bash --conky widgets |
I recommend you take advantage of the launch script's --silent flag. It suppresses conky logging which clutters the terminal (ex. ./launch.bash --conky compact --silent).
To close all conkys and supporting jobs started by the launch script you can run the shutdown command
./launch.bash --shutdown