Make Linux Look Better | Conky Desktop

Let's go over making Linux look better with Conky Desktop. Some may have caught the live stream, but this is a new github project I started that should make it so anyone can add these widgets to your desktop. .

[tnbspotter]

I just switched to linux. Day one, install linux and packages. Day two, setup conky. Day three, setup conky. Day four, setup conky.

[bergino]

Really disappointed with the fact that you did not have your sunglasses for the whole video.

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Chris. I used conky for many years. Now I just run a bunch things like gtop, htop, tty-clock, cmatrix, mapscii etc in tilix on a workspace or two to get my widgety kind of urges out of the way.

[thomasporcu]

Truly a channel that is gaining - and will continue to gain attention. Just wanted to let you know that the content pushed out is very professional and easily understandable. Great stuff all together! Keep up the good work!

[justsomeguy]

Every time I get caught up in doing something like this, I remember that I don't ever look at my desktop so it's pointless.

[ultraprimez]

Is there an update to this video where we can install conky manager and manage things easily a bit for newbies.

[KamenMinkov]

11:13 what if you're editing in VSCode - it will show you a preview of the colour right in the editor and you won't have to go back and forth to pick a colour.

[RupertoCamarena]

The quality from your cam is amazing!!

[bradleyp]

I use Conky to monitor cpu performance, storage space on each drive and network activity. Wrote my own Lua script for CPU usage has each core having and inset 180deg curve showing each thread. It works well with Intel and AMD processors.

[kevinklement]

Love your videos, but please stop calling Arco Linux "Acro Linux". It's not linux for acrobats.

[PaulNaama]

Remove the clock from conky. It's weird having two clocks. Just an idea.

[lovestinker]

Thank you for walking us through your configuration file. You helped me get past some of my configuration issues which had me not running conky (but hacking away at it on my free time). So happy to finally get something more usable then what I was playing with (multiple files as you said).

[shindousan]

2:28 For years I've had almost all of this (except the top lists) on an XFCE panel taking only a tiny space using only default items, no extra dependencies. Ancient, lightweight technology, no manuals required.

[stevenroberts]

I'm knew to Ubuntu and I've been using Conky from watching your video and I'm really liking it. I'm going to re-watch this video because I've added some new things to my rig

[Your_Degenerate]

Even using Conky Manager there have been many themes I just couldn't get working or some aspect was off. I did find that many that were opening with a border just needed one word modified in it's script to change it from decorate to decorated. Others needed fonts that I have no clue what they are and some were wonky regarding transparency. At this point I think Rainmeter is ahead in terms of ease of use but I'm not aware of it working on Linux, just Windows.

[ROTPx]

Lol, rolling in with those cool glasses. Awesome video, thanks!

[cybersechs]

GREAT VIDEO Titus!! I've always wondered how to get those good settings, I used the clunky conky manager, but never seemed to work out how to. Your conky settings are great!

[jrs]

So I'm getting this error when I run this script, is there any way to fix it? I tried commenting out the offending code in the GTK.css and it worked until I rebooted and would not let me log in until I put it back.

(nvidia-settings:5527): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:20:54.702: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:73:46: The style property is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version
BTW: I'm new to Linux so learning as I go.

[SoulRollerFIN]

I can't get my conky to go transparrent in normal window type, need to set it to either dock or panel. In dock mode it sits on top of everything and in panel mode my window tiling doesn't work properly as it thinks conky is a panel.

[mcfincher]

When I try using ${cpubar cpu1} my bar goes all the way off the screen to the left of the window. I tried including an offset, and adding the width and height parameters also. The height will change but the start of the bar is all the way off my screen to the left no matter what I try.