This article will describe installing conky which is a system monitor tool running as desktop widget.

Install Conky On Arch

To install from PPA, type the following commands one by one in a terminal window: sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install conky-manager Updates will be installed automatically if you have enabled automatic updates enabled on your system. Conky Variables. First, let's define the various aspects of conky. CONKY - Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. Since its original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from its predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window.

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• 2. ${HOME}/.conkyrc

1 Install conky

2 ${HOME}/.conkyrc

${HOME}/.conkyrc is config file for conky.config and conky.text. You can also use /etc/conky/conky.conf.

How To Install Conky On Linux

• CPU core number is started from 1 (cpu0 means average of cores). Add entry of ${cpu cpuN} for your cpu cores.
• The following command treats eth0 as network interface name. Change your network interface name of ifconfig.

3 Autostart

Make conky to be start automatically on login. You can use gnome-display-properties instead of the following command.

Reboot machine.

4 Execution result

The conky widget is displayed on desktop.