Conky is a free software system monitor for the X Window System. It is available for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages etc.
Install conky on GNU/Linux machine:
- For ubuntu,mint and debian using apt-get or the Synaptic GUI.
sudo apt-get install conky-all - For fedora,opensuse,centos etc rpm base:
sudo yum install conky-all - For ArchLinux:
pacman conky-all
Now install conky theme seamod-mix. But to get all things work we need to install couple more packages(lm-sensors,hddtemp,dmidecode).
you can install those via your package manager. OR visit below links.
After installing above packages you need to change permission of following binaries
sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/dmidecode
other wise hdd temperature, mother board info & temperature won’t work.
Now for pretty look we need to install 2 fonts STYLBCC.ttf and Poky.ttf. if don’t know how to install it,
then follow this link.
Now go to http://weather.yahoo.com and search your city. You will get a zip code of your city like this one
1915035 into urls. Now copy the zip code and open weather file from downloads. Find the line http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=1915035&u=c
and replace zip code with yours & save the file.
Then open conky-startup.sh file and replace below line:
cd "/home/penguin/mybin/conky"
Now save the file and add the script conky-startup.sh to start up application.
Download conky-seamod-mix theme from here