Originally Posted by
Niemil
I want this one:
...he cried, pointing to one of the more expensive items in the conky shop window.
If you installed correctly you should see a help page when you run this in terminal....
Code:
conky-colors --help
conky-colors is an application that creates a conkyrc according to what options you choose
when running conky-colors
I believe there is no conkyrc created until you run "conky-colors" with some options.
It does not use the config in your home folder, .conkyrc. If you simply run "conky", this is the config used and if that file is malformed or
doesn't exist you will see the default ugly black config.
Running "conky-colors" with options creates a conkyrc in ~/.conkycolors....a hidden folder in your home directory.
It will give you the command to run conky using that config after running conky-colors with options.
eg I chose the first one on the gnome-look page under the heading "OPTIONS FROM THE SCREENSHOT:"......
Code:
glen@Raring:~$ conky-colors --cpu=2 --calendar --photord --clementine=cd --hd=default --network --theme=wise
Ubuntu/Debian distro? [y/N]: y
cp: overwrite ‘/home/glen/.conkycolors/bin/conkyPhotoRandom’?
Your conkyrc was copied to /home/glen/.conkycolors
Generated configuration files are copied to /home/glen/.conkycolors
To run conky-colors and conky type:
conky -c /home/glen/.conkycolors/conkyrc
glen@Raring:~$ conky -c /home/glen/.conkycolors/conkyrc
Conky: desktop window (2400002) is subwindow of root window (294)
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x3000002)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
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As you see I was shown...
Code:
conky -c /home/glen/.conkycolors/conkyrc
or you can use
Code:
conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc
which will work for any user.
If this file was not created when you ran conky-colors <options>, conky will use the sample config
from /etc/conky/conky.conf or if malformed may just quit with error.
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Now you can autostart conky using that as the command in startup applications....
Code:
conky -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc
If using compiz add a pause before starting to give compiz time to load...
Code:
conky -p 15 -c ~/.conkycolors/conkyrc
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