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Conky is a light-weight system monitor. 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. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display the output from stdout. We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a developer is welcome. Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches. Installation: For users compiling from source, make sure you have the X development libraries installed. This should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev". Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoos Portage... simply use "emerge app- admin/conky" for installation. There is also usually an up-to-date ebuild within Conkys package or in CVS. Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debians repositories soon (by mid-September, hopefully), and then Ubuntu shortly thereafter. Until then, "dpkg -i" the .deb package to install. Example to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note that some configure options may differ for your system): sh autogen.sh # Only required if building from CVS ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-xft --enable-seti --enable-dou- ble-buffer --enable-own-window --enable-proc-uptime --enable-mpd --enable-mldonkey --enable-x11 --enable-portmon make make install # Optional src/conky Conky probably doesnt compile with compilers other than gcc and icc. It doesnt compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn-casecmp(), optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89). Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I dont know exactly why. You can disable drawing to own window feature in case you dont need it by passing --disable-own-window to configure -script. Whats New in This Release: - FreeBSD cpu info patch - Fixed issue where some WMs dont control conky own_window windows. - Added newly-updated vim file detection and syntax hilighting files to svn. - Fixed issue with graphs resetting colours (sf.net bug #1420473) - Fixed battery problems when charged - MPD code handles broken pipe now, instead of just killing conky - Switch from CVS to SVN. Thanks SourceForge. - Added patch to make $cpu stuff work on alpha (thanks Thomas Cort) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122637#c3 - Stop using override_redirect true -- conky back under WM control when using own_window yes. - Fixed texeci breakage when forking to background is on - Drastically simplified own_window=yes window creation code. - on_bottom and wm_class_name deprecated (they do nothing) - Fixed typo bug in portmon code that caused incorrect monitor data to be displayed.. This is the homepage for Conky, which is a light-weight system monitor.
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