CONKY-colors

Now it's easy to customize your desktop!

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.

CONKY-colors is an easier way to configure Conky.

This conky script support multilanguage:
Bulgarian, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish

How to install
Go to a terminal and type:
$sudo aptitude install python-statgrab ttf-liberation hddtemp curl lm-sensors conky-all
$sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
$sudo sensors-detect #answering Yes (default) to all questions, even that last one that defaults to No

Now restart your session

Download and extract the conky-colors.tar.gz and type in terminal.
$make
$./conky-colors --help
$./conky-colors
$make install

Ex: if your cpu is quad-core and you want the noble color, with hd, network and pidgin monitor and all in portuguese
./conky-colors --theme=gnome-noble --lang=pt --cpu=4 --network --hd=default --pidgin

For a working weather script you NEED to define, in a user specific config file, a partner id and registration code for the weather.com xoap service. For this purpose copy .conkyForecast.config in ~/.conkycolors folder to your home and setup as required.

bbcweather widget don't need any kind of registration

For a working photo widget you need to specify a file or directory in conkyPhoto or conkyPhotoRandom script in ~/.conkycolors/bin/

Update your font cache:
$sudo fc-cache -v -f

+++ SCRIPTS INSTRUCTIONS +++
Conky Weather Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869328
Conky SSL Mail Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869771
Conky Pidgin Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=969933&highlight=pidgin+conky
Conky Rhythmbox Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=928168&highlight=conky+rhythmbox
Conky Banshee Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7683570
Conky Exaile Script: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=926041

If you choose --todo option, create a file called ToDo.txt in your home and open ~/.conkycolors/scripts/task file to install this script. This one will help you to easy add and remove tasks

finaly, alt+f2 and type conky.

To run conky at startup, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications, click "Add" and add the path to the startupconky.sh file[~/.conkycolors/bin/conkyStart]

that's all folks!

If you have any ideia to improve this project, just let me know.

3.19.4 (2009-12-30)
* Added a custom mode to the themes:
--theme=custom and then:
--default-color=(value)
--color0=(value)
--color1=(value)
--color2=(value)
* Added "simple" layout to HD widget

3.19.3 (2009-12-29)
* Better calendar position with --clock=off option
* Auto-detect the right position of photo and cover widgets, based on what you choose.
* Added 3 more cover player themes: case, glassy and vinyl(new)

3.19.2 (2009-12-23)
* Added new clock style, --clock=lucky
* Added new "players" layout, inspired in the new mpd script
* Added new gnome-carbonite and gnome-tribute themes
* Removed --cover option
* Added banshee=(cd|vinyl|simple|default) option
* Added exaile=(cd|vinyl|simple|default) option
* Added Rhythmbox=(cd|vinyl|simple|default) option
* Updated Bulgarian Language (thanks to Dushevadeca)

3.19.1 (2009-12-18) (See 3° screenshot)
* New MPD script
* Improved conkyPhoto script, and now use a widescreen mode instead a square;
* Improved bbcweather widget, show now the max/min temperatures
* Improved calendar/date widgets, month abreviation in modern clock and removed the first line in calendar
* Fixed clock speed in NVIDIA widgets
* Fixed classic/slim scripts in clock widgets

3.19 (2009-12-03)
* Added new nvidia widget, very wanted feature! I also need some users feedback because I can't test it :(
* Added new bbcweather widget, it's a simple weather monitor and don't need any kind of registration
* Added photord widget, a new random mode for conkyPhoto, you just have to setup your image folder to see the magic ;) (thanks to paulvictor)
* More organized directory. Also, the main directory was renamed from .conky to .conkycolor

Required conky version (1.7.2+)