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Conky Manager Gets New Options, 4 New Themes

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/07/conky-manager-gui-for-managing-conky.html">Conky Manager</a>, a graphical font-end for managing Conky configuration files, has been <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.ro/2013/07/conky-manager-v12.html">updated</a> to version 1.2 yesterday, getting 4 new Conky configurations / themes, as well as some new options.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRGLyNSj7kw6Uq30BIvPlzcecx7YLqs5sVsej072OBrQui1QpHsGUbscVFftMX1KBMEV05y3IkPeYMqbEIwXY24JgQZS-5YjEz3kZb5V8-JypfiAQXrmZX43PB1VHtZMqLeGqxSiNg4k/s1600/conky-manager-1.2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRGLyNSj7kw6Uq30BIvPlzcecx7YLqs5sVsej072OBrQui1QpHsGUbscVFftMX1KBMEV05y3IkPeYMqbEIwXY24JgQZS-5YjEz3kZb5V8-JypfiAQXrmZX43PB1VHtZMqLeGqxSiNg4k/s320/conky-manager-1.2.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Changes in Conky Manager 1.2:</b><br /><ul><li>new option to change the time format (12hr/24hr);</li><li>new option to change the network interface (WiFi/LAN);</li><li>new application icon;</li><li>a "Show Desktop" button has been added to minimize other windows, to make it easier to see the changes you make to the selected Conky configuration;</li><li>added option to import  Conky theme pack.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1_4Ou9TMlm34gd4LjAOGjpYyT2y6Bvyp6qkzS7r5TmI6dE2cxj7Q3tYMz2CtNaSO1D2CyZr4_OaQC_VybsJ280MV-NdahQ0RGhMLJ1Vrwlt_um8GXZLw8hmv5SB1NsnoVSzlIzjSC7w/s1600/conky-manager-1.2-network.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1_4Ou9TMlm34gd4LjAOGjpYyT2y6Bvyp6qkzS7r5TmI6dE2cxj7Q3tYMz2CtNaSO1D2CyZr4_OaQC_VybsJ280MV-NdahQ0RGhMLJ1Vrwlt_um8GXZLw8hmv5SB1NsnoVSzlIzjSC7w/s320/conky-manager-1.2-network.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can see the new Conky configurations / themes added in the latest Conky Manager 1.2:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_toQsOfEiqPCbngcqJlCty527Ba1uGbVSoufBm7kTh-9KBTUkE3FujdMn6SnS3GJCA0JxQY4fhy4DLqR9ZVDwXkNLSi2CcUB7JzEMImlRmwHT8PhOQdErDYYVHcpzgwZI6uF6dS81UTM/s1600/conky-lsd.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_toQsOfEiqPCbngcqJlCty527Ba1uGbVSoufBm7kTh-9KBTUkE3FujdMn6SnS3GJCA0JxQY4fhy4DLqR9ZVDwXkNLSi2CcUB7JzEMImlRmwHT8PhOQdErDYYVHcpzgwZI6uF6dS81UTM/s320/conky-lsd.png" title="Conky Configuration" width="242" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky LSD<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_N25qlyjmq81R_GfFMPikFqyW0-HzIyI_zAyEvi89MddkxL6ttf2ebXp56lmqWaWohb-DOZ1d-u9MCCwcJsuvkbAhCaVsi6n9DtiLqGE6an4MJqAovLNWsZaLhpO-6sOcc1OqBFHKWqM/s1600/conky-miui.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_N25qlyjmq81R_GfFMPikFqyW0-HzIyI_zAyEvi89MddkxL6ttf2ebXp56lmqWaWohb-DOZ1d-u9MCCwcJsuvkbAhCaVsi6n9DtiLqGE6an4MJqAovLNWsZaLhpO-6sOcc1OqBFHKWqM/s1600/conky-miui.png" title="Conky Configuration" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky MIUI</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZ9C-l-Vm7BBVF31i6lPwkUbqaHhyphenhyphen-wPRAITZZB1MN3Zu_EIT06KwpnurLtk5nnFre2WmfvHs45KU1zkI-Zh43kY7SLhyphenhyphenoAGKBnMPJpCEAqtniyVI-YfkxjIwLvHd_09iAl1AfRpQBM4/s1600/conky-seamod.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZ9C-l-Vm7BBVF31i6lPwkUbqaHhyphenhyphen-wPRAITZZB1MN3Zu_EIT06KwpnurLtk5nnFre2WmfvHs45KU1zkI-Zh43kY7SLhyphenhyphenoAGKBnMPJpCEAqtniyVI-YfkxjIwLvHd_09iAl1AfRpQBM4/s320/conky-seamod.png" title="Conky Configuration" width="127" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky Seamod</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuNnPblwsI2Qo-1JJj__f9gcxcACp1XOSIRLx5IiKUWDwPOw8DaJ8sxu3BHhnfNjOFJHtEREMe2QuuOZgeCCYIxhS1LYwURag3EuIEnaySg3cnARbtPkeYbQkVlep47Fr9uNwWwO8iq8/s1600/conky-venti-color.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuNnPblwsI2Qo-1JJj__f9gcxcACp1XOSIRLx5IiKUWDwPOw8DaJ8sxu3BHhnfNjOFJHtEREMe2QuuOZgeCCYIxhS1LYwURag3EuIEnaySg3cnARbtPkeYbQkVlep47Fr9uNwWwO8iq8/s1600/conky-venti-color.png" title="Conky Configuration" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky Venti-Color (8 Core with Clock widget)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlTl7c5TdrqCLWDfGVDmjK9ZE37LNAh8Iwtd7kS7JazzT2bk66dvKv7z4MU-KoVdN1uMG17Rgyq5dXTDJudq3um5JOejXSGm-wOwMtWD4HIwsQgT71m-WyEtKItjVmFIiVrXrZNTcQu0/s1600/conky-venti-color_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlTl7c5TdrqCLWDfGVDmjK9ZE37LNAh8Iwtd7kS7JazzT2bk66dvKv7z4MU-KoVdN1uMG17Rgyq5dXTDJudq3um5JOejXSGm-wOwMtWD4HIwsQgT71m-WyEtKItjVmFIiVrXrZNTcQu0/s1600/conky-venti-color_2.png" title="Conky Configuration" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky Venti-Color (Clock stats + Wifi widget)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>Even more Conky configurations</h2><br />For more Conky configurations you can download the <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/5yb5ambg6h4jack/Deluxe_Conky_Theme_Pack.cmtp.7z">Deluxe Conky Pack by Jesse Avalos</a> - to add the pack to Conky Manager (make sure you have installed the latest version), on the Options tab, select "Import Conky Manager Theme Pack" and select the downloaded "<i>Deluxe_Conky_Theme_Pack.cmtp.7z</i>".<br /><br />You can see a quick demo of the Conky configurations / themes included in the <i>Deluxe Conky Pack</i> by watching the video below:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GnaSVbw6ONk" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnaSVbw6ONk">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>Install Conky Manager in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the Conky Manager PPA and install the application in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install conky-manager</code></pre><br />If you're not using Ubuntu, you can download the code from <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~teejee2008/conky-manager/trunk">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><b>For more info, see the Conky Manager page @ <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.ro/p/conky-manager.html">Teejeetech</a>.</b><br /><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/conky-manager/+filebug">Launchpad</a>. <b><br /></b>

Conky Manager Gets New Options, 4 New Themes

Conky Manager , a graphical font-end for managing Conky configuration files, has been updated to version 1.2 yesterday, getting 4 new Conky...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6vawS-PW-DWTWjpmaAo0QRzb2Y8_oo_SKYZ7dVV9hcE4228tnoYXw8WjjV0CtGhlfMVXF3tgtHRgpPlpT3bV5FIKCaQaikUe05YVYdGClAvdn__5-Va79_-8j7y3PGVDgW4_6ST6PW0/s736/conky-manager_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6vawS-PW-DWTWjpmaAo0QRzb2Y8_oo_SKYZ7dVV9hcE4228tnoYXw8WjjV0CtGhlfMVXF3tgtHRgpPlpT3bV5FIKCaQaikUe05YVYdGClAvdn__5-Va79_-8j7y3PGVDgW4_6ST6PW0/s320/conky-manager_1.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.in/p/conky-manager.html">Conky Manager</a> is a GUI that allows you to easily manage Conky configurations. </b>The latest version - 1.1 -, lets you choose from 7 such configurations / themes.<b></b><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><i><b><a href="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">Conky</a></b> is a lightweight, highly customizable system monitor that displays various info on your desktop.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Conky Manager 1.1 ships with themes ranging from complete system info (memory, cpu, Internet, cpu usage and time) to configurations that only display the CPU usage or Nvidia graphics stats. Below you can preview the Conky themes included in Conky Manager 1.1:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBxKl6kcVZZEg_ZHFPxkNdcT4_xEiph3pryK9Ydx5SsBbB0GBgYWKw7QTmukuLn4lWKQDGPju7ZIuZltBWRh0dEcG5MnYJQI1DH0lkHetHf00QjWwCEVXX8muXixdFdb_Cs_dBmzw3_w/s411/conky-cpu-panel.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBxKl6kcVZZEg_ZHFPxkNdcT4_xEiph3pryK9Ydx5SsBbB0GBgYWKw7QTmukuLn4lWKQDGPju7ZIuZltBWRh0dEcG5MnYJQI1DH0lkHetHf00QjWwCEVXX8muXixdFdb_Cs_dBmzw3_w/s320/conky-cpu-panel.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemyjwkfsXBIeQXPPf-ue-tDYeRcsgsGJWtmxSPZR7LIuh5Awym9MkRtT3AGY4tRaaARwbzQZ-qACsdtC8_q7vY1nStEBTPIGqBH6-VAGT_6D2adQ1IT7PSp9niaT3eZwqZmTeEB0_gNU/s981/conky-goldngrey.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemyjwkfsXBIeQXPPf-ue-tDYeRcsgsGJWtmxSPZR7LIuh5Awym9MkRtT3AGY4tRaaARwbzQZ-qACsdtC8_q7vY1nStEBTPIGqBH6-VAGT_6D2adQ1IT7PSp9niaT3eZwqZmTeEB0_gNU/s550/conky-goldngrey.png" width="550" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTkTdhXAtduCbDEETFAJf5IzZjZiFvnPVaHO7cvSomoN5ip_ml-AxrpeKJN2jz0ML7ShSQz97duUU_ocm6aXgdAA_4G37BS7olHp2179mApg57RC-KlSqDpZc9U__5kRmb1exT0RbmbI/s510/conky-gotham.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTkTdhXAtduCbDEETFAJf5IzZjZiFvnPVaHO7cvSomoN5ip_ml-AxrpeKJN2jz0ML7ShSQz97duUU_ocm6aXgdAA_4G37BS7olHp2179mApg57RC-KlSqDpZc9U__5kRmb1exT0RbmbI/s320/conky-gotham.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLGJ3IOqGYOkoJO_6s0zIC17c2gRzGY-lfUhk7gVRAb6lYnbHv-_DWEzz_MHLeifKgWckl0b06-8r0zMMkWXvDGUrmbBt9gD90Zyja5VG8WP5PKkmjtgYWp211QOC0lou2jU03vd22L8/s499/conky-max-conky.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLGJ3IOqGYOkoJO_6s0zIC17c2gRzGY-lfUhk7gVRAb6lYnbHv-_DWEzz_MHLeifKgWckl0b06-8r0zMMkWXvDGUrmbBt9gD90Zyja5VG8WP5PKkmjtgYWp211QOC0lou2jU03vd22L8/s320/conky-max-conky.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bU7bTOl1lr2yasQ5Y5aXBFlFZPI0wQ5sD7e5FQ2-OnUx36lDJkyQTtx2nXCByNMjHLR3r_OmYbhvMBGRo5jXYRm9DO7soAsYqyfUXMtVqYMula28cafp-tiz9rzkGwpNNxgF-NL9ad8/s230/conky-nvidia-panel.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bU7bTOl1lr2yasQ5Y5aXBFlFZPI0wQ5sD7e5FQ2-OnUx36lDJkyQTtx2nXCByNMjHLR3r_OmYbhvMBGRo5jXYRm9DO7soAsYqyfUXMtVqYMula28cafp-tiz9rzkGwpNNxgF-NL9ad8/s230/conky-nvidia-panel.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWYhX-wUTNbAg_L3fsgqA0jIF4JGoLQ6r9AcOSIiRopXNIsKgkfNXCltJUVilJW-8w95Oor9Zjd_uLXQrNb3CUL_WzPCRpdoKNOlaNkBg9NJEK8WzSq2AFU6Lf9qP9QOM5ilEk96-zKU/s462/conky-torn-paper-clone.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWYhX-wUTNbAg_L3fsgqA0jIF4JGoLQ6r9AcOSIiRopXNIsKgkfNXCltJUVilJW-8w95Oor9Zjd_uLXQrNb3CUL_WzPCRpdoKNOlaNkBg9NJEK8WzSq2AFU6Lf9qP9QOM5ilEk96-zKU/s320/conky-torn-paper-clone.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Using this tool, you can easily enable or disable Conky themes as well as <b>enable or disable modules for each config</b>. For instance, if you use the Gold&Grey configuration, you can enable or disable the following modules: time, net, memory, disk or cpu usage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the <i>Edit</i> tab, you can configure <b>each widget: set its location</b> (alignment, horizontal and vertical gap), <b>transparency and size</b> (minimum width and height, height padding):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Z3r_aOkHjaahP4_rUoa-xooSxm9NhbL-c0m7Krft5M_yBk9L5hIqcHLsLjX3RWNqn-U-7_HTHD6x7P_0ZLc9xz2Vzc8l8FvTXQgu2iRyku_TMjJAINc9dKlBo701-RoQwW3QHApn9xc/s736/conky-manager_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Z3r_aOkHjaahP4_rUoa-xooSxm9NhbL-c0m7Krft5M_yBk9L5hIqcHLsLjX3RWNqn-U-7_HTHD6x7P_0ZLc9xz2Vzc8l8FvTXQgu2iRyku_TMjJAINc9dKlBo701-RoQwW3QHApn9xc/s320/conky-manager_2.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From the <i>Options</i> tab, you can set Conky to run at system startup, import new Conky theme packs if released by the Conky Manager developer, or kill Conky.<br />  <br />There are some features Conky Manager currently lacks, like an option to set the network interface to be used by the net modules, however, according to the Conky Manager developer, the tool should get some new features soon, along with new themes included by default.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The application supports adding extra themes</b> - for how to do this, see Conky Manager <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.in/p/conky-manager.html">release announcement</a>.</div><br /><b>If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/conky-manager">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Conky Manager in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>To install Conky Manager in Ubuntu (and derivates), use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install conky-manager</code></pre><br /><b>For other Linux distributions you can get the code via <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~teejee2008/conky-manager/trunk">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Tony George for the tip! Some screenshots via <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.in/p/conky-manager.html">teejeetech</a></i></div>

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