Conky Manager: A GUI For Managing Conky Configurations

<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>

Conky Manager: A GUI For Managing Conky Configurations

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