Mintconky

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Created 3 years ago, edited 3 years ago.
Status changed 7 months ago

Author:

dawnrazor

Status:
Under dev. review

Score:

449
613 votes

Idea:

I'd love to see a newer version of conky (which I totally love by the way). The only thing lacking conky-wise is some decent formatting and layout tools.

It fits really well into the Mint simple elegance category & is so light on the resources it puts desklets to shame.

Comments:

2 weeks ago	grzegorzdabrowka	mean default configuration for distrybution, witch play good and stable without error is good and easy to do idea, interface for this configuration is beter idea but too meny work. I propose my universal configuration from witch can be cut part code. http://htmelek.republika.pl/
1 month ago	albertfuller	Giving the user an easy way to configure conky is a great idea
4 months ago	bug67	As a fan of Rainmeter on the Windows side of things, it would indeed be nice to have Conky be as easy to set up. As it is right now, I still use Screenlets. they are easy to use and set up. I even customized a few by changing file names and such. But, who knows how long or if they will continue to be supported? A special Conky just for Mint sounds like an awesome idea!
5 months ago	jmdekoning	Awesome idea i would really like to see this in future linux mint releases with also a standard Linux mint conky like the one mentioned under me. http://linuxmint-art.org/content/show.php/Conky-LinuxMint+Nadia?content=155428
5 months ago	Brahim	I made a conky for Linux Mint Nadia and I published it at http://linuxmint-art.org/content/show.php/Conky-LinuxMint+Nadia?content=155428 I used the official Linux Mint colours and logo. I have suggested a Linux Mint Ultimate Edition with conky preinstalled at http://community.linuxmint.com/idea/view/3505
6 months ago	Redsandro	Conky is 8 years old, and it's nice to run on microwaves and fridges. But everyone who's got more than 512MB of memory in his machine should join the future and install screenlets instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenlets
6 months ago	Octoberator	Would be nice, but Conky is pretty easy to use as-is. And you can find lots of pre-made Conky configurations online.
6 months ago	akanashiro	something like this? http://h-41.deviantart.com/art/conky-TABBED-updated-release-324994340
6 months ago	sunewbie	weather is causing problems. It's not sunny days always :) - end user like me find it difficult to add weather module P.S. deleted previous comment
6 months ago	sunewbie	weather is causing problems. It's not sunny dasy always :) - end user like me find it difficult to add weather module
7 months ago	Prinny	+1. A mint custom conky would be great. Just something basic, without the weather would be fine IMO. Process, usage, kernel version, connections. We can always add, but it would be great to have a nice default mint conky.
7 months ago	Nooby4Ever	Since it's under dev review i might throw this idea in: Rainmeter is an conky's winodws variant but it's more powerful in means of options and available skins (just take a look on deviant art). The problem is it's made for windows, they have had some calls for linux coders but have ,so far, found none. Fun thing is both are written in c, and i know it's a hell of a job but if some skilled person have time for it Linux Mint can bring out it's own rainmeter linux port which has a larger skin bas than conky. I know this probably won't happen since it's a lot of work (i assume) but a linux version of rainmeter could bring some people to Mint. (you wouln't need to start from scratch, you can take conky as a base for the showing on the screen ect)
8 months ago	zapbuzz	great idea :)
8 months ago	MFMassimiliano	One of the problems present now on Conky, or at least some of its most famous addons, ConkyForecast, is the inability of giving forecast taken not by weather.com, but from other web-weather services. Various scripts are available online, but they're not user-friendly and sometimes they present various obscure parts, when it comes to proceed with the configurations.
8 months ago	bluemeda	promote this +1
9 months ago	Nepal12	I'm in the promotion :D
9 months ago	timothy23	I really like this idea. Conky is great by itself and along with a ConkyControl package would be wonderful in Mint.
10 months ago	sunewbie	+1 @Qrugs
10 months ago	Qruqs	Even though I am quite confident using the Terminal, there is only so much information you can assimilate reading ASCII documentation of highly technical gadgets. A little tool to set the most important parts to get it up and running in roughly the state you had imagined, would be a great help. Plus, if you had this aid, you could later read in the settings file what setting affects what, and educate yourself of its inner workings, too.
11 months ago	steveking	I love this idea, I have seen so many great examples of conky usage in the forum but have never mastered the beast myself. config tool would be a great advantage for any users that are new/shy to conky
11 months ago	cypher-neo	XFCE Voyager 12.04 has an amazing ConkyControl package! I would love to see that come to Mint!!
11 months ago	_git	It would be great. I cannot get Conky to work on Mint, after some time running flawlessly it dies without an apparent reason.
11 months ago	sunewbie	Just like voyager 12.04 Linux They have awesome conky control. One of the Best implementation of XFCE along with conky and AWN
1 year ago	wei2912	Conky is a great application, but an easy to configure GUI please... i don't think new users want to be "tortured" by the terminal (no offence to power users who i am part of).
1 year ago	sunewbie	This will be useful to end user like me. As someone said, I love conky in Pinguy. Promoting.
1 year ago	afei418	I appreciate if there has one simplly configurated conky. I do not have enough time and patience to go to the detials. Thanks a lot.
1 year ago	crismblog	A good idea, promote it. And I would like to see a conky installed by default in Mint.
1 year ago	latinomanz	I just tried to use Conky and it was HARD, i could not start it, I read I had to use the terminal for that and still I could not get it to work with the terminal, but anyway by default I demote any idea that involves using the terminal for anything, we have to create everything using a GUI because new users will run away if they have to use the terminal, so I wont support Conky.
1 year ago	barrio	There are nice formatting scripts out there, should be no prob to implement conky with a cool design.
1 year ago	MadManStone	think it should look cleaner tho
1 year ago	gofer83	Conky in Mint by default?? I'M TOTALLY FOR!
1 year ago	nicabod	(More) I should have read at least some comments before posting, but what I posted still stands. I did not have a look at the .conkyrc file; perhaps it's written humanely! A well-written config. GUI, it seems to me, would be a lot of effort to create, but I'm not a developer.
1 year ago	nicabod	I discovered Conky in one of the special minimum-OS Linux partitioning/recovery toolsets, probably Parted Magic, which fits onto a small (~8 cm) CD. It had been configured with a transparent background, but readability was still quite good, nevertheless. Type face was Courier-like. It looked just lovely! I wanted one! When I downloaded and installed Conky into Katya (GNOME), I was shocked! It hijacked the upper-left corner of my screen space, had a black opaque background, and could not be moved. I'm thinking in terms of "appalling" or "cruelty" regarding the default configuration. At first, it didn't seem configurable. When I studied it, it seemed that I would need at least half an hour to learn how. 'Bye-bye! Mint developers could set up a default configuration, at least.
1 year ago	Lendo	Conky is the first thing I set up on any distro. I've got my .conkyrc saved to a flash drive for easy install.
1 year ago	marksuci	http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/710/prikazzaslonax.png/ My LMDE.
1 year ago	carbonic	A simple system for this would be awesome. Used quite a bit of time myself to set up something simple.
1 year ago	Iamwithin	I just took Pinguy's version of Conky and edited the .conkyrc file to my hearts content. Running it right now as transparent in Mint 12 both Gnome 3 and MATE.
1 year ago	oscar799	Idea put forward for consideration
1 year ago	blueXrider	Tried it, doesn't work with ATI Radeon 9800. Using Screenlets instead.
1 year ago	SirGalahad	Ok, good idea.
1 year ago	sadi_pu	hey check this for mint conky. http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/545 It may help you. ;)
1 year ago	sadi_pu	I think that one day we've mint's openlogo in openlogos font like ubuntu n others have!!Than it is not any matter to make a new conky! :)
1 year ago	jtb2	brilliant idea. i'm down.
1 year ago	hessam	Very Good Idea,Mint With Its Own Conky Is More Lovely
1 year ago	blueXrider	I like Conky but it leaves something to be desired. If it were MintConky yeahhhhhhhh might be a whole different thing
1 year ago	vrkalak	Many of the other Linux OS-distros have a Conky on the desktop, as default.
1 year ago	obakfahad	I think conky developers should make a graphical setting manager.
1 year ago	wyrdoak	something like a python script that gives you some kind of a GUI for building a MintConky .conkyrc might work. I found one that builds wallpaper sideshows by making .XML files, that seems to work for me after I made a few changes, just don't know enough to build one from scratch.
1 year ago	McLovin	There is a GUI config tool for conky, but it is very unstable atm, and needs alot of work. I am thinking about trying to look at it, and maybe see if there is something I can do to make it work with the Mint philosophy. I love conky, and use it on all my Linux installs, and write tons of different configs, to show everything from basic system activity, to fetching my emails, and displaying the weather.
1 year ago	grimdestripador	More Code Please
1 year ago	Nikola_Nenadic	does anyone working on mint conky if answer positiv send me a code to help?and if answer is negativ, who want work with me on that idea.
1 year ago	SunWukong	This is a great idea. I would totally use Conky if it was easier to configure.
1 year ago	Pranav	A Very good idea!
2 years ago	grimdestripador	or mintify conky
2 years ago	pfjap-paco	It would also be great to have some type of GUI or something to configure it. Right now, it's rather tedious to get it configured and running.
2 years ago	groovydaddy	I like having Conky on the desktop as a way of tracking all of my resources. I do not like configuring it though. Not that its terribly difficult or anything, just a hassle. I would like to see something in the start menu, like on Vector Linux Light 6.0, where you can activate or deactivate Conky. This works like a switch, so if you want it or don't want it, you can turn it on or off. I think there should be some sort of menu to choose from at least a couple of preconfigured settings for Conky as well. If users know how to configure the Conky bash file, as I do, these users can tweak it further if desired.
2 years ago	Dutch70	They should at a minimum have 1-2 new styles with every new version on Mint. I recently installed DreamLinux & all I had to do was go to admin or something and select "Conky"
2 years ago	orionthehunter	I'm gonna guess that what the OP really wants is a GUI configuration tool for conky that would make it more like other Mint tools. I personally don't see the point. If someone feels like building the tool, by all means do it, but it seems that a GUI config tool would inherently limit the capacity of conky that people tend to love.
2 years ago	tirebiter	I learned of Conky when investigating different platforms implementing LXDE, which to me, makes it kind of a pseudo-utility for lightweight desktops & window managers. Since it run Mint on my Acer ao-0532h, I've been on the rampage to find that perfect lightweight window manager. I agree with some of the comments that Conky is geekwear, one reason being that you really have to do your homework to make something nice and useful. (For instance, finding a decent html list of rgb colors.) Then there is the journey through all the .conkyrc files on it's website to start the learning process. Once Emerald is a workable and solid option for all Mint versions, then it would be a good time to have a Mint-Conky. Even though you can have cpu/memory/net monitors on a panel, there is soemthing extremely satisfying about booting onto a desktop that show you are only using 89 mb after login!! So for me, it definitely has it's place with LXDE and XFCE for sure.
2 years ago	kanha	i love mint conky
2 years ago	epoche	I would love a personalized mint conky!
2 years ago	yndesai	I like the conky but I have installed Docky which is even cooler . . . .
2 years ago	ferdi6917	that's interesting, i'd like to see mint has its own conky
2 years ago	hardaur	Love conky and would love to see some mint love! : b
2 years ago	mrcleanwithhair	I love conky. Though I must say that new users, or users unfamiliar with conky might run into issues when they do things like change their backgrounds? If conky is black and they change to a black background all sorts of issues will arise in #linuxmint-help and the forums...
2 years ago	harrison	I wouldn't put conky in the main edition. BUT I would put it in the FluxBox edition. The idea of conky and Mint Fluxbox just sounds so right to me. A minimalistic OS with a minimalistic system monitor/email do-hiky/whatever you can dream up sounds good. I am promoting it for the Fluxbox edition NOT for the mint family
2 years ago	Allu2	Sounds like a good idea if done right, Imagine new user who logins for the first time and sees conky showing weather, new emails and so on.. :)
2 years ago	linXea	conky isn't really something that you usually put in a distro by default. Those who want to use conky I believe want ot configure it all by them self.
2 years ago	BrianT	I think there should be a quicker and easer way to get the conky ball rolling. But the basic formatting and layout construction of it's .conkyrc file is it's coolest appeal. So having a multitude of different pre-constructed formats and a GUI layout mechanism would really turn me off. So I'm only half way into the idea. imho.
2 years ago	andreylosev	I don't see any reason to include it by default- most people don't need it. However, conky isn't just a system monitor- I think most people would like having a stylish, lightweight way (unlike desklets) of projecting the time, the weather, their inbox, etc. onto the desktop. My proposal would be to have 2 packages: conky-mint and conky-stock. The first one would have a setup wizard and a graphical config tool so you wouldn't have to edit the .conkyrc file. The second would be just the stock conky that is currently in the repos.
2 years ago	Angtagapagligt	It isn't important to have this in Mint "by default". The people who need it can install it from the software-manager. You just can deliver software by default if the biggest part of the users use this software (such as picture-viewer, web-browser, pdf-viewer etc.). A system-monitor like conky is used by 10% of the users. I don't have installed it and I don't need it - and by the way I'm a admin. The gnome-system-monitor is for the most (all) people completely enough.
2 years ago	simpleman619	While I've been a Windows power-user for many years (since the Win 95 edition, actually), the Linux arena is very new to me (as in, days...). I've always been a Linux enthusiast from afar (because of lack of stability and security by windows), but due to the (formerly) difficult installation (last attempt was back when redhat 5 was out), I gave up on Linux, thinking "Linux is for super nerds and administrators". I've never used Conky. I did, at least, go back and read the posts ABOUT it for the last nine months. Now, I'm super pleased with the new Linux Mint 10 RC, and I personally think FROSTYC said it best: "Mint is one of the easiest to use distros out there. Adding things that the average Linux-novice will find useless is just wasted resources & confusing to them. Isn't the goal of Mint to make an easy to use distro that anyone can use? Well seeing RAM usage & other statistics on the desktop is not helping if you have no clue what these numbers mean! If you want Conky, you can install it from the package manager. But novice users may have never heard of Conky, will think it's something built-in to the OS & likely won't be skilled enough to remove it in the package manager. Then will proceed to talk about Linux being garbage... Besides, I don't want to have to remove it every time I install Mint.". If you're really a Linux enthusiast, and want to see it prosper into the general publics eye (knocking the crap out of the MS GIANT), you shouldn't forget about the newbies. Without newbies, we're just a bunch of nerds in the far reaches of space, going nowhere fast...
2 years ago	KittyKatt	Wrong. Conky is a system monitor. It can output important information about your system on a regular interval for you to easily see.
2 years ago	omns	Conky is a toy and should be treated as such.
2 years ago	KittyKatt	I'm in favor of keeping Merlwiz's package for ConkyWizard around. I'll have to try it out sometime soon.
2 years ago	tanmays	Although it's cool to code conky configs... a GUI would be nice for the non-technical Mint users. A nice idea.
2 years ago	phil	I have been using conky for about a year, but got started making my own when I tried out #! about 3 months ago. I like it very much and I like to see the tools added to the repositories as Merlwiz is doing. It is not a noobie thing, though, partly because variables used in conky are not the same for all hardware. But it is great fun and useful to monitor temperatures, cpu and ram usage particularly. Monitoring temperatures has saved my computers many times here in the tropics which, believe it or not, are quite dusty at times. It should only be available in Mint from the repositories and not built in like it is in #!.
2 years ago	ssk77	conky + fluxbox would look really nice
2 years ago	Abd3l	Conky-wise is lacking layout tools but the formatting is actually not bad.
2 years ago	sajukktheeternal	only if a way could be found for it to obtain a decent UI. Otherwise certainly not, the philosophy of this program is totally different to mint. No UI? Why? Is there any reason at all? Mint is user-friendly. I don't like user unfriendly applications, let alone "user-shove-off" applications. And as long as it isn't user friendly, it has no place in mint. Screenlets could be used instead.
2 years ago	merlwiz79	I have built the i386 version of conkywizard. It requires qt4 core and gui. I put it in my REPO.
2 years ago	merlwiz79	Well I took a look at ConkyWizard that axe1668 posted. With ikeys help I got it to use custom images. I will make a package later. It's a little buggy but you can delete the ~/.ConkyWizardTheme folder to fix it. Look here for updates on it: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=50345&p=301215#p301215
2 years ago	71KR117	Maybe a GUI for editing Conky can be made? Lots of lines scare me!
2 years ago	turin13	Conky is far beyond Google Gadgets, in my opinion. So, I promote this idea.
2 years ago	ghost4782000	Definitely support the idea of keeping conky going.
2 years ago	grimdestripador	I like conky
2 years ago	KittyKatt	Has conky-colors been mentioned yet? It's a very good tool for setting up a nice looking conky.
2 years ago	axel668	There IS a conky UI (http://code.google.com/p/conkywizard/), you'd only have to add it to the repos. Even without GUI conky would be a good idea, add a decent default configuration and that's it
2 years ago	darkwaymcdan	I personally think a conky GUI could be done by merely having a WYSIWYG program to edit the config file. Then, code-literate people would still be free to edit the config file. Also there could be an option to submit your layout, or use other peoples layouts.
2 years ago	baffle-boy	how about mint superkaramba? ;) i love KDE!
2 years ago	Kaye	I have a version of this GUI in the works right now using only PyGTK and Glade. It is nothing like ConkyGUI (which is more of an IDE than a graphical frontend). My version is a subtle mix of personal configuration (all handled through a simple interface, no text editing) and WYSIWYG style formatting. As others have said, the nature of a WYSIWYG editor is that conky will lose some fraction of its functionality; however, I expect when it's finished it'll be an effective tool that will make conky easily accessible to everyone.
2 years ago	dragonias	I only learned about conky today (thanks, #linuxmint-help! :D), and I really love it, not only because of its elegance and simplicity, but especially because of its incredible customizability. I've already written a couple scripts to display useful stuff in it, and i'm very satisfied. I definitely agree that conky should get more attention, but I'm quite unsure how it could keep its customizability if there was a GUI configuration -- I'd just stick with the conf file.
3 years ago	greatbigdragon	Oh yeah, decent formatting and layout tools (graphical frontends?) would be great for conky, but for a config file, conky.conf is actually pretty easy to deal with.
3 years ago	greatbigdragon	I like Conky. It doesn't take much to look up some info on how to configure it to your liking, and you can put all kinds of real-time information into it. A+!
3 years ago	fangtoby	Great idea. I Support.
3 years ago	KrashLC3	Great idea. I Support.
3 years ago	Esteis	Installed and running by default is not a good idea, I think. What I _would_ find cool, is that if you do install the conky package: (1) It adds itself to the autostart. In other words, that all you have to do is install the package, and it just works. No need for fiddly fiddlings. (2) The default .conkyrc is one that looks good on the default Mint desktop. Specifically, the current default settings lack transparency, so you get a big ugly black block on your nice green background, and then you become disheartened. This is not right. We are Linux Mint, and we don't dishearten our people.
3 years ago	waka_choko	We would LOVE to see conky in the minty way. Conky will add more elegance to mint. see the screenshots: 1- http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/CONKY-colors-2.jpg 2- http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/CONKY-colors-3.jpg 3- http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/conky_colors_20091218.jpg 4- http://blog.conky.be/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/124144-1.jpg
3 years ago	Lopau	I'm nooby in conky, but I really like it.I already lost a couple of hours getting some scripts. But until now I didn't find one that suited me perfectly. I think I'll have to waste some hours in conky variables. It should exists am easy GUI for it, not like conkyGUI.
3 years ago	baffle-boy	what about the similar KDE tool, i forgot it's name...
3 years ago	jatwood	I too agree that conky is more tailored for more advanced users at this time and it would be better to be left out as a default app at the moment.
3 years ago	pazuzuthewise	I also am a conky enthusiast, and would welcome an easy tool to edit conkyrc. But neither conky, nor this tool should occupy the place on the cd. And since not all Mint users like them, they shouldn't be part of the standard configuration, because it really doesn't take more than some seconds to install them from the repo. Btw, I checked out the Conky GUI java-based conkyrc editor with syntax highlighting mentioned by Alexio, & it's pretty good, although it has a little big dependencies for what it does: sun java 6 and scala-library
3 years ago	linuxmint	This would be awesome
3 years ago	justin	@KittyKatt - I'm down @Alexio - Good find - I actually did not know about that utility and was looking to start dev'ing one myself. I'll poke in it and see how feature-complete it is...
3 years ago	KittyKatt	@justin - Sounds good. :D
3 years ago	Alexio	Conky GUI is a graphic editor that aims to quicken the customization of Conky files. It requires the Java Runtime Environment (version 1.6 or higher), the Scala library (version 2.7.3 or higher) and, of course, the latest version of Conky.
3 years ago	justin	@KittyKatt - let's make it happen? =)
3 years ago	KittyKatt	Is this still wanted? I'm more than willing to whip up some nice looking conkyrc files for this if so.
3 years ago	jkw	Not as default. But a updated version in the repo would be nice.
3 years ago	juan_carlos	What the hell is mintconky?
3 years ago	Rufus	Many not so experienced users of Linux have problems installing, configuring, and using Conky. An easy-to-use Mintconky version would be very helpful, indeed.
3 years ago	breusshe	While I know a lot of folks love these sort of tools, I find them irritating. I'd say include it for those that like it since the population that would use it is probably more than a small portion of the total, however, off by default, please.
3 years ago	captainhaggy	A toolbox software, so that really EVERYONE could build it's own configuration, based on the software/hardware of the PC, that would be awesome. For the moment it would be a first step, to integrate the .conkrc from the fluxbox edition to the main edition, I guess.
3 years ago	justin	I'm sure that I know of a few people that would be willing to create some Conky configurations. Of course half of the fun is customizing it to look how you want.
3 years ago	Mdyter	i would be happy to have a app to manage and edit my conky. i would like if it will include scrips like Weather, email, multimedia player support, and others. it must have an simple option to enable/disable conky from destop too. love conky.. =)
3 years ago	mati75	+1 for conky
3 years ago	haruspexed	please no conky running as default :/ next request will be a dock and some desktop widgets in mint yeeez dont you have something better to do when looking to lucid's artwork desaster...
3 years ago	sdim	I think a Mint edition of Conky could be useful.
3 years ago	davedarkblade	I never used conky and I think and I think those who want to conky can install apart
3 years ago	Joeasaurus	I agree on the up-to-date version for the repo's please but don't have it running by default unless you're going to have a nice way to switch it on and off. -1 for the GUI configurator too. Half the fun of conky is messing with the config files :)
3 years ago	Christian	What about the package screenlets ? Could this be a valid replacment for conky ?
3 years ago	categgs	Conky installed and running from install would imo be a great idea. Take a leaf out of #!crunchangs book and have a list of useful keyboard shortcuts along with the usual system info but mintyfied. Over on the crunchbang forums several users have managed to use simple scripts to transform conky into something good to look at and not just information about cpu etc.
3 years ago	Kendall	The more I think about it, the more I think this would be a good community project. Get together some attractive .conkyrc files, take some screenshots, throw together a simple how-to guide, and start a thread in the forum. I can't agree that Conky would make an effective default application for each edition, but it would be good to know that it's supported for those who want it. It's saying in the Fluxbox CE as it's very much a staple in a lot of Fluxbox setups.
3 years ago	williamsonday	I reluctantly agree that conky is really an application best suited to a more experienced user. Additional documentation and more basic templates might be a plus, however.
3 years ago	GhoS	I don't believe most new users to Linux have a need for Conky. I found it unwieldy to figure out myself (considered still a relative newbie to Linux). The vets want it, they can install it. It doesn't need to be in it by default.
3 years ago	berkah	YES - that's what I am looking for!!!! Just ready-to-use installation.
3 years ago	FrostyC	Mint is one of the easiest to use distros out there. Adding things that the average Linux-novice will find useless is just wasted resources & confusing to them. Isn't the goal of Mint to make an easy to use distro that anyone can use? Well seeing RAM usage & other statistics on the desktop is not helping if you have no clue what these numbers mean! If you want Conky, you can install it from the package manager. But novice users may have never heard of Conky, will think it's something built-in to the OS & likely won't be skilled enough to remove it in the package manager. Then will proceed to talk about Linux being garbage... Besides, I don't want to have to remove it every time I install Mint.
3 years ago	KittyKatt	I found this to be very simple and easy to use when setting up my first few. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/CONKY-colors?content=92328
3 years ago	WillemUK	I agree with a lot of peoples view of Conky. However...it should be implemented so it fits nicely into the desktop art. Not as an afterthought and just put it somewhere for the sake of it.
3 years ago	Alexio	@Kendall - I like the Conky layout with statistics line at the top ( http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5968/screenshotfrom20070824aqd0.png ) with a pretty simple setup: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=276282
3 years ago	Kendall	Conky will be in the next Fluxbox CE, if someone has a good layout idea then by all means lay it on me.
3 years ago	y2kcorvette	I agree, Conky is great!!
3 years ago	heltonbiker	The sort of high level system monitoring ideal for non-specialist as I am
3 years ago	wackyseb	Not for me, really geek and useless software
3 years ago	oscar799	Good idea,individual users would be free to customise it as much or as little as they choose.
3 years ago	Craig_Dem	Yes, this should be included. But only with very simple things. Conky is great but also very complicated to setup and get working right for a first time user. If we are going to include conky, we will need to include a simple way of configuring it or at least use a lot of comment lines in the .conkyrc file. Removing it must be simple for people who don't want it and help files and pages easily find ways to edit it to your own specific taste. (That of course don't get in the way of a more competent user."
3 years ago	sausageandeggs	Could't agree mre, conky is the first thing i put on any distro i use!!
3 years ago	davidmiller	+1 for conky +0 for config gui Would suggest an easy one click "Don't show this on startup" option as well if you're going to enable it by default. Std useful stuff: Processor, RAM & Disk usage, Top processes, ip address -- e.g. http://pastebin.com/m152b5381 Love regards etc
3 years ago	TerminusEst	Totally agreed. Conky installed by default would be awesome.
3 years ago	KittyKatt	I could make a standard layout for conky. What would be the requested things that people would want to see in a standard layout?
3 years ago	AgingTechnogeek	I like Conky a lot but have not had the time to learn to properly configure it for my personal preferences. A nice looking, easy to understand ans use configuration GUI would be appreciated by many Mint veterans as well as new users.
3 years ago	Iunthanaka	I agree: a mintified Conky should be added by default and made configurable via GUI. In my opinion the only viable alternative is the screenlet called "Sysmonitor".
3 years ago	vrkalak	A simple basic Conky would be nice. Both PuppyLinux and #!Crunchbang have a Conky as default.
3 years ago	SeanBest	Awesome! Love Conky, would love to see some sort of automated config maker even. based on some simple questions and guidelines, that can easily be altered later via the actual config file.
3 years ago	skambale	The screenlet - InfoPanel is a good example that Conky can adopt for GUI based configuration, instead of editing conky.rc file that not everyone will be comfortable with
3 years ago	yaspess	agree
3 years ago	pirate_inc	great idea, once you work with Conky can keep your computer controlled in a simple and elegant...
3 years ago	brucey	I would luv to see this implemented also .. Brucey
3 years ago	motocamp	I also love conky and would be happy if it will become part of mint

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