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conky

Last updated: 2024, Wed Jun 5th at 15:28 CDT

A light-weight utility that can display any kind of information on your desktop.

Official Site GitHub

To Install: #

Preferred method

Use package manager for the standard options. For more advance options use a manual build.

sudo pacman -Su conky

AUR: conky-git

sudo apt install conky
sudo dnf install conky

Systems/Operating Systems/openSUSE|openSUSE]]**

sudo zypper in conky

Build Instructions #

Dependencies may be different then the names listed depending the distro. The ones listed below are for APT packages

Dependencies #
cmake libimlib2-dev libncurses5-dev libx11-dev libxdamage-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev libxml2-dev libxext-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev liblua5.3-dev
Build #
git clone https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
cd conky
mkdir build
cd build
ccmake ..
make 

if you use cmake instead of ccmake you will get the standard build.

Essentials #

Theme pack repos