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Posted 03-02-2019 at 07:37 AM by schulidr (An open source user evolution)

I feel like I need to catch up on some things. The last couple of days have been pretty good as far as progress in getting my computer set up exactly how I want it. I know I have probably said this several times, my wife tells me I do this all the time, but I keep finding just one more little thing that I want to do that will make things easier or more convenient, or just cool. So for now, I have my profile(s) all setup and configured to exactly how I would like them. I am not going to use a...

schulidr

LQ Newbie

Posted in New to Linux

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Lubuntu conky and compton

Posted 07-20-2014 at 09:13 PM by t1nm@n (Tux and Me)
Updated 07-21-2014 at 12:00 AM by t1nm@n (To add category)

Tags compton, conky, lubuntu

Getting a good desktop with effects like shadows and stuff is the challenge here. After some fiddling around (conky doesnot play well with compton), I was able to get a working setup.

1. Installing compton

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:richardgv/compton
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install compton

2. Open /home/<user>/.config/compton.conf, create one if it doesnot exist. Put these in

Code:

# Shadow
shadow = true;			# Enabled

...

t1nm@n

Member

Posted in Lubuntu

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Conky - Lightweight system monitor in openSUSE

Posted 05-11-2009 at 05:36 PM by rbkumaran

Tags audacious, conky, cpu, imap, linux

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD. Conky has more than 250 built in objects, including support for a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk usage, “top” like process stats, and network monitoring, built in support for IMAP and POP3 and many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious). Read More

rbkumaran

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Posted in System, Utilities

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