I've just downloaded UE 3.5 and it's cooler , I think, than 3.4. Seems to have that new distro smell. My question regards Conky. How does one change the settings, such show the clock feature or the CPU temp., for example?

Hey!

you can change your conky settings in a file called .conkyrc (/home/username/.conkyrc)

the file isn't created by default but you can find a sample configuration file on your computer.
I'm using Debian, and my sample file to get you started in:
/etc/conky/conky.conf

You'll notice a whole ton of settings, and then a TEXT label. Everything after that appears in your conky file

you asked specifically for cpu use:

$cpu
will print the current usage of your cpu

$freq_g
will print the current frequency your cpu is running at

but there are tons of features - you can even pipe information through bash scripts or python scripts that perform a calculation that results in a number between 0 and 100 and link to it to create your own custom bars.


you can also find a list of variables, and settings you can tweak
/usr/share/doc/conky-all/variables.html
/usr/share/doc/conky-all/config_settings.html

you can also find a list of variables to tweak for the *most current* version of conky here:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html


dig around the website a bit, there is a ton of documentation.

If it's not in exactly the same location you can search for it.

sudo updatedb #to update your search database
locate conky

Oh!

Also, if you've never had an introduction to the manual pages check out (in a terminal window):

man conky


it's a lot of info, but if you push the key "/", type a word, and hit enter, you can search through the document. It speeds things up a little bit.