Greetings fellow Slackers!!

I have put together a Conky config specifically for Slackware which can be found here:

http://sqdnguns.deviantart.com/art/S...onky-104492049

INFO:

Large Screenshot: http://sqdnguns.deviantart.com/art/S...2008-104505310

This is a Slackware specific Conky.

Why?

Because it pulls info from /etc/slackware-version as well as the latest header from the 12.1.0 Changlog. When Pat releases 12.2.0, you can edit the URL of the config to point it to the correct Changelog.

I've been working on this for the past few days getting it exactly the way I want. It is simple and clean, I don't like all kinds of useless graphs and funky bullet fonts when I can have text tell me the same thing. ( This is almost an exact clone of a Karamba I did months ago.)

This is a "free floating transparent" Conky, meaning that if you hold the alt key and left mouse button on the Conky, you can move it anywhere on your desktop. When you do execute the config, it will open "top right".

Feel free to tweak this anyway you want but I will not hold your hand in doing so. Please go to the links that I provided in the commented out area of the script to learn how to do this. Also take a look at other config's, they will give you clues as to how things work.

Enjoy!



Here is the thread for the Karamba I did a while back:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware-636389/

Hope some of you find it useful.

Looks nice, thanks for sharing

Thanks Manny.......

Very nice. Can I ask what the dock in the lower left is?

Thanks for sharing. I've always liked the idea of Conky, but I've never had the time to tailor it to my needs. This should be a good starting point.

Looks nice. What's that dock you are using by the way?

Hangdog42 / dive: What's that dock you are using by the way?

It's the Xfce panel set to "Freely Moveable".......using the Hunny GTK theme and the SudUbuntu icon theme. (As much as I dislike Ubombtu, this is a pretty good theme for my color scheme.)

Hunny: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=93334

SudUbuntu: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=93010

Thanks, looks great. Getting ready to install a customized Slackware 12.1 CD on my system. I've had enough of Ubuntu. Even with editing it's still slower than Slackware will ever be. It even has 2 cores! Is that dual core or 2 processors? Doesn't matter, I can change it.

Do you know if that theme you use (for your windows) comes for Fluxbox or Icewm?

Thanks!

It's a Dual-Core Processor.

I am using this Emerald Theme, Elfin-2:

http://thrynk.deviantart.com/art/Elfin2-64680235

I have not used either Fluxbox nor Icewm so I cannot say whether it will work or not.

Sweet. I may be able to download it an use the various pixmaps it comes with to make a theme from it. I have XFCE, but I prefer window managers to desktop environments. So on my CD, I stole the latest XFCE packages from 12.2 coming out, but no KDE or gnome. Plus, my graphics card is a Matrox g550, made to be a great 2D card. Compiz and Beryl just about crash X on my computer.

Ah thanks. A nice theme/icons but is there a way of not having the panel always on top? I can't seem to find an option for it...

Thanks a lot SqdnGuns for your share, I'll try it tonight

Out of interest what compositor are you using? I'm looking at the drop shadow under the bottom panel. Mine doesn't seem to have one with xfce compositor or xcompmgr.

Using Compiz...........

A belated thanks for this, SqdnGuns. Your thread pushed me into finally playing around with conky (I'd been using gkrellm.)

Also grabbed the wood floor wallpaper, etc - been using standard Flux styles for a while; time to redecorate!

cheers,