Conky is a system monitor. It handles a bunch of different system variables, including CPU, disk space, running processes, RAM, temperature, network transfer, and log data. Conky is a fork of torsmo. You can customize the layout, colors, and fonts. It can be a bit of a bear to configure --- it requires significant work with the .conkyrc file in order to get it up and running. Fortunately, you can find a variety of good configuration templates and files all over the internet. (Hat Tip to lyrae for the weather script I currently use)
Installing the package takes the normal route. Fire up a Terminal, and type the following:sudo apt-get install conky
From there, you can launch the application by typing 'conky' into the Alt+F2 dialog, creating a menu launcher, or by adding it to startup.
Speaking of Terminals though, I've been thinking of doing a roundup of my favorite terminal emulators. Currently, I'm a fan of rxvt. What do you use, and why do you prefer it?
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Conky - A Desktop System Monitor
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Wow, what is it that you do? Looks like you could do some pretty powerful stuff with computers. I'd love to find out more about the stuff you know. Pick your brain and such.
Have you tried Tilda? It has multiple tabs and a ton of configuration options. Of course, I don't know anyone who would need multiple terminal tabs open at once (can you run several commands at once on separate tabs?)
Multiple terminal tabs are great, you can be running a different command in each tab. top might be running in one, rtorrent in another, mc (a file manager) in another etc.
Someone once said that X is just a means of having more terminals open at once :-)
My faves are konsole (as I have mainly used kde) and the terminal in ubuntu, I presume its gnome-terminal. It takes a bit of getting used to the different keystrokes for moving between tabs, opening new tabs etc.
gnome-terminal has a great feature that you can click on any url and it will open in firefox.
without a doubt give yakuake a review, I know it's a KDE app but it's really good so at least give it a try ;)
I love konsole. I couldn't live without tabs and it's very customizable. I even install and use it when I'm working in OpenBox as my window manager.
beowuff
Hi,
I'm not sure how, but I've run across your Blog, and it seems that are you are very familiar with Ubuntu apps. In fact, I've subsribed to your RSS feed, and catch it using Evolution, my e-mail client.
I do YouTube videos of my Linux 3D Desktops. BUT, am searching for an app.
I use recordMyDesktop to record my screen activity, use a script to convert the .ogg/Vorbis file output to .AVI then post.
Do you know an app that let's you add "slides", i.e. edit output to include OpenOffice Impress slides?
I've searched everywhere, and am looking for that "Holy Grail".
Thanks in advance for your response.
Regards,
JJMacey
Phoenix, Arizona
www.jjmacey.net/blog
@john:
I have a feeling that you aren't going to find anything to export Impress presentations directly to video, but there may be a workaround. You could record your show with a program like xvid. Alternatively, you could export your presentation to a .swf file or an image file, and use a program like Kino to edit it into a video file.
Anyone think of a better solution?
Hi,
Thanks for that. I've a bunch of YouTube videos @ http://www.youtube.com/user/jjmacey.
I'd just like to edit them adding an "Impress" slide.
Trust me, I've got a lop of things going.
It seems, all some simple.
Regards,
JJMacey
Phoenix, Arizona
www.jjmacey.net/blog
Hi Mary!
Kino won't accept .avi / .ogg files.
To use Kino it seems you need to have Video Camera input.
The search goes on...
recordMyDesktop, add a slide, then post to YouTube.
Thanks.
www.jjmacey.net/blog
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