Conky For Mac



  1. Conky For Mac Pro
  2. Conky For Mac
  3. Conky For Macbook

Conky can enhance your desktop aesthetic by enabling themes and widgets. After installing, you can edit the /.conkyrc file, for a range of unique elements to decorate your desktop. If Conky is not your cup of tea, you can explore other desktop environment options like GNOME, Cinnamon, Xfce, KDE Plasma, etc. Conky puts 'conky' in front of functionname to prevent accidental calls to the wrong function unless you put you place 'conky' in front of it yourself. Luabar (height, width) functionname (function parameters). Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. Originally a fork of Torsmo, Conkys torsmo-based code is BSD licensed. New code in Conky has been licensed under the GPL 3.0.

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  1. AKNOWLEDGEMENTS conky - Original conky conky-for-macOS - The port ConkyX - Conky quick-launcher conky-manager - The app that ManageConky mimics SMJobKit - Framework for running privileged code LetsMove - Move to Applications Library Fragaria - Syntax Highlighting and more for our Config Editor.
  2. The Conky website lists Linux and BSD support which I assume to mean OpenBSD/FreeBSD. Mac is not mentioned. I just browsed the source code and I don't see any sign of support for collecting.

This article will describe installing conky which is a system monitor tool running as desktop widget.

Table of Contents

  • 2. ${HOME}/.conkyrc

1 Install conky

2 ${HOME}/.conkyrc

${HOME}/.conkyrc is config file for conky.config and conky.text. You can also use /etc/conky/conky.conf.

For
  • CPU core number is started from 1 (cpu0 means average of cores). Add entry of ${cpu cpuN} for your cpu cores.
  • The following command treats eth0 as network interface name. Change your network interface name of ifconfig.

2.1 Always foreground .conkyrc

2.2 Always background .conkyrc

3 Autostart

Make conky to be start automatically on login. You can use gnome-display-properties instead of the following command.

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Reboot machine.

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4 Execution result

Conky For Macbook

The conky widget is displayed on desktop.