Conky is a system monitor software for the X Window System. It is available for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. It is free software released under the terms of the GPL license. Conky is able to monitor many system variables including CPU, memory, swap, disk space, temperature, top, upload, download, system messages, and much. To autostart conky on boot we will need to create 2 files: 1. Will be a shell script to delay the boot process of conky. Will be the conky desktop files to allow lxdesktop to start the shell script. To create the shell script. Sudo nano /usr/bin/conky.sh. Paste this into the conky.sh file #!/bin/sh (sleep 4s && conky) & exit 0.

• Conky Macbook Pro
• Conky Objects

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.

• 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.

Conky Macbook Pro

3 Autostart

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

Reboot machine.

4 Execution result

Conky Objects

The conky widget is displayed on desktop.