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Monochrome Conky

A collection of graphical conky interfaces to monitor your system.
Keep tabs on your system's cpu, memory, disk, network, battery usage and device temperatures.

Compact dock

compact dock

Glass dock

glass dock

Widgets dock

widgets dock

Widgets

widgets

Additional monitoring features

  • A paginated list of new package updates for the Fedora dnf package manager
  • Torrent uploads and downloads for the transmission bittorrent client
  • Music player support for Rhythmbox and Spotify
  • Read/write io usage for swap disk space

These details are retrieved with the use of small scripts.

How to install

Dependencies

You only require to have conky installed on your system.
On Fedora install it by running:

$ sudo dnf install conky figlet

n.b. I recommend using the conky package version 1.11.5_pre
more recent versions may have regressions/bugs (issue 1, issue 2) that cause the theme to behave erratically.

Run the command dnf downgrade conky until you arrive at this version or download the RPM from the web.

Fonts

Download these fonts:

Download the code for these conky scripts

Create the ~/conky directory and clone this repository

$ mkdir ~/conky
$ cd ~/conky
$ git clone https://github.com/ernesto1/monochrome.git

Alternatively if you only want the conky configurations and their images, you can download the latest monochrome.zip file from the releases page. This way you don't get any of the build assets.

Configuration

If you are new to conky the wiki outlines items that may require configuration in order to customize this conky to your system, ex. device names such as network cards and hard drives

Building the Music Player App

The music player conky requires the supporting java app in order to function.
You require maven and the java jdk in order to build it from source.

# ::: fedora users
# the java jdk comes installed by default
# to install maven run
dnf install maven

# ::: building the music app from source
cd ~/conky/monochrome/builder/java-tools
mvn clean package
mkdir -p ~/conky/monochrome/java
rm -rf ~/conky/monochrome/java/*
cp -r */target/{lib,*.jar,*.yaml,*.xml} ~/conky/monochrome/java

If you don't want to build this manually, you can download the latest monochrome.zip file from the releases page.

How to run

Go into the conky monochrome folder

cd ~/conky/monochrome

Run the launch script with the theme you want:

Theme Command
Compact ./launch.bash --conky compact
Glass ./launch.bash --conky glass
Widgets dock ./launch.bash --conky widgets-dock
Widgets ./launch.bash --conky widgets

I recommend you take advantage of the launch script's --silent flag. It suppresses conky logging which clutters the terminal (ex. ./launch.bash --conky compact --silent).

Shutting down

To close all conkys and supporting jobs started by the launch script you can run the shutdown command

./launch.bash --shutdown