
disable-own-window -enable-audacious -enable-bmpx -disable-hddtemp -disable-mpd -enable-xmms2 -disable-portmon -disable-network configure -prefix=/usr -mandir=/usr/share/man -infodir=/usr/share/info -datadir=/usr/share -sysconfdir=/etc -localstatedir=/var/lib

Sh autogen.sh # Only required if building from the git repo. users - Conky should be in your repositories, and can be installed by doing "aptitude install conky".Įxample to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note that some configure options may differ for your system): simply use "emerge app-admin/conky" for installation.ĭebian, etc. Gentoo users - Conky is in Gentoo's Portage. Here are some installation instructions for a few: For example: with -disable-math you won't getĮrrors but logarithmic graphs will be normal graphs and gauges will miss their line.Ĭonky has (for some time) been available in the repositories of most popular distributions. You can enable/disable stuff by giving options to configure, but be careful with disabling. You should be able to see which extra packages you need to install by reading errors that you get from

Required (depending on your configure options). This should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev" or "xorg-x11-dev" for X11 libs, and similar "-dev" format for the other libs Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports,įeature requests, and submit patches, or stop by #conky on if you have questions or want to contribute.įor users compiling from source on a binary distro, make sure you have the X development libraries installed (Unless you provide configure with We are always looking for help, whether its reporting bugs, writing patches, or writing docs.

Conky can display this info either as text, or using simple progress bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and colours. Stats, and network monitoring, just to name a few), built in IMAP and POP3 support, built in support for many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx,Īudacious), and much much more. Objects, it can also display just about any piece of information by using scripts and other external programs.Ĭonky has more than 250 built in objects, including support for a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk usage, "top" like process Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Since its inception, Conky has changed significantly from its predecessor, while maintaining Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo.
