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Welcome to Conky - a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

About

• News - News
• What is Conky? - High-level overview
• Contacts - Contacting the team
• Development - Contributing to Conky
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Conky in the Press - Articles, Blog posts and other fanfare concerning Conky

Usage

• Install - Getting Conky on your system
• Command Line - Conky's command-line interface
• Configuration - Conky's configuration settings for your configuration file.
• Variables - Conky's variables which can be used in your configuration file.
• Lua - Conky's Lua API.

Specific usage

• Window Configuration - Conky window configuration settings for different WM/DE like KDE/Unity/Cinnamon/GNU Screen/...

Documentation for previous versions

• Configuration settings and variables - Conky's documentation for version 1.9.1 and previous versions.
• Converting to new 1.10 syntax - Convert your old Conky 1.9.1 (or previous versions) configuration files to the new 1.10 (and newer) version syntax.

Tutorial

• HOW TO: using lua scripts in conky

  • Part 1: How does a lua script work
  • Part 2: Displaying stuff in conky
  • Part 3: Drawing lines
  • Part 4: Drawing rectangles, cirlces and arcs
  • Part 5: Making a bar meter and a circle meter
  • Part 6: Borders and if statements
  • Part 7: Alarm colors and complex if statements
  • Part 8: Functions
  • Part 9: Function parameters
  • Part 10: Table parameters
  • Part 11: For-loops and CPU chart
  • Part 12: Clock and circular things
  • Part 13: Useful functions and code
  • Part 14: CLI commands, timers and line editing

• Lua tips and tricks

  • Lua tips and tricks

Configs

• Default Config - Default config that ships with Conky
• User Configs - User-submitted configs