recent guide for conky?

[silent1643]

anybody got a recent guide for installing and using conky with FF, i found an old post on this forum but its to confusing and it doesn't seem to work correctly.

[notwen]

Try this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=353362).

If you want a simple install you can simply type this in a terminal
sudo apt-get install conky

then this after conky is installed simply type this to start conky w/ the default config file.

conky

To edit what's actually showing up on your screen you'll need to create your own .conkyrc config file in your /home folder. The above link goes tells you how to do this and also provide you w/ a simple script that you can copy from the threads to your .conkyrc. You can also check out this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865) for ppl's conky configs and screenshots. The conky courceforge page also has a page w/ all the variables you can use. It takes awhile to understand whats what and to get it looking the way you want on your screen, but is generally worth it in the end. Hope this helps. =]