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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    I was puzzled about finding a list of colours until I looked at this guide

    How To: Configuring Conky

    which explained that you can use the HTML colour set. A list of Colour Names with hex equivalents can be found here:

    HTML Color Names


    Hope this helps other n00bs like me!


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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    Quote Originally Posted by Sealbhach View Post
    I was puzzled about finding a list of colours until I looked at this guide

    How To: Configuring Conky

    which explained that you can use the HTML colour set. A list of Colour Names with hex equivalents can be found here:

    HTML Color Names


    Hope this helps other n00bs like me!


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    Nice stuff and would fit better in the threads mentioned in my first post. As the idea here is not how to configure conky but how to set it up for the first time.

    HOWEVER, having said that. It is a nice addition here as this is obviously a place new conky users will look, and this comes after the setup.

    So, Thank you for the post.
    Bruce

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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    I want to thank you too, this thread kickstarted my conky configuration! After an hour of messing around with it, I now have the perfect conkymain to suit my needs. Much appreciated.. =D>
    Registered Linux User #363371

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    Wink Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    Excellent How To!!!

    It's one of the best.

    Thank you

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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    Hi everyone I'm new in Ubuntu and Linux too . I got some problem with conky, when I try to start it it gives me

    Code:
    Conky: can't open display:
    I try to reinstall but it didn't workout.

    Thanks in Advance !

    Negatifo

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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    Quote Originally Posted by negatifo View Post
    Hi everyone I'm new in Ubuntu and Linux too . I got some problem with conky, when I try to start it it gives me

    Code:
    Conky: can't open display:
    I try to reinstall but it didn't workout.

    Thanks in Advance !
    Hi Negatifo

    Welcome to Ubuntu, you are going to love it.

    No to be disrespectful or a bad guy but can you repost your question in one of the following threads. There are a lot of people there that will be helping you and quite a few know more about conky than I do.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce M. View Post
    First and foremost this thread isn't meant to be a place to display your screeshots of conky or to discuss the inner workings of the conky configuration itself. There are a couple of really good threads that will give you help in those areas:
    1. Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots
    2. Howto: Get a beautiful Conky 1.4.2 setup
    Have a nice day.
    Bruce

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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    I just wanted to thank Bruce for this simple, yet great HowTo. Got me running in no time.

    Joe

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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    Cheers mate! Exactly what I was looking for today
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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    Quote Originally Posted by NewJack View Post
    I just wanted to thank Bruce for this simple, yet great HowTo. Got me running in no time.

    Joe
    Hi Joe, Glad to hear that.

    Quote Originally Posted by thraxy View Post
    Cheers mate! Exactly what I was looking for today
    Hi thraxy, Glad to have helped.

    Show us a screenshot at: Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

    Have a nice day.
    Bruce

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    Re: HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

    edit: got the conky running but when i get to this part of the instructions:

    Terminal:Code:

    chmod a+x ~/.startconky

    File Manager:
    Right click on ~/.startconky > Properties > Permissions > check the box necessary to make it executable.


    I dont know where to find ~/.startconky after running the terminal code

    also i'm not getting any temperatures from my cpu, motherboard or hdd
    Last edited by Messyhair42; January 31st, 2009 at 08:28 AM.

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