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r1nk
April 2nd, 2012, 03:05 PM
hey Im using ubuntu 11.10.. i just installed conky and downloaded the conky meet faenza theme.. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=133086

I just followed wat the author said which is copy all the folders in home folder. That all.. Then, i started conky and it only looks like this :-

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What did i do wrong? :/

brainwash
April 2nd, 2012, 03:35 PM
There is a custom script included called .conky-start.sh which you have to run:


sh ~/.conky-start.sh

r1nk
April 2nd, 2012, 06:29 PM
still same.. the conky wont change.. :/

is it bcoz i used gnome 3 prob?

Frogs Hair
April 2nd, 2012, 06:36 PM
The start script and some other components of the theme were hidden when I extracted the theme . I had use Ctrl + H after opening nautilus to view all of the contents of the folder. I have not been able to get the theme to work on 11.10 so far .

brainwash
April 2nd, 2012, 06:46 PM
Well, make sure all files are actually in your home folder:

ls -la ~/ | grep .conky

Do you get any errors running the script?

r1nk
April 2nd, 2012, 07:02 PM
ok i think they r all there right..


cj7@cj7-Aspire-4741:~$ ls -la ~/ | grep .conky
drwx------ 4 cj7 cj7 4096 2011-09-08 05:19 .conky
-rw------- 1 cj7 cj7 1233 2011-09-08 23:11 .conkyrc-music
-rw------- 1 cj7 cj7 1529 2011-09-08 23:12 .conkyrc-system
-rw-r--r-- 1 cj7 cj7 1529 2011-09-08 23:12 .conkyrc-system~
-rw------- 1 cj7 cj7 91 2011-09-08 05:38 .conky-start.sh
cj7@cj7-Aspire-4741:~$



sorry bcoz this is my 1st time using conky. just wanna make it clear. After extract to the home folder, open terminal and just type "conky" to work it out right?

and when i type the start command in terminal, here wat it wrote..


cj7@cj7-Aspire-4741:~$ sh ~/.conky-start.sh
Conky: desktop window (1200024) is subwindow of root window (ae)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x4000001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: desktop window (1200024) is subwindow of root window (ae)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x3e00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

stinkeye
April 3rd, 2012, 01:40 AM
The .conkystart script has delay of 10 secs so you won't see straight away.

The download contains 2 conky configs which the .conkystart script
invokes.A system conky and a music conky.
You can test the system conky with (in terminal)

conky -c ~/.conkyrc-system

The music conky requires the installation of
conkyexaile, conkybanshee or conkyrhythmbox
depending which music app you use.

To add one of these you need to add the ppa.
The one in the readme is old, see HERE (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=928168) for the developers ppa.

The ~/.conkyrc-music config is setup for exaile.
Look in the readme for the code for rhythmbox or banshee and edit ~/.conkyrc-music to reflect your choice.

You can test the music conky with (will only show when your music app is playing)

conky -c ~/.conkyrc-music


NB***Running "conky" in terminal loads the config @ ~/.conkyrc
If there is no ~/.conkyrc config it loads the default config @ /etc/conky/conky.conf (which is what you see in your pic)
The -c option tells conky to load a specific config
eg
conky -c ~/.conkyrc-system