Conky System Monitor in Polygonized Bar Style. I like to share it. Change it and let it evolve.
- ℹ️ Conky in Wikipedia
- ℹ️ Documentation of Conky
- 🆒 See how people are expressing their Digital Art with Conky
- Conky
- Lua
- Cairo Library
- Pull or Download the repository, Extract it
- After extraction, copy ".startconky.sh" file present inside the extracted directory to the home directory (startconky.sh --> home)
- Copy the .conky directory to the home directory (.conky --> home)
- Add startconky.sh to the startup programs (use gnome-session-properties in gnome-shell based sytems)
- To adjust the startup delay, one can edit the startconky.sh script
- To add your face or logo into the conky logo/face area : 6.a. Remove the logo_or_face.png 6.b. copy the image of interest into .conky/polygonbar/images and rename it as logo_or_face.png
- Restart your system or simply logout and log in
- Download Conky from Sourceforge Conky @ Source Forge, if you are interested in install it by compiling it from source
- My Laptop gnome-shell with my own PolygonBar Conky
- Anybody can customize their system monitor suiting their personal style
- Helps learn what are all the data than can be visualized in one's own personal computer
- Builds - Rich, Intitutive, Visualization, Information Graphics, User Interface --> Designing knowledge (but not interactive)
- Involves lot of fun when it is DIY
- Lua can be understood and learned in an interesting and funny way
- Cairo drawing methodology can be learned easily - along with Vector Math and Geometry
- Pragmatically anything can be modified in conky
- In this context bar background can be changed to some other patterns like voronoi or delaunay triangulations
- Ribbons can be added for bigger screens and conky with different width
- Ribbon colours can be changed
- Lua-Cairo Widgets can be created while additional parameters