This article will describe installing conky which is a system monitor tool running as desktop widget.

1. Installing Conky On Mint
2. Install Conky On Raspberry Pi

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In antiX MX, you can install install conky from the repos, or start with Conky Manager 2 (conky-manager2) that provides options to start/stop, browse and edit Conky themes installed on the system, and provides many themes ready to go. There is a great installation guide over at Nova Spirit Tech. I have copied it for your convenience below. How to Install Conky: I am sorry to say that there is no GUI install for Conky so we are going to have it install it from the command line. Open a terminal window and copy and paste the BLUE CODE below: sudo apt-get install conky -y. To install from PPA, type the following commands one by one in a terminal window: sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install conky-manager Updates will be installed automatically if you have enabled automatic updates enabled on your system.

• 2. ${HOME}/.conkyrc

1 Install conky

2 ${HOME}/.conkyrc

Install Conky Manager Conky is a free, open source and lightweight system monitor tool for Linux and BSD system. Conky displays the system information and statistics such as CPU load, Memory usage, Hard drive usage, Network activity, GPU temperature, fan. The standard view conky provides is less interesting (in my opinion), so, to make editing easier, you can download Conky Manager developed by Tony George on this website! When trying to install Conky Manager on ubuntu 18.04, I get a lot of problems, Here is a problem I get when installing conky manager.

${HOME}/.conkyrc is config file for conky.config and conky.text. You can also use /etc/conky/conky.conf.

• CPU core number is started from 1 (cpu0 means average of cores). Add entry of ${cpu cpuN} for your cpu cores.
• The following command treats eth0 as network interface name. Change your network interface name of ifconfig.

3 Autostart

Installing Conky On Mint

Make conky to be start automatically on login. You can use gnome-display-properties instead of the following command.

Reboot machine.

4 Execution result

Install Conky On Raspberry Pi

The conky widget is displayed on desktop.