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Conky 1.4.1 is monitoring software developed by Brenden Matthews.
Conky is a light-weight system monitor.



Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's predecessor.

Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in it's own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display the output from stdout.

We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a developer is welcome. Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches.

Installation:

For users compiling from source, make sure you have the X development libraries installed. This should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev".

Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoo's Portage... simply use "emerge app- admin/conky" for installation. There is also usually an up-to-date ebuild within Conky's package or in CVS.

Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debian's repositories soon (by mid-September, hopefully), and then Ubuntu shortly thereafter. Until then, "dpkg -i" the .deb package to install.

Example to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note that some configure options may differ for your system):

sh autogen.sh Only required if building from CVS

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-xft --enable-seti --enable-dou-
ble-buffer --enable-own-window --enable-proc-uptime --enable-mpd
--enable-mldonkey --enable-x11 --enable-portmon

make

make install Optional

src/conky

Conky probably doesn't compile with compilers other than gcc and icc. It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99. It uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strn-casecmp(), optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89). Crashes in file system statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't know exactly why.

You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need it by passing --disable-own-window to configure -script.

What's New in This Release:
FreeBSD cpu info patch
Fixed issue where some WM's don't control conky own_window windows.
Added newly-updated vim file detection and syntax hilighting files to svn.
Fixed issue with graphs resetting colours (sf.net bug 1420473)
Fixed battery problems when charged
MPD code handles broken pipe now, instead of just killing conky
Switch from CVS to SVN. Thanks SourceForge.
Added patch to make $cpu stuff work on alpha (thanks Thomas Cort) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122637c3
Stop using override_redirect true -- conky back under WM control when using 'own_window yes'.
Fixed texeci breakage when forking to background is on
Drastically simplified own_window=yes window creation code.
on_bottom and wm_class_name deprecated (they do nothing)
Fixed typo bug in portmon code that caused incorrect monitor data to be displayed.
Conky 1.4.1 supports english interface languages and works with Linux.

Downloading Conky 1.4.1 will take if you use fast ADSL connection.

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