diff --git a/data/conky_no_x11.conf b/data/conky_no_x11.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f4143fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/conky_no_x11.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
+#
+# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
+#
+# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
+#
+# Please see COPYING for details
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
+# Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+background no
+cpu_avg_samples 2
+net_avg_samples 2
+no_buffers yes
+out_to_console no
+out_to_stderr no
+update_interval 1.0
+uppercase no
+use_spacer none
+
+TEXT
+${scroll 16 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
+Uptime: $uptime
+Frequency (in MHz): $freq
+Frequency (in GHz): $freq_g
+RAM Usage: $mem/$memmax - $memperc%
+Swap Usage: $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc%
+CPU Usage: $cpu%
+Processes: $processes  Running: $running_processes
+File systems:
+ / ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /}
+Networking:
+Up: ${upspeed eth0}  - Down: ${downspeed eth0}
+Name              PID   CPU%   MEM%
+ ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
+ ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
+ ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
+ ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 61f202df..7066e9f4 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ endif
 conky_DEPENDENCIES = $(config_output)
 BUILT_SOURCES = $(config_output)
 CLEANFILES = $(config_output)
+if BUILD_X11
 $(config_output): ../data/conky.conf
+else
+$(config_output): ../data/conky_no_x11.conf
+endif
 	sh ../text2c.sh $< $@ defconfig
 endif
 
diff --git a/src/conky.c b/src/conky.c
index 1f0bdbcc..7b0921a1 100644
--- a/src/conky.c
+++ b/src/conky.c
@@ -7548,9 +7548,11 @@ static void load_config_file(const char *f)
 			}
 		}
 		CONF("text") {
+#ifdef X11
 			if(output_methods & TO_X) {
 				X11_initialisation();
 			}
+#endif
 
 			if (global_text) {
 				free(global_text);