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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY testtable SYSTEM "test.xml">
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<!ENTITY command_options SYSTEM "command_options.xml">
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<!ENTITY config_settings SYSTEM "config_settings.xml">
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<!ENTITY variables SYSTEM "variables.xml">
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]>
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<refentry>
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<refentryinfo>
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<address>
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<email>brenden1@users.sourceforge.net</email>
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</address>
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<author>
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<firstname>Brenden</firstname>
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<surname>Matthews</surname>
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</author>
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<date>2009-06-06</date>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>conky</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>conky</refname>
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<refpurpose>A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code, but more kickass. It just keeps on given'er. Yeah.</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
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<cmdsynopsis>
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<command>conky</command>
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<arg><replaceable>options</replaceable></arg>
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</cmdsynopsis>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para>
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Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo.
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Since its inception, Conky has changed significantly from its predecessor, while maintaining
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simplicity and configurability. Conky can display just about anything, either
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on your root desktop or in its own window. Not only does Conky have many
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built-in objects, it can also display just about any piece of information by
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using scripts and other external programs.
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</para>
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<para>
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Conky has more than 250 built in objects, including support for
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a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk
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usage, "top" like process stats, and network monitoring, just to name a few),
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built in IMAP and POP3 support, built in support for many popular
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music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious), and much much more.
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Conky can display this info either as text, or using simple progress
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bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and colours.
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</para>
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<para>
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We are always looking for help, whether its reporting bugs, writing patches, or writing docs.
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Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches,
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or stop by #conky on irc.freenode.net if you have questions or want to contribute.
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</para>
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<para>
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Thanks for your interest in Conky.
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Compiling</title>
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<para>
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For users compiling from source on a binary distro, make sure you have the X development
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libraries installed (Unless you provide configure with "--disable-x11"). This should be a
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package along the lines of "libx11-dev" or "xorg-x11-dev" for X11 libs, and similar "-dev"
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format for the other libs required (depending on your configure options). You should be able
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to see which extra packages you need to install by reading errors that you get from
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'./configure'.
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</para>
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<para>
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Conky has (for some time) been available in the repositories of most popular distributions.
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Here are some installation instructions for a few:
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</para>
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<para>
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Gentoo users -- Conky is in Gentoo's Portage... simply use "emerge app-admin/conky" for installation.
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</para>
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<para>
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Debian, etc. users -- Conky should be in your repositories, and can be installed by doing
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"aptitude install conky".
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</para>
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<para>
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Example to compile and run Conky with all optional components (note that some configure options may differ for your system):
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command><option>sh autogen.sh</option></command> <option># Only required if building from the git repo</option>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command><option>./configure </option></command><option>--prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-own-window --enable-audacious[=yes|no|legacy] --enable-bmpx --disable-hddtemp --disable-mpd --enable-xmms2 --disable-portmon --disable-network --enable-debug --disable-x11 --disable-double-buffer --disable-xdamage --disable-xft</option>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command><option>make</option></command>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command><option>make install</option></command> <option># Optional</option>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<command><option>src/conky</option></command>
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</term>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>
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Conky has been tested to be compatible with C99 C, however it has not been tested
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with anything other than gcc, and is not guaranteed to work with other compilers.
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</para>
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<para>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>You Should Know</title>
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<para>
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Conky is generally very good on resources. That said, the more you try to make Conky
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do, the more resources it is going to consume.
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</para>
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<para>
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An easy way to force Conky to reload your ~/.conkyrc: "killall -SIGUSR1 conky".
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Saves you the trouble of having to kill and then restart. You can now also do the same with SIGHUP.
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Options</title>
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<para>Command line options override configurations defined in configuration file.</para>
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&command_options;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Configuration Settings</title>
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<para>
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Default configuration file location is $HOME/.conkyrc or
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${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf. On most systems, sysconfdir is /etc,
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and you can find the sample config file there (/etc/conky/conky.conf).
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</para>
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<para>
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You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying it.
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Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net/
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</para>
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&config_settings;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Variables</title>
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<para>
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Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
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/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt. Also, <ulink url="http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html">
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http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html</ulink>.
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Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex).
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</para>
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&variables;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Examples</title>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>conky </varname><option>-t '${time %D %H:%M}' -o -u 30</option></term>
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<listitem>Start Conky in its own window with date and clock as text and 30 sec update interval.</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>conky </varname><option>-a top_left -x 5 -y 500 -d</option></term>
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<listitem>Start Conky to background at coordinates (5, 500).</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>conky </varname><option>-C > ~/.conkyrc</option></term>
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<listitem>Do not start Conky, but have it output the builtin default config file to ~/.conkyrc for later customising.</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Files</title>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><filename>${sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf</filename></term>
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<listitem>Default system-wide configuration file. The value of ${sysconfdir} depends on the compile-time options (most likely /etc).</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><filename>~/.conkyrc</filename></term>
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<listitem>Default personal configuration file.</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Bugs</title>
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<para>
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Drawing to root or some other desktop window directly doesn't work with
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all window managers. Especially doesn't work well with Gnome and it has
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been reported that it doesn't work with KDE either. Nautilus can be
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disabled from drawing to desktop with program gconf-editor. Uncheck
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show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/. There is -w switch in Conky
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to set some specific window id. You might find xwininfo -tree useful to
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find the window to draw to. You can also use -o argument which makes
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Conky to create its own window. If you do try running Conky in its own
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window, be sure to read up on the own_window_type settings and experiment.
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para><ulink url="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">
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http://conky.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky">
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http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky</ulink></para>
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<para><ulink url="http://wiki.conky.be">
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http://wiki.conky.be</ulink></para>
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<para>
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#conky on irc.freenode.net
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Copying</title>
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<para>
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Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al.
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Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license (see LICENSE.BSD for a copy).
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All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL (see LICENSE.GPL for a copy), except where noted differently (such as in portmon code, timed thread code, and audacious code which are LGPL, and prss which is an MIT-style license).
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Authors</title>
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<para>
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The Conky dev team (see AUTHORS for a full list of contributors).
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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