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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/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>2006-05-13</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 the torsmo code.
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Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's predecessor.
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Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in it's own window.
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Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts,
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then display the output from stdout.
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</para>
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<para>
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We are always looking for help, and anyone interested in becoming a developer is welcome.
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Please use the facilities at SourceForge to make bug reports, feature requests, and submit patches.
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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, make sure you have the X development libraries installed.
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This should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev or xorg-x11-dev".
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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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There is also usually an up-to-date ebuild within Conky's package or in Svn.
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</para>
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<para>
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Debian,etc. users -- Conky will be in Debian's repositories soon (by mid-September, hopefully), and then
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Ubuntu shortly thereafter. Until then, "dpkg -i" the .deb package to install.
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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 Svn</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 --enable-xft --enable-seti --enable-double-buffer --enable-own-window --enable-proc-uptime --enable-mpd --enable-mldonkey --enable-x11 --enable-portmon --enable-xmms --enable-bmp --enable-audacious --enable-infopipe --enable-bmpx </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 probably doesn't compile with compilers other than gcc and icc.
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It doesn't compile with C89 compiler and not even with pure C99.
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It uses a few things that might not exist: strdup(), strcasecmp(), strncasecmp(),
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optarg variable with getopt() and long long (not in C89). Crashes in file system
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statistics stuff when compiled with icc, I don't know exactly why.
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</para>
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<para>
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You can disable 'drawing to own window' feature in case you don't need it by passing
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--disable-own-window to configure -script.
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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. However, certain objects in
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Conky are harder on resources then others. In particular, the $tail,
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$top, $font, and $graph objects are quite costly in comparison to the rest of Conky.
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</para>
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<para>
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If you do use them, please do not complain about memory or CPU usage,
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unless you think something's seriously wrong (mem leak, etc.).
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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.
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</para>
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<para>
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IMPORTANT: For previous Conky users, Conky 1.3 no longer supports the metar stuff.
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mdsplib was causing way too many problems. Hopefully there'll be a better solution in Conky 2.x...
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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 is $HOME/.conkyrc (can be changed from
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conky.c among other things). See conkyrc.sample. If installing from Debian package,
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this should be in /usr/share/doc/conky/examples ("gunzip conkyrc.sample.gz" to get conkyrc.sample).
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</para>
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<para>
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You might want to copy it to $HOME/.conkyrc and then start modifying it.
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Other configs can be found at http://conky.sf.net
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</para>
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&config_settings;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Variables</title>
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<para>
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Colors are parsed using XParsecolor(), there might be a list of them:
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/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Also, <ulink url="http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html">
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http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html</ulink>.
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Color can be also in #rrggbb format (hex).
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Note that when displaying bytes, power is 1024 and not 1000 so 1M really
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means 1024*1024 bytes and not 1000*1000.
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</para>
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&variables;
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Examples</title>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>conky </varname><option>-t '${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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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Files</title>
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<filename>~/.conkyrc</filename> default configuration file
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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.
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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>
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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>Authors</title>
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<para>
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The Conky dev team. What's up now!
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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