One more simple Conky in the linux world

How to set a up a simple Conky telling you how much RAM, CPU and battery used?

Comment paramétrer un conky tout simple qui donne la quantité de RAM, CPU et de Batterie utilisés?

1/ what is Conky / c'est quoi Conky ?

clic Heeere ;)

2/ How to install / Comment l'installer ?

Ubuntu/Mint : 

sudo apt-get install conky-all

3/ What to do now / Que faire ensuite ?

create a .conkyrc file in /home/username

4/ fill it up with some stuff / remplir avec quelques lignes : 

You may need to play with commented lines (in window settings) to make the Conky correctly be displayed : 

Vous pourriez devoir jouer avec les lignes commentées (dans "window settings") pour que Conky soit correctement affiché : 

#window settings

own_window yes

#own_window_type desktop

#own_window_type normal

own_window_transparent yes

#own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below

own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,below

border_inner_margin 0

border_outer_margin 0

#position and size

alignment top_right

gap_x 10

gap_y 30

maximum_width 200

minimum_size 200 450

#font settings

use_xft yes

xftfont caviar dreams:size=8

override_utf8_locale yes

xftalpha 0.5

uppercase no

#global settings

update_interval 1

double_buffer yes

#color settings

default_color FFFFFF

color1 FF0000

color2 FF5F00

color3 0000FF

color4 0073FF

color5 0BAE07

TEXT

mem: $mem/$memmax

${color5}${membar 5 80}${color}

cores: ${cpu 0} % ${acpitemp}°C

${color1}${cpubar cpu 1 5 80}

${color2}${cpubar cpu 2 5 80}

${color3}${cpubar cpu 3 5 80}

${color4}${cpubar cpu 4 5 80}${color}

#${cpugraph cpu 0 20 80 -l}

battery: ${battery}

#other options for battery

#${battery_bar}

#${battery_short}

#${battery}

#battery: ${battery_percent}% 

5/ enjoy : 

6/ there a lot of more complete and complicated Conky, most using Lua:

Il y a énormément de Conky plus complets et plus complexes, la plupart utilisant Lua :

some examples / quelques exemples :

http://www.clapico.com/tag/conky/

http://helmuthdu.deviantart.com/art/CONKY-COLORS-244793180

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