Conky is a free software monitor , available for Linux , OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
In order to configure and add extra themes we will be using Conky Manager which can be installed
via ppa . To begin open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and type in the following commands :
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install conky-manager
After the installation is complete you can launch Conky Manager from Unity Dash:
Conky Manager only comes with a few themes installed . We can download more theme packs from here :
- Default-themes-extra
- Deluxe-conky-theme-pack
- Supreme-conky-pack
- Community-conky-pack
- Deluxe-pack-3 ( you will need to rename the file from Deluxe Pack_3.7z to
After the downloads are complete you can import the theme packs to conky-manager :
To launch conky at startup make sure to enable this setting :
Need some inspiration for a conky configuration ? Look no further , the right place to start is here .
Next Generation Conky
Conky Cubes
Conky Seamod
