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Welcome to Conky - a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

About

• What is Conky? - High-level overview
• Development - Contributing to Conky
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Conky in the Press - Articles, Blog posts and other fanfare concerning Conky

Support

• Open an issue or pull request.
• #conky on irc.freenode.net.

Usage

• Install - Getting Conky on your system
• Configurations - Conky's settings / variables
• Lua - Conky's Lua APIs / Tips and tricks

Others

• Window Configuration - Conky window configuration settings for different WM/DE like KDE/Unity/Cinnamon/GNU Screen/...
• Configs - Default configs / User-submitted configs

Tutorial

• HOW TO: using lua scripts in conky
  • Part 1: How does a lua script work
  • Part 2: Displaying stuff in conky
  • Part 3: Drawing lines
  • Part 4: Drawing rectangles, cirlces and arcs
  • Part 5: Making a bar meter and a circle meter
  • Part 6: Borders and if statements
  • Part 7: Alarm colors and complex if statements
  • Part 8: Functions
  • Part 9: Function parameters
  • Part 10: Table parameters
  • Part 11: For-loops and CPU chart
  • Part 12: Clock and circular things
  • Part 13: Useful functions and code
  • Part 14: CLI commands, timers and line editing