Showing posts with label system monitor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label system monitor. Show all posts
Friday, October 16, 2015
Conky Manager Gets Revamped UI, New Options (Conky GUI)
Conky Manager, a graphical font-end for managing Conky configuration files, has been updated to version 2 recently, getting a revamped UI and new options.
In case you're not familiar with Conky, this is a lightweight, highly customizable system monitor that displays various info on your desktop.
Changes in Conky Manager v2:
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The tool allows you to easily enable/disable various Conky modules/widgets and it also supports full themes, which is a combination of widgets. You can configure each widget alignment, size, transparency and so on, all from a GUI so if you didn't know how to configure Conky before, give Conky Manager a try.
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| Conky Manager v2 - widget settings |
In case you're not familiar with Conky, this is a lightweight, highly customizable system monitor that displays various info on your desktop.
Changes in Conky Manager v2:
- revamped UI;
- the main window now displays previews; if a widget/theme doesn't have a preview, click the "Generate preview images" button;
- new toolbar which lets you start/stop Conky, edit widget, edit Conky Manager settings (which includes option to run Conky on startup with an optional delay to avoid various issues or add Conky locations), search for new themes, import theme packs, etc.;
- easily switch between / filter themes and widgets;
Note: a Widget is a Conky configuration file (conkyrc file); a Conky Manager Theme is a combination of widgets along with a wallpaper (cmtheme file).
Check out the Conky Manager v2 release announcement for more information.
Conky Manager makes using/managing Conky a lot easier and while I like it for the most part, I've encountered two annoyances (nothing major though). One is that the application creates a "conky-manager" folder in the home directory - this will be fixed in a future release though.
And the second issue is related to widgets that display the weather: Conky Manager itself doesn't include an option to set your weather location so to get the weather for your location, you must edit the Conky configuration file (select the weather widget that's currently in use, then in Conky Manager click the Edit file manually... button, then modify it so it uses your weather location).
Below you can check out some of the themes available in the Conky Manager v2 theme pack (download link below; screenshots via Conky Manager theme pack):
Install Conky Manager in Ubuntu 14.04 or 13.10 / Linux Mint 17 or 16
To install Conky Manager in Ubuntu 14.04 or 13.10 / Linux Mint 17 or 16 and derivatives, use the following commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install conky-managerConky Manager ships with just a few demo themes but you can get the Conky Manager v2 themes collection from HERE. To install the themes, simply copy the downloaded archive to your home folder, then extract it. The archive contains a hidden ".conky" folder (so you won't see it after extracting the archive unless you press CTRL + H) which includes a large collection of Conky Manager themes.
Arch Linux users can install Conky Manager via AUR (but it wasn't updated to the latest version at the time I'm writing this article).
For other Linux distributions you can get the code via BZR.
If you encounter bugs, report them HERE.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
SysPeek Indicator Ported To GTK3, Install It In Ubuntu Via PPA
SysPeek is a system monitor AppIndicator that displays CPU, memory, swap and disk usage as well as network traffic.
SysPeek uses an animated AppIndicator icon which indicates the CPU load. Also, its icon turns red when the CPU reaches 100%. The actual CPU, memory, swap, network and disk usage are displayed in the indicator menu and are configurable so you can choose which info to display in the menu. There's also an option to launch System Monitor directly from the appindicator menu.
SysPeek hasn't been updated in a long time and it stopped working in recent Ubuntu versions. A while back I uploaded the latest SysPeek from BZR to the main failsdownloads PPA. I added some extra fixes (some with the help of failsdownloads reader DA) to the package but I'm not a programmer and the fixes were pretty much hacks. Because I wasn't too proud of my fixes (and there was an alternative - System Load Indicator), I decided not to write about it then.
Recently, Marco Trevisan (I'm sure you know him by know - he's behind important Unity changes like native window decorations, proper filter support for the Unity Spread and many others) ported SysPeek to GTK3 and fixed the bugs I was telling you about so I could finally write about it.
Compared to the old SysPeek version available in its official PPA (available for Oneiric and Natty only), the version available in the failsdownloads PPA has an extra feature: the app comes with a preferences dialog which lets you configure what to display in the Indicator menu, etc.
Install SysPeek in Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, 13.10 or 12.04
To install the latest SysPeek Indicator (fixed by Marco Trevisan) in Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, 13.10 or 12.04 by using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install syspeekOr, if you don't want to add the main failsdownloads PPA, grab the latest SysPeek deb from HERE.
Check out our AppIndicator tag for more Ubuntu indicators.
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