We use the command ‘pt’ or catfish to search for the word ‘nvidia’ in our conkies folder. Then we copy/paste the conky and change anything we like. ‘skel’ is an alias some of us use. It will override the conkies from ArcoLinux but...
This video will show you how to change the old code of your personal conkys to the new lua syntax. There is a script you can use. Here is the official website of the conky. We have taken the convert.lua on 02/09/2020 from here. If the converting script does not work...
Any conky with the word LUA in the name is going to rely on the language lua and the package we install standard conky-lua-archers. So this conky is not the regular conky – it is written in the language LUA. We see where the conky is and how it is started but...
Conky-toggle is a script that basically quickly shows your conky or hides your conky. It works together with a .desktop file in your ~/.config/autostart.When you update the conkies will come into /etc/skel. You need to see how you get the new conkies in. We do this...
Use our new script am-rotate-conky to quickly change the conky to the one you fancy today. We have set the keyboard shortcut to CTRL + ALT + Pagedown for the previous conky CTRL + ALT + Pageup for the next conky At the time of writing (Mid July 2019) only the...
When a red wallpaper comes in, we start theming ArcoLinux all red.Conky logo is chosen.A new combination of icons is created. Use the inherit in your icon theme.A new theme is chosen.We explain the derivatives from Sardi. Just one icon did not change all red. Then we...
Conky toggle does exactly what the name suggests.With this application (see menu ) you can either show or hide the conky or conkies of your choice.For our convenience we have made a keyboard shortcut for it.Super + cThe shortcut will work on Xfce and Openbox.Since it...
Thanks to the fact that we have the package conky-lua-archers installed we can use conky and its LUA files (not needed here).You can add your own conkies to the system.There are hundreds of them out there. Many are very similar since they all fall back on the possible...
Thanks to the fact that we have the package conky-lua-archers installed we can use conky and its LUA files.You can add your own conkies to the system.There are hundreds of them out there. Many are very similar since they all fall back on the possible parameters you...
Any application can be autostarted upon boot or you can decide NOT to autostart the applications, that are present there. Find “Session and Startup” in the menu. First we activate a conky to see that it is working. Then we show where you should add the...
After the article how to create AUR-Azuli and set its vnstat service we can now change the conky to our own preferences. We copy/paste the conky so that it will never be overwritten when you do skel and give it a unique name. We change : use gpick to get some color...
We download the Aureola conkies from github. We choose to incorporate the Lazuli conky into ArcoLinux. What steps did I undertake to incorporate this particular conky into ArcoLinux? Contents of the video We download the Aureola conky and extract it.We analyze the...
We show you what procedure I have in my head to change a conky and make it my own without it being overwritten IF I use the skel command on a later date. Rename the conky before you apply changes. We tell you why the conky will not display any weather information at...
Jesse Avalos or Speedracker has been a contributor of many nice conkies in the past. In this video we will download one of his conkies from deviantart and learn how to incorporate a conky in ArcoLinux. We rename the conkies to the conventions we use and with extension...
We all go online and look all for the nicest conkies around. But then we need to incorporate them some how in our system. We have found a nice conky to add to our ArcoLinux conky collection at https://www.deviantart.com/etlesteam. Requests or questions can be asked on...
Many desktop environments give you a tool to set applications to autostart like xfce, cinnamon, mate, etc… but some of them do not like window tiling managers (often in the configs) or like Deepin. We may just not have found the application on Deepin but I am...
8 cores 4 cores 2 cores TIP If you do not have an 8 core computer and you want a working conky. First make a copy of the conky and rename it. An example Change the copy of Arco-Elegant.conkyrc to Arco-Elegant-4core.conkyrc. If you do a copy/paste of /etc/skel in the...
If text and information is falling off from your screen, you have only two options. make the font smaller delete elements you do not want anyway There is also a tutorial about the size of the conky and the position of the conky. General conky info A conky will NEVER...
Changing the size and position of a conky is possible. First you need to know what conky you want to change. Then choose an appropriate editor. We are on the look out for this code. –Placement alignment = ‘middle_right’, –Arch Duoscreen...
We have two kind of conky’s. The regular conky and the conky created with LUA. Lua is a programming language. You can learn more about the language here. Conky’s, that are using lua, will have those three letters in their naming. When on ArcoLinuxD you...
Since 6.2.1 Archmerge conky’s come in via a package. When you update your system with sudo pacman -Syu or pksyua or reinstall it with sudo pacman -S arcolinux-conky-collection-git you will get the updates in. They will be saved to this folder....
Changing the color of a conky could not be easier with a tool like gpick.Here we start with the end-result to the fact that my webcam had been connected to a wrong usb and had no sound. Tip : change the webcam from usb to get the microphone to work We show you the...
In this tutorial we are going to change the ArchMerge logo from color. You can find the logo in the following places online on this page on your pc on your home folder at ~/.config/conky/images You will need inkscape and gpick to do it. Follow the tutorial and recolor...
