dentex / conky_themes

A Conky themes pack in 4 variants:

• Light
• Light & Minimal
• Dark
• Dark & Minimal

Credits:

Shelyak theme by CloseBox73, available at Pling.com: Link.

In this fork:

I added two (light and dark) more informative, less minimal, conky configurations, including:

• kernel info
• uptime
• CPU freq.
• sunrise
• sunset

The media player I use is VLC, thus I modified the original scripts to get playing info from VLC's built-in web interface. You need to:

• enable the web interface:
• enter a password (the script is trivially using test):

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Previews:

Shelyak theme

Light Version Light & Minimal Version Dark Version Dark & Minimal Version Close-up

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Requirements:

• Conky version 1.10.8 or newer (open this Link for installation).
• For the weather theme I download the data using curl in json format, and use jq to process the data, please install first.
• To retrive media playing info, xmlstarlet is also used.
• The start script uses zenity to generate a simple selection GUI.

to recap:

   sudo apt install conky curl jq xmlstarlet zenity

I tested this conky configurations on a laptop running Linux Mint 20.3 Una (cinnamon edition).

How to use the themes:

• Clone this repo issuing:

  git clone [email protected]:dentex/conky_themes.git

• Open the theme folder that you want to use and install all the fonts in your user fonts folder (on Linux Mint it's under ~/.local/share/fonts), then update the font cache.
• For the weather part to work properly, you must have an API KEY and a city id. A default KEY is provided, but you can get yours Here; then modify weather.sh in the scripts folder accordingly.
• Execute start.sh

Auto start-up

This may vary with every distro, but in Linux Mint you can add something like conky -c $HOME/.config/conky/Shelyak/Shelyak_dark.conf in the system's start-up applications GUI.