conky transparent window on Fedora with Gnome.

2013-07-22 1 min read Fedora GNOME

On Fedora with Gnome-shell 3, its been long time that I was not able to get transparent window. So, finally I thought to spend some time to try to fix that. Finally got that fixed with all the configurations below in the conkyrc.  Here the default color is set to  LightSkyBlue but feel free to change that.

I hope this helps fedora community who is struggling to get transparent window. And here is the code :

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conky script used to monitor server status remotely.

2012-01-12 2 min read Bash Fedora
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I was looking for something to monitor few details on the server. I thought about quite a lot of applications, some open source and some scripts developed in house. But my requirements were quite petty and the scripts and applications were quite heavy. So, I thought why not conky :).

 

So, with some quick work on conky script, I was able to get what I wanted and here it is for all of you.

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Get yourself some conkyrc files.

2011-10-05 2 min read Fedora Linux

If you are looking for some nice conkyrc files, then you can head over to :

Ubuntu Forums

In this thread you can see some very nice conkyrc files with screenshots. You can browse through the thread and get the one that you like. But if you are like me and would like to download all of them to see the features and commands in each of them then you would need to copy each of these files and paste them separately. But if you have to do everything manually then there’s not much of being on Linux 🙂

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Gnome 3 screenshot with conky dock

2011-08-18 1 min read Fedora GNOME

Just to give you a idea of how beautiful it looks, here’s a screenshot 🙂

[gnome3-desktop][1]
gnome3-desktop
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15 (More) Awesome Conky Configurations

2010-09-13 0 min read Fedora Linux
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15 (More) Awesome <a class="zem_slink" title="Conky (software)" rel="homepage" href="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">Conky Configurations You may have already seen our list of awesome Conky scripts or configurations, and perhaps applied or used some of them on your own <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux desktop. Since that collection was quiet popular, I decided to scour the web once again to gather more Conky scripts that I could share with all of you. Now, here is another list of some of the most excellent and unique conky configurations that you could freely use. Enjoy!

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