Showing posts with label BlankOn Linux. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Conky in BlankOn Linux 9 Suroboyo

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I use BlankOn Linux distribution, I'd like to appreciate what my community invent and develop open source project. This project is from Indonesia, we should proud being Indonesian. Anyway, user has many options to use Linux but I prefer to use this distribution because it is complete and fulfill what I need. For instance, GIMP, Inkscape, VLC, geo.Blankon Map, etc are built in. The other distributions such us Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora etc; I think those distributions are complicated for beginner and also the system is heavy. You need to struggle with the internet to update your system after installing. I used to use those distributions which belong to "western community" but I didn't feel satisfied what I used. The problem with this new release (BlankOn 9 Suroboyo) is that user can't manage the disk when installing BlankOn, you need to arrange your partition with gparted or any other partition maker. And also with package repository, because the server in Indonesia and now I'm in Malaysia, my problem is only when I update my system, it's little bit slow. We are still on going to solve this problem by sending the 'ticket' to developer .And I encourage you guys to try this distribution and you will see the difference !! Keep in Open and Freedom!

Conky

Last time, I had problem with conky in BlankOn Linux 9. I wanted to see the system works in my BlankOn and I wonder whether I could use it or not. I've tried so many times to find and to search the solution about Conky. Suddenly, I could realize that it's very easy. What we need to have is only two: conky and conky manager. Done ! :D hehe. BlankOn 9 do not provide you startup application like in Ubuntu, so conky manager could help you. Dont worry too much about this :D !


Make sure that you are using root, if not you can type 'sudo' for privilege 
#  apt-get install conky conky-all

#cd && wget -O .start-conky http://drive.noobslab.com/data/conky/Techno/start-conky
#chmod +x .start-conky (give permission to this file)

These are the themes, and you can download from other resources:

$ cd && wget -O techno-noobslab-ugs.zip http://drive.noobslab.com/data/conky/Techno/techno-NoobsLab-ugs.zip

$ unzip techno-noobslab-ugs.zip && rm techno-noobslab-ugs.zip

Conky Startup

  1. What you need to do to make it work when start-up is using Conky-Manager
  2. Then thick what you need to show about the system


when you need to add some widget or themes of conky you can go to this button !

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