Do you use a Conky?

[PDP-8Member]

Yep. The reason I like to get a second opinion on memory, is about cache-clearing, otherwise Conky might just ballpark.

Call up HTOP, along with Task Manager, with Conky besides, and you’ll typically see lower memory usage instead of Conky, since they clear the cache and they tend to agree with each other.

It’s a minor thing really since most don’t know how (not saying you!) ram works in Linux, BUT if one is going to gas-gauge it for comparison purposes, use a tool that clears the cache. Nerd stuff here though.. 🙂

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by PDP-8.

[bradhamiltonMember]

Nope – don’t need it or want it.

That being said, it’s very difficult to turn it off permanently in antiX, but I also run MXLinux, and it’s easier to make it go away, and stay away.

I do understand that many folks like it, but it’s just eye candy that gets in the way of my wallpapers, many of which are pictures of family, pets, and good times that I like to remember.

Just my USD$0.02…

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[PDP-8Member]

Yeah, that’s cool. To each his own. Not that hard really to temporarily disable it: menu > desktop > conky on & off. More permanent way it to edit the desktop session file covered elsewhere.

So funny – when I run instances of MX, when I see Conky, I want MORE info, and start looking for it’s configuration file. 🙂

Different strokes I guess. I’m a guy who STILL runs analog XCLOCK (conveniently placed under conky) and when I had to manually add that to MX, well – have to notify dolphin-oracle immediately! 🙂

We’re all good…

[Xunzi_23Member]

Conky:

That being said, it’s very difficult to turn it off permanently in antiX,

That is not correct. Easy to understand Howto and discussion have been in the forum for a couple of years.

http://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/disable-conky/

[sybokMember]

That being said, it’s very difficult to turn it off permanently in antiX

Also, beware that the ‘conkytoggle.sh’ script (present in my antiX full and I believe there was a GUI for that) does it for the current session only as @PDP-8 indicated.
This is achieved by killing the ‘conky’ process without altering any configuration file.
This can be misguiding because “for the current session” is not explicitly mentioned.

[marcelocripeMember]

bradhamilton wrote:

That being said, it’s very difficult to turn it off permanently in antiX, but I also run MXLinux, and it’s easier to make it go away, and stay away.

Please do not write words that denigrate antiX.

To disable Conky from antiX startup with a few clicks, simply use the program “antiX’s Conky Manager” which was developed by PPC.

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bradhamilton wrote:

That being said, it’s very difficult to turn it off permanently in antiX, but I also run MXLinux, and it’s easier to make it go away, and stay away.

Por favor, não escreva palavras que denigrem o antiX.

Para desativar o Conky da inicialização do antiX com alguns cliques, basta utilizar o programa “antiX’s Conky Manager” que foi desenvolvido pelo PPC.

[bradhamiltonMember]

Xunzi_23 wrote:

Conky:

That being said, it’s very difficult to turn it off permanently in antiX,

That is not correct. Easy to understand Howto and discussion have been in the forum for a couple of years.

http://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/disable-conky/

Yes, I finally found it a month or so ago, after a difficult search through the forums.

I guess there’s not much call for disabling it – otherwise, the “HowTo” would be easier to find, and possibly be worthy of a “sticky” post, so that the info could be found quickly.

It’s just not for me, and I mean no disrespect by mentioning the relative difficulty in removal, compounded by the fact that the config file had a repeated conky section at the end of the config file – apparently, the config file was subsequently fixed in a later iteration.

[PDP-8Member]

I think ultimately it boils down to the differences between how a DE works, and how a WM is not just for lightness.

Without starting a flamewar about it, with a DE, one is moving the furniture around, and if something doesn’t work, you hope that it gets fixed in the next release. With a WM, if something is not to your liking, you dig in and make it your way, which involves editing config files and perhaps home-grown scripting. It doesn’t have to be the default presentation. For instance in BookWormPup, Conky is present and has the same sort of temporary toggle. But the JWM both it and antiX use, have vastly different looking desktops with jwm.

I suppose the same could be true of MX fluxbox. If something isn’t to one’s liking, they dig in to fluxbox and change it without asking permission or waiting for the maintainer to change it. Even better – keep notes. Whether it’s a paper notebook, or my current fav – CherryTree (thanks anticapitalista!), that’s half the fun. Take screenshots of web pages, the simplest combination is Scrot (scrot -s I use a lot from the run menu), and FEH to view.

So it’s kind of apples-and-oranges – a different mindset if you will. Which one is better? You decide. It’s all good. 🙂

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[Brian MasinickModerator]

@pdp-8 You are right and I’ve said this numerous times for many years. The choice of desktop, window manager, distribution, Web Browser, text editor, and here’s a controversial one, a free or a commmercial system and applications is also a choice. Just because we don’t like commercial software, that’s our choice. Others should also be free to choose whatever it is that they want.

Though I’m not a huge promoter of commercial software, more than once that commercial software kept me in a job and jobs are extremely important.

So sometimes it’s not about preferences, it’s about employment; whatever the reason, each individual ought to have the opportunity to choose whatever works best for them, and it is not fair for any of us to judge their motivations or reasons. To me, choices are extremely important, and I’m grateful for both free and commercial hardware and software.

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[andfreeMember]

I have turned it off in system startup, for saving resources reasons. I only turn it on when I need to check something (usually, the wi-fi).

antiX utilities for processing PDF files (posted by ChPol)

[berasMember]

Conky is good if have multi monitor setup or big 4K monitor.

Small monitor, web browser alone already full desktop

[Xunzi_23Member]

Hi bradhamilton,
How to turn off conky, is in my experience rarely requested, it is pretty easy to find
I searched antiX disable conky (no ai) using several engines, the relevant thread
was always in the first hits.

We are individuals with individual tastes, I see all sorts of customised conkys and get asked
about them at times, most users want to see system temperatures, some weathr in 3 citys.

Others, well I am thinking of how to show the state of charge on my solar system.

Regarding ease of forum usage, the included search is (not so humble opinion), useless.
It all boils down to antiX being a small distribution.
MX has more attention, more devs and helpers more forum admins, more funds but something from
another planet and philosophic attitude.

[Brian MasinickModerator]

Conky is a very flexible tool. It should be noted that there is an older, classic version of Conky. Most of the stock antiX provided instances have used this older version, though a few people have written code and used newer versions. As far as I know a lot of the variations used with MX Linux utilize the newer version of Conky.

I have instances of both. At the moment I’m using the right side Conky version first introduced with antiX many years ago so I’m certain it’s the old classic; the one I’m using now shows antiX at the top, the time right below antiX, the uptime, then the display resolution and various CPU, disk, memory and network statistics, some enclosed in a box.

I also customized my own version based on an alternative that @PPC produced a couple of years ago. I think it’s also based on the classic code because it doesn’t use any special graphics, but I’m not positive. I’d have to go there and look to be certain.

In any case it’s useful to know that there are multiple versions of Conky available; use the one that matches your interests and capabilities; antiX has been using the older, classic one.

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[DaveForum Admin]

Though the original conkytoggle.sh script is small and covers the majority of use cases; Here is an updated version that supports the toggling of multiple running conky files. The options to toggle the loading of conky during startup and a gui with buttons to toggle the running conky and startup is also added. Though I am not fully convinced they latter options are truly needed and may contribute to “bloat”. They are easy enough to remove if this is the case.

https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/desktop-defaults-base/-/merge_requests/2/diffs

Desktop-session startup of conky has also been altered to acknowledge a ~/.conky/conky-saved.sh file so that multiple conky instances can be started / recognized during startup.
https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/desktop-session-antix/-/merge_requests/23/diffs

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[dan_333Member]

YES
but i will lyke it by default in normal window mode, so you can use alt+tab to check it.

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