Do you use a Conky?
- #1 Yes
- #2 No
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Brian Masinick
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.
Given that I have both antiX and MX Linux installed I have both standard and modern implementations of Conky between the two.
I happen to be logged into MX Linux while updating; I have a Conky that looks very similar to the antiX Conky, but last I checked, MX uses the newer Conky setup; antiX uses an older standard setup. Most of the .conkyrc has similar syntax unless you utilize newer features.--
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Yes, just looked and MX uses some of their own setups and takes advantage of the newer conky-all package whereas antiX uses the conky-std package.
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Conky is one of the first things removed, following right after Firefox. One desktop is always dedicated to the terminal. Lately I’ve been using Qterminal. It uses 1/3 the resources of kitty/tmux. Split the Qterm window and one side always has Glances. Excellent monitoring tool that shows tons of system info, with a small footprint.
m4r35n357
It was one of the first things I disabled on MX; I use a pretty full set of XFCE sensors so it is just duplication. Since moving to FVWM on other machines, I have adopted conky as a stand-in for the sadly-defunct gkrellm. So my vote would be “sometimes” 😉
[UPDATE] apparently gkrellm is NOT defunct 😉
[ADDITIONAL] I don’t dislike Conky, but gkrellm is a huge nostalgia hit for me, so I built it from source on Alpine too. I suppose my vote is turning into a “no” 😉
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