Conky in desktop background?

[Link]

I remember seeing a few months back Conky in the background on some desktops, I wanted to give it a try.


Can anyone give me the commands I need to use to incorporate this?


Call me NOOB

 

[DaMummy]

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/55775-conky

 

[Link]

Thanks man!


DIdn't look over there!


And it works, just copied Spirit's Config.

 

[Kosmos]

OK I wish someone would have told the newbies to rename spirit's .conkyrc to conky.conf


Anyway, how would I now get Conky to autostart when I login?

 

[gruso]

In Settings -> Session and Startup you can add startup programs. To launch a PND you'll need the pnd_run command, eg:

pnd_run /media/SD_CARD_NAME/pandora/apps/APPNAME.pnd

 

[Kosmos]

Success! Thanks Gruso, exactly what I needed. first I tried adding it to my .bashrc only to find myself locked out at login staring at Conky on the Login screen.


I then discovered the [Pnd]+[R]+power. boot to CLI. Navigate to /media/SDcard/ROOT/home/username/ and discovered nano installed ..... removed the offending line and used your method instead.


My Tuxedo is hurting! or is that a Tuxego?

 

[gruso]

McGyvering. That's the way.

 

[Kosmos]

McGyvering. That's the way.

Yup, finishing up season 5. We had to skip 2&3 as not they were unavailable at Sams. Needed some practice ;-)


I think I need to add a backup account... I used DSL a while ago and always wondered about the info display on the desktop. I liked it. Nice to have it back. Now to customize it.

 

[Stainy]

HI..I got this running...http://www.gp32x.de...post__p__904063 but it seems to cover up my desk icons..if I click on where abouts they are.. they appear.. but within a second they disappear again.. any ideas?? I`ve not modified anything thus far..

 

[porg]

In Settings -> Session and Startup you can add startup programs. To launch a PND you'll need the pnd_run command, eg:

pnd_run /media/SD_CARD_NAME/pandora/apps/APPNAME.pnd

In Settings -> Session and Startup you can add startup programs. To launch a PND you'll need the pnd_run command, eg:

pnd_run /media/SD_CARD_NAME/pandora/apps/APPNAME.pnd

If you install the PND utilities, available in the repo, you get pqr (pnd quick run).

With this, the command line would simply be:

pqr Conky

Advantages:


Shorter command.


More adaptive. No need for static path, as pqr will find it anywhere within the default PND search paths.

 

[MarkW]

SInce this seems to have become a conky questions thread, I'll pose one:

I'd like to show the USB status ...... can someone steer me towards where I might find this please? If I can find the file where the current status is stored, I'm sure I can jigger something together