No Open Blockers

When I first started out using Linux, I was introduced to FVWM as a display manager. I quickly became, well, addicted to dorking with my .fvwm2rc config file. I was hooked on how many possibilities and customizations could be made. I’ve since stopped using FVWM for various reasons (not the least of which is their abrasive community) and thought my config file tweaking addiction was cured.

Then I found Conky. The easiest description is found directly on their site: “Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.” The addictive part is that there are hundreds of variables that can be displayed as part of its monitoring. Do I need, at all times, to see the amount of space left on my /home partition? No. Does the fact that I can do it make it awesome anyway? Hell yeah.

In the past week, I’ve had a number of coworkers see it running on my laptop and ask me what it was and how to configure it. The “what” part can be seen in the top right corner of my desktop below (click the image for the full size 1680×1050 version):

The “how”, or at least my settings, can be found here. I’m playing around with a personal github account for backing up and sharing this sort of stuff. I’m still not sure how much I’ll use it, but for now my conky config file can be found there. It’s a bit of a mess, but should be at least enough to give users an idea of what can be done. If anyone knows of any particularly cool use of it that I’m missing, definitely let me know.