How to run multiple Conky scripts at the same time

Luis Gómez

2 minutes

Conky

Few of our readers will be unaware of what it is Conky and what is it for. This popular monitoring app It includes a desktop dock that allows us to view the status of our equipment and have all the information as close as possible. Through the following tutorial that we leave you, you can configure different scripts with which to view different configurations and, therefore, a greater amount of information.

Conky is an application that has very good acceptance within the Linux community. At a glance we can have information about the temperature of our processor, the amount of available disk space, the quality of the Wi-Fi signal or the use of RAM. Its widget has a large number of themes with which to customize the appearance of our desktop and is, in short, one of the applications that every user should have on their system.

With hundreds of different settings and lots of themes, Conky is one of the most versatile applications for X systems. From simple task monitoring to the ability to show us system resources or the weather of our city, the greatest difficulty that this application presents is that it integrates correctly with the appearance of our wallpaper image. Now, what happens when we want to run more than one instance of Conky at the same time?

If you want run multiple instances of this application without having to deal with the file.conkyrc, maybe you prefer to create several configuration files like .conkyrc1 or .conkyrc2 and then run an initial script that adjusts your preferences. The script code that you will have to use to locate your Conky configuration files is the following:

#!/bin/sh sleep 5 
conky -q -c /home/YOURUSERNAME/.conky/conky1/conkyrc1 & 
conky -q -c /home/YOURUSERNAME/.conky/conky2/conkyrc2 & exit

Remember to save this code and assign it the necessary permissions for its execution at startup.

start-up-applications

To have all your themes loaded at startup, you can add the script you just created inside the startup applications in Startup Applications> Add> script path.


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  1.   pedro said
    ago 8 years

    Very good tutorial, I am looking to run different conkys on several virtual desktops at the same time, that is, each desktop will show a different conky, I don't know if it will be possible.

    On the other hand I liked the configuration of the conky of the photo, it would be possible for you to publish it.

    Thank you very much and greetings.

    Wolves

    Reply to pedro