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Infinity: A Stunning Theme for Conky | Ubuntu, LinuxMint and Fedora

Written by M. Zinoune on October 17, 2012. Posted in Fedora, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. There are many nice themes available for Conky that can display clock, CPU usage, RAM usage, swap, disk, net and more, Infinity is one of these themes built using lua and provide a great look to your desktop.

In this post I will show you how to install Infinity Conky theme in Ubuntu (tested in Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’, Ubuntu 13.04 ‘Raring Ringtail’), LinuxMint and Fedora.

Installation instructions of Infinity Theme for Conky:

1- Install Conky

- For Ubuntu and LinuxMint:

sudo apt-get install conky-all

- Fedora:

yum install conky

2- Download and extract the Infinity tar file, remember that you need to install rar and unrar to be able to extract the file, run this command to install some useful extraction tools:

sudo apt-get install unace unrar zip unzip p7zip-full p7zip-rar sharutils rar uudeview mpack lha arj cabextract file-roller

3- Now open the infinity folder and rename the following folders and files:

Change name of conkyrc to .conkyrc

Change name of lua to .lua

Change name of conky to .conky

4- Copy these 3 files .conkyrc, .lua and .conky files to your /home directory.

5 - Open .conkyrc and adjust the screen resolution according to your desktop, to see your resolution go to Applications –> Displays:

And change the resolution in the .conkyrc file, if your resolution is 1366X768 then you don`t have to do anything.

6- Also adjust haunted.lua in .lua directory according to screen resolution (Go to next step if your resolution is : 1366 X 768).
7- Now you are ready to run Conky.
Open terminal and type:

$chmod a+x ~/.conky/startconky.sh
 $sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh

It will start after a delay of 15.
8- Start Conky with startup:

If you want Conky to load with startup, go to startup applications:

and add this command to startup application as described below:

sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh

That is all.

Now you have a nice desktop like this:

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

http://www.facebook.com/Daviek19 David Kamau

ave tried this and its soo cool.
Eli

For Gnome 3 instructions here ==> http://www.noobslab.com/2012/06/install-infinity-conky-in-ubuntulinux.html
http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Green/100001808911369 Stephen Green

I just might have to check this out..
Hanynowsky Madany

The script is not adapted for a 1366 screen laptop running Unity. It should be modified in order to leave space for DEsktop icons. A modified script can be download here:
http://ubuntuone.com/3Ws6O63yjkBB73IQVdK4Mk
- Neeraj
  
  this is just a screenshot, where is the SCRIPT?
  - Niccolò Crapis
    
    click on the link not on the image
    - Xavi
      
      Same result :(
      - Hanynowsky Madany
        
        No not the same result. THE LINK IN ORANGE! this one: http://ubuntuone.com/3Ws6O63yjkBB73IQVdK4Mk
  - jusqz
    
    other files are there the thing is that are hidden since their name starts with (.) you can simply copy them using terminal by issuing the following command “sudo cp -r /Downloads/conky/.conky” and “sudo cp /Downloads/conky/.conkyrc” and “sudo cp -r /Downloads/conky/.lua”
  - jusqz
    
    ******* OOOOH JUST FORGOT TO INCLUDE DESTINATION IN THE COMMAND *****
    
    other files are there the thing is that are hidden since their name starts with (.) you can simply copy them using terminal by issuing the following command “sudo cp -r /Downloads/conky/.conky /home/username/” and “sudo cp /Downloads/conky/.conkyrc /home/username/” and “sudo cp -r /Downloads/conky/.lua /home/username/”
- Raziel
  
  What are those strange symbols behind each font,how to remove them?
  - Hanynowsky Madany
    
    CLick on the link to get conky.tar.gz it’s actually 1.1 MB
    - Rod
      
      yeah, how ca i get rid of the symbos.. the squares after every text… thank you!
    - Rod
      
      yeah, how ca i get rid of the symbos.. the squares after every text… thank you!
    - Rod
      
      Found out: just delete the line breaks in .conkyrc file after TEXT zone
Ganeshan

please give the haunted.lua edited file for 1920×1080 resolution
- rex
  
  yes please I cant figure out what to edit in haunted.lua
  - sam
    
    I didn’t edit anything in lua and it worked fine for me. I have a 1600×900 resolution too.
Nik

After

$sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh
gives error – Permission denied. Please help…
- Giannis Avgeris
  
  The commands should be
  
  chmod a+x ~/.conky/startconky.sh
  sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh
  If you delete the $ symbol it should work just fine
  - Nik
    
    Thank you!
Giannis Avgeris

Be warned that if you enter your exact screen resolution it disables right click on desktop and desktop icons.
- sreekanth67
  
  yeah its correct
Mehdi Falamarzi

I problem with startup.
I added
“sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh” in startup but after restart it not work.
It work only by type in terminal …
How can fix it.
http://www.facebook.com/evjoaomello João Mello

Perfect ;)
http://www.facebook.com/filipposparisis Filippos Parisis

Sounds like a must have application. But is there anything I should know for installing on my Kubuntu machine?
http://www.facebook.com/bigdaddy.stroh BigDaddy Stroh

Can Edit conky add RSS feeds Don’t see any rss feeds to that conky
http://www.facebook.com/Grimace78 Donald Grimes

Pretty freakin cool
Niccolò Crapis

I have a problem with startup.
I added
“sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh” in startup but after restart it doesn’t work.
It works only by type in terminal …
How can I fix it?
- jusqz
  
  you just use this command in startup application “./.conky/startupconky.sh” without quotes
  - http://twitter.com/ronaystein Ronaystein
    
    alt+F2 and conky
  - Ankit Patel
    
    I used ./.conky/startupconky.sh this command but still it doesn’t work after the restart…
    Any help?
    - sobriquet
      
      use the ‘browse’ option to select the startupconky.sh file from its location.
HectorBernal

I can’t find where to set the right resolution in:

6- Also adjust haunted.lua in .lua directory according to screen resolution.

Help?
Abdul

can you please tel mr how to remove it?
billyard

can anyone tell me how to adjust resolution in haunted.lua for 1024×600 resolution
OSkar

Conky: can’t open /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent: No such file or directory
Conky: can’t open /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state: No such file or directory

How can i change that.. Please help.. And i can’t make it a starup application..
prawira

I got the following errors on console. what to do ?
:~/.conky$
Conky: desktop window (1a00095) is subwindow of root window (131)
Conky: window type – override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x5c00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: can’t open /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent: No such file or directory
Conky: can’t open /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state: No such file or directory
Conky: unknown variable
Conky: unknown variable
Conky: unknown variable
Conky: unknown variable
- Ankit Patel
  
  I got the same error..
  please help how to resolve this error.
  - NHreader1
    
    Did you get this fixed? I am having the same issue.
Woj paw

I am struggling with this step no. 77- Now you are ready to run conky

“open terminal and type:

$chmod a+x ~/.conky/startconky.sh
$sh ~/.conky/startconky.sh”

When i type in the terminal:

$chmod a+x ~/.conky/startconky.sh

I get this:

faplik@FAP-BOOK:~$ $chmod a+x ~/.conky/startconky.sh

No command ‘a+x’ found, did you mean:

Command ‘a2x’ from package ‘asciidoc’ (main)

Command ‘a+’ from package ‘aplus-fsf’ (universe)

a+x: command not found

What do I do to fix this?
- AminosAmigos
  
  When typing the comand don’t type the $ at the beginning
dude

m facing a problem with this. after sometime my other windows stop appearing, they goes behind the screen of conky theme .tell me what should i do?
Hélio Alves

Where is the part of the connection. type ip adress appears: in ip. 0b down appears k / s. up also appears 0b k / s. Actually I believe he is not able to recognize my connection. What do I do to fix … thank’s.
nickmrad

i got a 1366 X 768 resolution, the widget works fine but now the right click doesn’t work and i cant place files on the desktop too!!
blades rompolos

very nice,thanx a lot
http://twitter.com/heydarian Nima Heydarian

I just installed the script and am getting a bunch of “unknown variable” messages on the terminal box. Any idea what those variables could be and how i can fix it?
Thanks
Redox

I have two monitors and my secondary monitor is to the right of my primary monitor. When conky runs, it is automatically on my secondary monitor. I assume this is because Conky is placed as far right as possible. The only way I have been able to get Conky on my primary monitor is by using display settings and telling the computer my primary is to the right of my secondary monitor. Any suggestions?
wandi_lin

change startup command with /home/username/.conky/startupconky.sh
http://twitter.com/furiousape Chris

just remember to make the command sudo apt-get install conky-all, not Conky-all with a capital C…
M. Zinoune

Thanks Chris, commands adjusted.
Ken Gutkowski

Okay so am I missing something but where is the link for the Infinity tar file? The article talks about it but the are only Ad links. :-(

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