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Conky Colors problems
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:53 pm
by merc1973
I installed Conky following this site:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php? ... tent=92328
Up to Here: downloaded and extracted and type in terminal but it says "no such file or directory"
Download and extract the conky-colors.tar.gz and type in terminal.
$make
$./conky-colors --help
$./conky-colors
$make install
What do I do now?
Re: Conky Colors problems
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:35 pm
by Biker
You follow the directions!
Although, instead of typing:
make-install
You would type:
sudo make-install
Of course, you have to be in the directory where you extracted the tarball to.
Re: Conky Colors problems
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:51 pm
by merc1973
Biker wrote:You follow the directions!
Although, instead of typing:
make-install
You would type:
sudo make-install
Of course, you have to be in the directory where you extracted the tarball to.
ok,
I extracted to the desktop, is that where it should go? And how do I know what directory I'm in with the terminal? (sorry about the noob questions..)
Re: Conky Colors problems
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 9:04 pm
by mick55
In a terminal type this command. It will show you where you are in the directory structure.
Type this command to change directory to Desktop
Type this command to list the files/directories on the Desktop
You should see the directory/folder created when you extracted the files.
Change directory into that folder
List the files to make sure they are all there
Now run the commands to build the package.
If you get lost just run this command again to see where you are.
If you forget
who you are run this command.
Re: Conky Colors problems
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:25 pm
by merc1973
Mick55, Thanks for "holding my hand"! You Rock! I can now change directories...lol
Now if I can only figure out how to run conky...
I get this:
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tim@tim-laptop ~ $ conky
Conky: desktop window (1e000ae) is subwindow of root window (5f)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x3600001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: obj->data.cpu_index 2 info.cpu_count 1
Conky: attempting to use more CPUs than you have!
Re: Conky Colors problems
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 2:18 am
by mick55
You don't run conky from the terminal.
Press alt+f2 and type conky.
You do however use the terminal to shutdown conky
If you have a .conkyrc file in your home directory conky will follow the instructions
in that, if you don't it runs a generic conky.
Your conky seems to be trying to run a script designed for a dual core CPU.
There
are simpler conky guides on the web than the one you followed.
These 2 links below will help you with Linux commands.
You've already learned the most basic ones, the rest should be easy.
http://linuxcommand.org/index.php
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz