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15Jul/080

Emesene

Now this is a surprise for me writing this!

I used to hate emesene, I didn't like the way it functioned, I hated the constant updating (it's still a little bit annoying, but at least the updates aren't even half as slow as a certain other OS's updates (read: Windows <All Versions> ;) )) and I just generally preferred aMsn, maybe I preferred that slightly because I compiled it from source, whereas emesene was a simple "

sudo apt-get install emesene

" - who knows (or cares).

But I'm now using it, and I'm just in the middle of editing my .conkyrc file (any excuse to use Vim...) And I've got another couple of posts in the works which should appear in the next day or so.

Good to be back! ;)

15Feb/080

Conky (Again)

So I've been asked by a couple of people to write a bit more about Conky such as, my config file for it. And how I installed it, how long it takes to configure, a few options that other people might like. So I'll be posting it in parts in the coming days/weeks (it depends when I get a chance, I'm a bit busy at Uni right now :( )

More to come soon!!

18Jan/084

Conky

I got a little bored yesterday, so I downloaded Conky, it's a kind of system monitor for Linux machines, though if you check it may run on Windows/Mac as well.

Anyway, I decided I wouldn't download it from the repositories ready made and ready to run. I downloaded the source code and compiled it myself, so I had the very latest version :) I'm glad I did, it taught me some new things :)

I have to say that I REALLY like it. Especially because of the capabilities it has...and how much you can customise it...I spent around 2-4 hours customising mine!

Here's a screen shot of the finished product :) (Click the thumbnail for the full size image)

Conky