A CPU monitor

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Jay Mistry <jaylinux53 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Do you know if there's any way to integrate conky
>> into a gnome panel?  That would be ideal.  I guess I could probably
>> fiddle with the height of the panel and just display conky above or
>> below the panel.
>
> Not that I know of since Conky basically runs off the desktop. I have
> Conky running from a custom ~/.conkyrc file on the desktop and use the
> 'Workspace Switcher' applet to view it (Note that the 'Show Desktop'
> applet won't work as it minimizes the conky display as well), you can
> have a look at this thread from Ubuntu Forums:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865&highlight=.conkyrc
>
> Has a number of .conkyrc files for customized Conky's, you may find
> one to suit your needs. My current ~/.conkyrc is a modified one from
> that thread.

Nice, thanks.  I ended up doing what I thought I'd do, placing conky
between two vertical panels.  Conky's the same width as the panels, so
it looks fine.  And conky's amazingly flexible and very nice looking,
much better than the simple gnome applet it replaced!

Reid