13 Breathtaking Conky Configurations

Though we used to talk a lot about Ubuntu desktop eyecandy, Conky is something we never really discussed at all. Conky Ubuntu Lucid theme was the only exception, which is by far the most easy to install Conky theme I have ever used. So as to settle the Conky drought once and for all, here we feature one of the best collection of Conky configurations available.

• Bionic Conky - Download and Installation Instructions

• Hi-Tek Conky - Download and Installation Instructions

• Conky Colors - Download and Installation Instructions

• 'A New Start' GTK Theme Pack Which Includes Conky Files Also.

• Steel Conky - Download and Installation Instructions

• Conky Street - Download and Installation Instructions

• Oriental Conky Widgets - No Download Candidate available, Try this instead.

• Tonky Desktop v0.5 - Download and Installation Instructions

• Conky Tron - Download and Installation Instructions

• Conky Rings 3 - Download and Installation Instructions

• Conky Meet Faenza - Download and Installation Instructions

• Conky NightDrive - Download and Installation Instructions

• Gold And Grey Conky - Download and Installation Instructions

Hope you liked them. And if you are a customization fanatic, you should also check out this beautiful collection of 15 stunning linux desktop customizations. 

install Conky Colors Ubuntu 10.10

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. You've seen it in many screenshots under various forms; take a look at these screenshots if you don't know what Conky is.


A while back we told you about a really easy way to configure Conky using a GUI called ConkyWizard - which is very nice, but it doesn't come with plugins and too many options. Conky Colors on the other hand doesn't come with a GUI but is just as easy to set up (from the command line) and it comes with A LOT of options and scripts (from Gmail to Rhythmbox, weather and more) so you can create an amazing looking Conky in a matter of seconds (don't let our long guide fool you - you just have to install a few packages and run Conky Colors). You can view a list of options supported by Conky Colors, here.


How to set up and use Conky Colors in Ubuntu
1)
For Ubuntu 10.04 or older only: Add the Conky PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:norsetto/ppa

sudo apt-get update

For any Ubuntu Version

sudo apt-get install conky-all

2. Install other required packages

You'll also need the following packages:

sudo apt-get install python-statgrab ttf-droid curl

Optional: if you want Conky to display your CPU / motherboard temperatures and hard disk, also install lm-sensors and hddtemp:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors hddtemp

Now you need to configure lm-sensors. Run this in a terminal:

sudo sensors-detect

Then enter "y" for everything and run this to start the sensors:

sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools start

For hddtemp to work in Ubuntu 10.04, you need to run this command:

sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp

And then reboot.


3. Download Conky Colors

4. Configure Conky Colors
a) Extract the downloaded archive (from step 3), use a terminal to navigate to the folder where you extracted it and run:

make

b) Now to see all the available options, use the following command:

./conky-colors --help

Then to set up everything, simply run "./conky-colors" followed by the options you want. Here is an example:

./conky-colors --lang=english --theme=ambiance --cpu=2 --cputemp --swap --updates --hdtemp1=sda --proc=3 --clock=modern --nvidia --calendar --m --network --rhythmbox=case --ubuntu

I used the command above to get Conky the way it looks in the screenshot in the beginning of the post.

There are many options available such as themes, Gmail, Rhythmbox (or other music players) plugins, network info, hard drive temperatures, available / used disk space, display images, weather, todo lists, battery status and lots more - like I said, to see them all, use "./conky-colors --help".

c) Once you are done, run the following command:

make install

d) Try it out. Run conky by pressing Alt + F2 and then type "conky" or type "conky" into a terminal. To close conky, if you run it from a terminal press Ctrl + C or type "killall conky".

4. Put Conky in your Startup applications

To run Conky when your computer starts, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications, add a new startup application and under "Name" enter "conky" and under command, enter "~/.conkycolors/bin/conkyStart"

3 Beautiful Conky Configurations

1. Conky Meet Faenza

2. Conky Launchpad

3. Conky Ken

The first 2 Conky setups above are very easy to configure - just install conky, then copy the extracted files (look for hidden files and folders too) into your folder and that's it. Conky Ken takes a bit longer to set up but it's not all that difficult, however I couldn't get the weather to work (it might have something to do with might location though). For each of the 3 Conky setups above, download the archive and see the README for exact installation instructions.

And speaking of Conky - Conky Colors, an utility to easily set up amazing custom Conky configuration has just been updated (by the way, I was using Conky Colors in the Compiz 0.9.2 screenshot). Download the latest Conky Colors | How to set up Conky Colors Cairo mode (rings).

Window Applets 0.2.10

Window Applets is a package that comes with two Gnome panel applets: Window Title and Window Buttons which are basically controls for windows that are placed on the Panel instead of the window. They provide a clever way to increase vertical screen space.

New features / changes in Window Applets 0.2.10:

• Disabled applet hiding by default (it was causing confusion with new users)
• Added option to override button orientation (automatic/default, horizontal and vertical)
• Added option to reverse button order
• Updated themes: Ambiance-Maverick, Radiance-Maverick (thank you Cierreics)
• Saturate title icon and darken text on inactive
• Select a more apropriate non-custom title text color
• Added options to set both active and inactive font/color
• Added experimental option to show window action menu on title right click. Warning: Overrides applet menu over title.

To install Window Applets 0.2.10 in Ubuntu, you can use the WebUpd8 PPA:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gnome-window-applets

Then, right click the Gnome Panel, select "Add to panel" and add "Window Title" and "Window Buttons".

Faenza 0.8 GNOME Icon Theme

This icon theme for Gnome provides monochromatic icons for panels, toolbars and buttons and colourful squared icons for devices, applications, folder, files and Gnome menu items.

An installation script let you choose the logo of your favourite distribution and the appearance of the main menu icon (Gnome/distrib, monochrome/colour).

 Two themes are included to fit with light or dark panels.

 This is a work in progress: a lots of icons are missing especially for devices and emblems.

Installation

Download the tar.gz file and extract it. In the new folder created, run the ./INSTALL script to choose the distribution logo (Ubuntu, by default) and the Gnome menu icon. If run as root, the script will copy the iconsets to /usr/share/icons to made them available to all users. Some default icons used by Rhythmbox and Dockmanager may be also replaced.
Run ./UNINSTALL as root to restore defaults icons.

Launchpad PPA
Faenza icon theme is available to install for Ubuntu users via a PPA repository. Open a terminal and run :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox

         sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

You can also install the folowing packages:
* faenza-icons-mono to replace 22x22 squared icons for Deluge, Exaile, Fusion Icon, iBus and Kupfer by their monochromatic counterpart.
* faenza-extras or faenza-dark-extras to override some icons displayed in system tray by Faenza monochromatic ones. This affects Liferea, LastFM and RadioTray. Just install the package to match the theme you are using.

Known issues

* You can experience some problems with sound volume icons from Faenza-Dark if your GTK theme display some 22x22 icons in buttons: the icon displayed is the one used for the (dark) panel. This theme blends generally better with a GTK theme that display small icons in toolbars (22x22) and buttons (16x16). You can change the theme's icons size by editing the gtkrc file and adding this kind of line at the beginning:

 gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=22,22:panel=22,22:gtk-button=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=22,22"

* A lots of applications does not currently support support monochromatic tray icon (deluge, gnome-do, skype, spotify, goldendict) without changing the application icon itself.

* Some applications are configured to always use the same icon regardless of the selected theme: e.g. emacs23, gcolor2, bluefish, hardinfo, defcon, gufw, pithos, goldendict, rssowl, vim, picasa, netbeans, gazpacho. 

To display the Faenza icon, edit as root the /usr/share/applications/application_name.desktop file and locate the line beginning with 'Icon='. Replace the fullpath icon name by the one of the Faenza icon (usually, it's the name of the application itself) without the extension. Don't forget to make a backup before changing one of those files. In some cases, you need to reinitialize the item in Gnome menu editor to display the new icon. Vim desktop file is /usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop.
Picasa desktop files are located in /usr/share/local/applications.

 * Java applications like jDownloader or Frostwire doesn't support themes even if you edit the corresponding .desktop files.

 

Enable Transparent Gnome Panels/Menus/Windows in Ubuntu 10.10

Do you want to customize your Ubuntu desktop with the transparent panels, menus, and windows? As we know, Compiz can do the job, but what if you don't need a complete transparency and want the font and controls/buttons is still perfectly visible?

This tutorial is about how to enable RGBA transparency in Gnome desktop, and this might be what you want.
 
Preparation :

To get RGBA transparency enabled in your Ubuntu, first you need to install and enable graphics driver properly.

And in right-click desktop menu "Change Desktop Background" option Visual Effects tab, make sure Normal or Extra was enabled.

Installation:

Open up a teminal from Appications -> Accessoires menu and add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:erik-b-andersen/rgba-gtk

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Now, install gnome-color-chooser and you can use it to enable RGBA:

sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser gtk2-module-rgba

Launch gnome-color-chooser at System > Preferences > Gnome Color Chooser. Go to Engines tab, tick "Global" and select "Murrine" in the drop-down box.

Now, click Preferences button to go to its configuration window and check the two check-boxes after "Configuration of Enable/Disable RGBA support"

Finally, logout and back in.

Note:

1. You can also install murrine themes with below command, and use it in right-click desktop -> Change Desktop Background -> Theme tab -> click Customize button.

sudo apt-get install murrine-themes

2. Due to bugs, the panel is only partially transparent and only GTK+ applications support RGBA transparency.

Screenshot:

fern-wifi-cracker

Wireless security auditing application

This is a wireless security auditing application that is written in python and uses python-qt4. This application uses the aircrack-ng suite of tools.
It should work on any version of linux running the following:

Requirements:
python
python-qt4
macchanger
aircrack-ng
xterm

To install simply run the following command in terminal after changing directory to the path were the downloaded package is:
dpkg -i Fern-Wifi-Cracker_1.1_all.deb
Software Icon can be found at the application Menu of the GNOME desktop interfaces
Icon can also be found at /usr/share/applications for KDE and also GNOME:
There you find "Fern_Wifi_Cracker.desktop"

Downloads:
http://fern-wifi-cracker.googlecode.com/files/Fern-Wifi-Cracker_1.1_all.deb

Guide to using apt-get

apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user’s “back-end” to other tools using the APT library. APT is actually both a library and a front-end for dpkg to work with Debian’s .deb packages. It’s designed to track package dependencies, call dpkg and make the software installation easy.

Note: This entry is written with Ubuntu users in mind, hence the use of sudo when root access is required.

Package installation

Install a new package like follows:

sudo apt-get install foobar

You can also install multiple packages with one line, just separate the package names with a space:

sudo apt-get install foobar1 foobar2 foobar3

All required dependencies by the package(s) specified for installation will also be retrieved and installed.

Search

(OK, so you don’t use apt-get for searching, but apt-cache. Still comes in pretty handy though.) When you can’t remember the correct package name then you can search package names and descriptions using

apt-cache search foobar

Or, for a fuzzy search try

apt-cache search foo

This can result in a long list, every package that includes ‘foo’ anywhere in its name or description will be listed. To narrow it down to package names, or packages with words in their descriptions, which start with ‘foo’ try

apt-cache search ^foo

For names/words that end with ‘foo’ try

apt-cache search foo$

Installation from source

Instead of APT fetching the pre-built .deb for a package you can also use APT to build the package from its source code and get an optimised version for your system. Generally debs are absolutely fine to install, but you could see performance increases with CPU intensive packages (e.g. ffmpeg).

sudo apt-get build-dep foobar
sudo apt-get -b source foobar

The first line causes apt-get to install/remove packages in an attempt to satisfy the build dependencies for the package foobar. The second line fetches the source package for foobar. It finds and downloads the newest available version of that source package into the current directory. Source packages are tracked separately from binary packages via deb-src type lines in the /etc/apt/sources.list file. This probably will mean that you will not get the same source as the package you have installed or as you could install. With the -b option specified the package will be compiled to a binary .deb using dpkg-buildpackage. Depending on the package this can take a long time.

Once built, install the package with

sudo dpkg -i foobar-version-number.deb

Package removal and clean-up

To remove a package use

sudo apt-get remove foobar

The software package will be removed, but all of its configuration files will be left behind. This could come in handy if you ever plan on re-installing the package, everything will be back to the way it was before the uninstall.

To remove a package complete with its configuration files use

sudo apt-get --purge remove foobar

What happens to dependencies that were installed with the package? They are left behind. To clean these up use

sudo apt-get autoremove

autoremove removes packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for some package and that are no longer needed. If you have been trying out a lot of software then this might free up some disk space.

sudo apt-get autoclean

autoclean clears out the local repository (/var/cache/apt/archives/ and/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/) of retrieved package files that can no longer be downloaded and are largely useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long period without it growing out of control.

sudo apt-get clean

clean is more thorough than autoclean. It removes everything but the lock file from/var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. You will likely want to run apt-get clean from time to time to free up disk space.

Upgrade

There are two ways to upgrade your system. First a software update:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

This installs the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.

Second, a distro upgrade:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a “smart” conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files.

source : http://www.larryni.me.uk/blog/

Elegant Gnome Pack on Ubuntu

This is a project that provides an automatic configuration of your GNOME desktop just in one click, with the backup and restoring support.
The main goal of this projects is to create the most complete dark theme for the GNOME desktop with easy installation experience.

You must have this stuff installed on your system before you'll start:
Murrine GTK engine 0.98.0 or higher
Droid Sans Font
Nautilus Elementary (optional)

 

The pack contains the following stuff :

GUI utility to configure your desktop
Icon theme: Elegant-AwOken based on the AwOken icon set by alecive
GTK+ theme: Elegant GTK theme v 4.0
Cursor Theme: Neutral++ by ducakar
Wallpaper: gDIGE by *Muscarr
Keyboard layout indicator flags
Firefox theme
Google Chrome theme by Jorge Carrillo
Google Chrome scrollbar extension
Google Chrome selection extension
Smplayer theme
Pidgin buddy list theme by Szabo Istvan

 

Ubuntu Lucid/Maverick and Linux Mint 9/10 installation instructions:

 1. Install Elegant GNOME:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elegant-gnome/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
a)sudo apt-get install elegant-gnome
or
b)sudo apt-get install elegant-gnome-mint

  2. Go to "Applications -> Accessories -> Elegant GNOME"
1. Install Nautilus Elementary: (optional)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade 2. Run Elegant GNOME app
3. Choose Configure Nautilus -> Nautilus Elementary
 

To install the pack from sources:

1. Download the archive and extract it  

2. Open the terminal and cd to the extracted directory.
3. Run the command "make "(e.g. "make ubuntu").
run "make help" to see the available variants.
4. Run the command "sudo make install".
5. Go to "Applications -> Accessories -> Elegant GNOME".
6. Optional step. If you use the Nautilus Elementary:
a) Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Elegant GNOME
b) Choose "Configure Nautilus"
c) Select "Nautilus Elementary"
 

To remove the pack:(installed from sources)

1. Open the terminal and cd to the extracted directory.  

2. Run the command "sudo make uninstall"
 

To install the Google Chrome theme:

1. Download and extract the "Google Chrome" archive
2. Drag and drop the *.crx files into the Google Chrome window.

Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcuts For Linux Power Users

Get lightning fast and clever at the command line

You can use keyboard shortcuts and other command line tricks to make entering commands easier and faster. You might already know about the ‘tab’ key which completes partial commands and even file and directory names.

Here are some other keyboard shortcuts you can use within terminal:


Ctrl-a Move to the start of the line.
Ctrl-e Move to the end of the line.

Alt-] x Moves the cursor forward to the next occurrence of x.

Alt-Ctrl-] x Moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurrence of x.

Ctrl-u Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.

Ctrl-k Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.

Ctrl-w Delete from the cursor to the start of the word.

Ctrl-y Pastes text from the clipboard.

Ctrl-l Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen.

Ctrl-x Ctrl-u Undo the last changes. Ctrl-_

Alt-r Undo all changes to the line.

Alt-Ctrl-e Expand command line.

Ctrl-r Incremental reverse search of history.

Alt-p Non-incremental reverse search of history.
!! Execute last command in history

!abc Execute last command in history beginning with abc

!n Execute nth command in history

^abc^xyz Replace first occurrence of abc with xyz in last command and execute it

Also don’t forget to check out 4 websites where you can learn cool command line tricks

Install Grimwepa Ubuntu 10.10

Installation

Installation is not required for GRIM WEPA to run properly, but it is recommended if you use are going to GRIM WEPA frequently.

GrimWepa can be downloaded and installed by running 

wget http://grimwepa.googlecode.com/files/grimwepa1.10a6.jar

To run GRIM WEPA, navigate to the file's location in Terminal and type:

java -jar grimwepa1.10a6.jar

Run GRIM WEPA as root!


* for better cracking please use good wifi booster and install best driver to it.
* we personally recommend you to use Wifite wifi craker.

Install Wifite Ubuntu 10.10

introduction

designed for Backtrack4 RC1 distribution of Ubuntu. Linux only; no windows or osx support.

purpose

to attack multiple WEP and WPA encrypted networks at the same time. this tool is customizable to be automated with only a few arguments. wifite can be trusted to run without supervision. 

features

• this project is available in French: all thanks goto Matt² for his excellent translation!
• sorts targets by power (in dB); cracks closest access points first
• automatically deauths clients of hidden networks to decloak SSIDs
• numerous filters to specify exactly what to attack (wep/wpa/both, above certain signal strengths, channels, etc)
• customizable settings (timeouts, packets/sec, channel, change mac address, ignore fake-auth, etc)
• "anonymous" feature; changes MAC to a random address before attacking, then changes back when attacks are complete
• all WPA handshakes are backed up to wifite.py's current directory
• smart WPA deauthentication -- cycles between all clients and broadcast deauths
• stop any attack with Ctrl+C -- options: continue, move onto next target, skip to cracking, or exit
• switching WEP attack methods does not reset IVs
• intel 4965 chipset fake-authentication support; uses wpa_supplicant workaround
• SKA support (untested)
• displays session summary at exit; shows any cracked keys
• all passwords saved to log.txt
• built-in updater: ./wifite.py -upgrade

requirements

• linux operating system (confirmed working on Ubuntu 8.10 (BT4R1), Ubuntu 10.04.1)
• tested working with python 2.4.5 and python 2.5.2; might be compatible with other versions,
• wireless drivers patched for monitor mode and injection: backtrack4 has many pre-patched drivers,
• aircrack-ng (v1.1) suite: available via apt: apt-get install aircrack-ng or by clicking here,
• xterm, python-tk module: required for GUI, available via apt: apt-get install python-tk
• macchanger: also available via apt: apt-get install macchanger
• pyrit: not required, optionally strips wpa handshake from .cap files

execution

download the latest version:

wget -O wifite.py http://wifite.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wifite.py

change permissions to executable:

chmod +x wifite.py

execute:

python wifite.py

or, to see a list of commands with info:

./wifite.py -help

* for better cracking please use good wifi booster and install best driver to it.


all the password will be save at user folder as log.txt