The MX-17 conkies

[Jerry3904]

I did a web search on this topic, and it looks pretty complicated, so I'm going to take that last part out for the next version.

[entropyfoe]

Jerry,
{partially moved from the beta1 discussion]

This is a personal question of style and taste.
I would not go with the big conky as default. It looks nice on an empty desktop, would make a nice distrowatch screenshot, but for everyday use, too big, and it will be covered in other windows pretty fast. The old MX16 did not have conky on the desktop by default.

I never really used it much my self, only really appreciating it since I installed antix 17.

If it easy to select one of the other 35 conkys, then no problem.

How do I remove the current, and change to a different one?
How can I just get the antix one, it meets my needs.

[Jerry3904]

On removal and change, please see the detailed Help file. To stop the conky open Conky Manager and unckeck the box.

About the antiX conky, you need to post that on the antiX Forum, since I believe they have a wrapper of some kind around it.

[Jerry3904]

Note to Dev Team: we may want to have a Conky toggle in Favorites if we stay with showing one by default.

Name: Conky on/off
Description: Start or stop the selected conky

[richb]

Note to Dev Team: we may want to have a Conky toggle in Favorites if we stay with showing one by default.

Name: Conky on/off
Description: Start or stop the selected conky

Good idea, given multitude of tastes and display differences

[Shay2]

Opened conky manager and unchecked everything.

Copied .conkyrc from Antix to a thumbdrive, then copied to ~/home/my name/
Started it up and

[Jerry3904]

If you want to be able to manage it with the rest of the conkies, remove it from there and put it in ~/.conky/ THen you can use Conky Manager and MX Conky. Check the Help file on how to convert it to a form that MX Conky can use if necessary.

[Shay2]

If you want to be able to manage it with the rest of the conkies, remove it from there and put it in ~/.conky/ THen you can use Conky Manager and MX Conky. Check the Help file on how to convert it to a form that MX Conky can use if necessary.

Thank you.

[Shay2]

opened ~/.conky/
Made a folder labeled Antix, placed .conkyrc in it.
Conky manager sees it and it works fine for me. THANKS!!!

[Jerry3904]

So now open MX Conky, and see if it recognizes the colors being used. If not, then add color declarations following the directions in the Help file.