Conky of the Month Competition!
Just in time for Christmas, I'm proud to announce the first official Conky of the Month (CotM) competition!
Starting today, each month the Conky Blog will hold a CotM competition, with submissions based on a theme. An overall winner will be selected based on the following three criteria:
- Visual Composition: This could be quite broad; if your Conky is purely functional, it might be the ease with which key system stats can be read. But if your Conky is designed to be eye candy, it might be the integration into your desktop or the visual completeness of your config.
- Conky Innovation: Have you used Conky in a new and wonderful way? Have you uncovered a rarely-seen but incredibly useful variable and implemented it? This is to recognise users who push the boundaries of what Conky can do, or seek ways to make their configs simpler.
- Adherence to the theme: Pretty self-explanatory. This will be how well your config expresses the theme of the month. This may be in the Conky itself, or in the entire desktop screenshot.
The winning Conky will be featured on our blog, with a little bio of the author!
This month's theme: Winter Holidays.
Deadline: 15th December.
To submit your Conky for consideration, please write a comment on this post, linking to a screenshot, preferably with details (.conkyrc and/or any scripts you've used). I would recommend that you either write a post on your own blog and link to that, or post on a forum and link to that (so that we can get your picture and details all at once). Alternately, you may wish to link to an image-hosting website like Picasa, Flickr or Imageshack (for your image) and post a separate link to something like pastebin for your configs. There is a private Conky pastebin available at conky.pastebin.com if you so desire.
The winner will be announced at the end of December.
And here's a screenie to get you going:
(Wallpaper from here.)
Happy Conkying!
The fine print: Please be sure that if you submit an image with wallpaper or other non-Conky visual elements showing (e.g. custom icons, fonts, etc.) that you are able to attribute as much of it as possible.
November 24th, 2009 - 13:29
here’s my setup,
http://securityborg.blogspot.com/2009/11/conky-and-compiz-on-my-multi-monitor.html
November 26th, 2009 - 18:59
hi conkyers!!
i made an “invisible” conky setup. i use the ‘if_match’ feature to display info only when i need to…. more on my devart page:
http://arpinux.deviantart.com/art/Pin-Up-Revival-SetUp-144888565
November 28th, 2009 - 07:58
Nov 28, 2009 – OK, here’s my entry. Long story short, I made this for my wife. Nothing fancy, my regular conky with a change of the image on left to the nativity scene, by Rembrandt 1646. and all the text filling the screen. Changed my “date” here so the calendar would reflect December 25th.
The image can be seen here: http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Dec_09.png
The conky file that created that image: http://conky.pastebin.com/m3afc8160
Now last but not least are my “temperature” colorize.sh scripts, and again thank you Crinos512 for this script. Simply put, download it and copy/past the script 5 times and save them as, changing the colours to match my equipments critical temps:
* ~/conky/scripts/ColorTempMB.sh – Motherboard
* ~/conky/scripts/ColorTempHDD.sh – Harddrive
* ~/conky/scripts/ColorTempGPU.sh – Video Processor
* ~/conky/scripts/ColorTempCPU.sh – CPU
* ~/conky/scripts/ColorTempCore.sh – Core
colorize.sh is here: http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/?page_id=747
Hidden in there are other conky’s that open in a window of their own when I have a need to see the information. Like weather, that can be seen at the bottom of this page which describes the building on the main conky across the top of my screen: http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/?page_id=3651
There is also a TV Schedule, Processes, and a HowLong (since/until) conky.
That’s it.
Have a nice day
Bruce
November 30th, 2009 - 15:55
This is my conky for CotM http://bigrza.deviantart.com/art/xmas-conky-145312462
December 2nd, 2009 - 12:17
Here is a link to my entry. It is a simple config using the cairo lua rings script. It is more form over function but I think that tends to capture the essence of the holidays.
I like how when there is a new email it puts it like a present under the tree. = )
The image can be seen here:
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/8758/xmassshot.png
The conky file is located here:
http://conky.pastebin.com/m408860d
The lua script can be located here:
http://conky.pastebin.com/m3358198
Keep in mind this was designed for a netbook running a 1024×600 resolution.
December 2nd, 2009 - 14:13
@ arzali – LOVE IT!!!!
Well done!
December 3rd, 2009 - 21:12
@arzali – that’ the real xmas conky, as i said on devart, very nice setup
December 9th, 2009 - 17:04
Thank you all!!