Please VOTE on the Winner of January’s CotM Competition!
Thanks to mobilediesel and wlourf for entering January's Conky of the Month (CotM)!
This month we have a new feature: a public poll, so everyone can vote on who they think deserves to win. Remember, we are looking for three things:
- Visual composition
- Conky innovation
- Adherence to theme
...or maybe just which one you think is the coolest. The poll will be closed at the end of the month, and I'll announce the winner and next month's competition on the 1st of February.
Our two entries this month are:
- mobilediesel, with the "remind" calendar:
"I guess I’ll go ahead and enter this thing. links to screenshots and scripts:[link]
and link to how I set up remind to work with my calendar: [link]
Current screenshot is here: [link]" - wlourf, with the "wheel calendar":
"Hello,
I enter this context too ! I’m beginner with Lua scripts but I like the results we can obtain.
So, my calendar script is located here : [link]
and some screenshots here : [link]"
Please vote for your favourite:
Who do you think should win the January CotM competition, "Calendars"?
- wlourf ("wheel calendar") (81%, 21 Votes)
- mobilediesel (the "remind" calendar) (19%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 26
Loading ...Congratulations, dmillerct, Winner of December’s CotM Competition!
Happy New Year, all!
I can finally announce that the winner of December 2009's Conky of the Month competition is...
(Drum roll, please!)
...dmillerct!
dmillerct won points for his simple and effective configuration, for using the Conky Rings to create colourful pie charts, and for excellent adherence to the "Winter Holidays" theme! Honourable mention goes to arzali, who only just missed out on the top spot.
The winning conky file is located here; the .zip file contains his .conkyrc, rings.lua file and a screenshot for your reference.
A short bio about the author: "I am a 31 year old IT professional. I was born in the US but I hold dual citizenship with the other being of Croatia. I go back there often as possible and plan to retire there. I currently live in southern Connecticut. I am not married but might as well be, I have an incredible girlfriend of 6 years and two cats (one of them is quite fat, like 15kilos fat). My hobbies include Conky and racing sailboats in long island sound. I also like farming, gardening and drinking copious amounts of alcohol with my mates."
He also notes: "I am running this on an EeePC so my resolution is only 1024x600."
Congratulations, dmillerct, and for the rest of you: don't forget to enter January's CotM Competition, Calendars!
The Lines are Now Closed!
Well, that's it! The closing date has passed for the very first Conky of the Month competition!
Thanks to everyone who entered, and the winner will be announced shortly.
In the meantime, I am pleased to announce the theme for next month's competition: CALENDARS! As it's a new year, I'd like to see everyone's take on a Conky calendar. (Thanks to Bruce, editor at Conky Hardcore!, for the suggestion.) The closing date, again, will be the 15th of January. Selection criteria are as in the original CotM post.
Get Conkying!
CotM Update: $50 Amazon Gift Card up for Grabs
If you were in any doubt as to whether you should enter our festive Conky of the Month competition, your decision has now been made for you!
I am pleased to announce that in addition to the fame and glory that comes with being featured on the Conky Blog, we will also be offering a $50 Amazon Gift Card to this month's winner!
So go and get your Conky on...Enter by posting a comment on the original post.
TuxRadar’s Fortnightly Podcast Features Conky
The cover story on this month's Linux Format Magazine is "Make Linux look awesome!" So naturally I had to check it out! The feature explains some of the most common eye candy for Linux, including Compiz/Emerald, Cairo-Dock and some of the more customisable aspects of KDE and Gnome. I thought it was worth pointing out Conky to the author, Graham Morrison, since with the advent of Cairo and imlib2 support, savvy users can create desktops that rival Mac's GeekTool or Windows' Rainmeter.
And as a result, Graham has kindly featured Conky as his "Discovery of the Week" on the TuxRadar podcast!
If you would like to listen, you can download the podcast from the TuxRadar website. Further reading is on the Linux Format website, and if you are in the UK, I highly recommend picking up an issue of the print magazine!
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.
New Blog Feature: Screenshots!
This is just a quickie post to draw your attention to the newest feature of the blog: a compilation of screenshots! I'll be using it to showcase all the screenshots from the blog, all in one place, with reference back to the post from whence they came.
I hope that you will find the screenshot page to be a bit of inspiration!
To get there, simply click on the "Screenshots" button at the top of the page.
Happy Conkying!
Conky 1.7.2 Released!
As of Monday, Conky 1.7.2 has been officially released!
You can get the files for this release in the usual spot, and there's a feature tour over on the Wiki.
Just a small taster of the new features:
- Built in Lua bindings for Cairo and Imlib2, which allows you to draw directly to Conky's window using Cairo and/or Imlib2.
- Added own_window_type panel.
- $weather: download, parse and display METAR data.
- $desktop, $desktop_number and $desktop_name: current desktop number and name, total number of available desktops.
Have a go and let us know what you think!
Welcome to the new blog!
Welcome to the brand new Official Conky Blog. Stay tuned for the latest development updates, features, and sneak peeks!
For the time being, please use the links on this page to find all the Conky info you desire.