Conky not working properly in fluxbox

[harry2006]

Hi All,m kinda new to fluxbox...not able to figure out how to install conky,,,i dont want to keep on installing thing one after another...into Slit...how to get these kinda of conky,,see the screenshot here
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/9...eenshotou2.png
see in the left side of the image..is it conky or something else??? m really interested to have that nice trasnparent display on my desktop...
also have a look here
http://www.open-moments.com/images/Aug08-Screenshot.png
see in the right bottom of the image....
Plz help...thanx a lot for ur vauable time.....

[deathadder]

Hi,

Yep that's conky in both of those screen shots, the open-moments.com one, is actually mine. conky uses a config file in your home directory to set the layout and position. I've attached mine, the same as in the screenshot, so you can have a look and play around with it.

If you download my conkyrc file, you'll have to rename it to .conkyrc and put it in your /home...easy enough to do with:

mv conkyrc.txt ~/.conkyrc

Unfortinuately my conkyrc isn't commented at all, and I can't really remember what the options do. If you give me some time, I'll go through and comment what I can for you. Otherwise you might be able to find what you want from the conky website. You'll have to remove the line that looks like this:

gMail - ${execi 300 python ~/bin/gmail.py}

As that runs a python script to check my gMail, if you want I can share that script too.

Have a read of this so you can get conky to start when you log into Fluxbox...http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Autostart_Programs#Fluxbox

Its been a long time since I've used Fluxbox, but isn't the Slit the bar at the bottom that has minimised apps in it? :S

[EDIT]
Fixed spell...and added a commented conky config, not complete comments, but see http://conky.sourceforge.net/documentation.html for anything your not sure off, or ask here