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J-Mello
Asked: 2018-10-01 20:44:05 +0800 CST

Conky for Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.1 LTS

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I've had a downgrade on conky to fix the bugs.However,even with a 1.9.0-4 version it don't works as I expected.When I download some skins(the most of them) they don't appear on my desktop,have a bug when appear or even Conky Manager don't recognize them!I need to know how to fix this issue cause Conky is the one of the some reasons that I moved to Ubuntu.These are all skins that I want to download by now: (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1189601/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1260394/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1210661/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1006522/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1006521/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1110721/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1111160/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1111468/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1006024/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1111536/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1006398/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1006133/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1006266/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1006348/) (https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1260394/)

conky lts budgie 18.04

1 Answers

  1. As far I can understand from Conky Manager's source code it can install special prepared theme pack files (they are named *.cmtp.7z).

    You can install such themes by pressing the corresponding button "Import Theme Pack (*.cmtp.7z)" on Conky Manager panel:

    Import Theme Pack (*.cmtp.7z) button location

    So you need to download such file from somewhere. I have tested theme named Arch Gotham from OpenDesktop and it installs normally on my Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS (I do not have Budgie, desktop is not a problem in current case) with conky-all and conky-manager from our previous Q&A.

    Other way to install is to download *.cmtp.7z file, then drag it and drop it to the Conky Manager window.

    As the result you will get the window shown below

    Themes imported successfully

    and theme/widget will be added to the list and may be shown on desktop (if enabled):

    AMD BIOS - Arch Gotham is shown on desktop

    Also you can check big theme collection Jesse_Supreme_conkys.cmtp.7z from Jesse Avalos.

    Notes:
    1. pre-installed themes are also in the *.cmtp.7z format (their archive is placed in /usr/share/conky-manager/themepacks/default-themes-2.1.cmtp.7z).
    2. Conky Manager does not help to install themes from other archive types, but will show location of their conkyrc- and *.cmtheme-files. You should use some manual methods to install such themes (simple copy of contents to ~/.conky may work).

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