While I work in Germany, some of my colleagues work in India, some in Canada.
Is there a software to run in Ubuntu* and compatible environments so that the background screen displays sort of widget or live wallpaper with a configurable world clock?
If it matters, I have a 4K screen.
*I use Xubuntu 18.04 LTS
Conky can be installed using
sudo apt install conky-all
.The following is an example of conky running on Xubuntu 18.04.
As background preparation, I created a blank panel at the top of the screen in addition to my actual panel at the bottom.
I then created
~/.config/conky.conf
as a plain text file with the following content:I also added conky to Xubuntu's autostart menu using Menu > Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart as shown in the image. Using
--pause=30
delays conky from starting immediately by 30s: it is optional but I use it just as a precaution.While I can use just
conky
for conky to run using my~/.config/conky/conky.conf
, usingconky -c ~/.config/conky/conky.conf
has been found effective in J. Doe's case.Notes about the conky.conf
--
--[[
and a closing]]
default_color = 222222
is the text color. Conky doesn't use#222222
, just222222
.gap_x = 1
is the distance from the screen's left edgegap_y = 742
positions the conky window pretty close to the top edge and will need to be adjusted according to your screen's dimensionsminimum_width
should be greater than the width occupied by your contentupdate_interval = 2.0
works for meconky.text
line specifies your contenttime %a %d %b
generates the day of the week, the date and the month of your locale as described inman date
/usr/share/zoneinfo
folder(I can't make the conky background totally transparent!)
If you want to make changes to your
conky.conf
, open your terminal and runconky
. As you edit and save yourconky.conf
, the conky window will disappear and reappear to reflect the changes.