#2761 Today 20:15:27

Sector11

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From: Upstairs

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 8,373

Re: Show us your conky

Maybe a silly question, but has anyone ever tried to make a taskar and system tray with Conky?  Would that even be feasible?

You can do it but I doubt you'd achieve much. I find conky rather fragile and awkward to use. Polybar or Lemonbar would be better.

@Dobbie03; you are correct; conky is not the application for a taskbar.

Polybar works well with X11.

Waybar, and Yambar for Wayland - although I don't know how well their system trays are working. Yambar also works in X11.

For X11 tint2 with some executors works well, but can get resource hungry.

Yeah, conky is a system monitor.  Not a launch/start bar. Although mepeachy and falldown had a really good thing going at one time with interactive conkys that might have been the start of something that could have developed into a "task bar"

Best to use a tool made for the job.

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