Show us your conky

Sector11 · 2026-09-13 20:15:27

PackRat wrote:

Döbbie03 wrote:
MarkW wrote:
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.

unklar · 2026-09-14 09:29:53

^^^Heee... BINGO you 'old fox'!

It's because of the font! I spent hours using other people's time and changed the settings what felt like 100 times.

I didn't have the typo with 'xftfont...' here.

Even in your 'old age', you are and will remain El Conkystador! Thank you my friend.

Last edited by unklar (2026-09-14 09:30:41)

Sector11 · Yesterday 16:04:52

unklar wrote:

^^^Heee... BINGO you 'old fox'!
{snip}
I didn't have the typo with 'xftfont...' here.
Even in your 'old age', you are and will remain El Conkystador! Thank you my friend.

We toss things around enough, we usually find that "something" that caused the OOPS!

My OOPS! wasn't the same as your OOPS! but it did lead to finding it.

Today’s lesson brought to you by wrote:

Spaces Are Important!
And Helping Someone Because You can, Even More So!

and also The TpyoKnig's stubbornness.

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