Add a Conky to show system info on the desktop  This conky is the basic one. there are a lot more out there to be googled. My calendar never displayed properly and I had no time to find out why. Now I don't even install it cos I'm hardly at the desktop to see it. Conky's are very configurable, if you look up how to, by editing the conkyrc file. Add the ppa to software sources, in terminal:
then make a dir called Conky in home/user and download and place the files .conkyrc and .conky-cal there. [make sure to rename them with a “.” infront and make them executable -RMB properties >permissions] then download and place my bash script .conky-startup.sh in ~/ (/home/your_username) [also rename with a “.” infront and make it executable too] then go to settings>settings manager, and click on session and startup, >application autostart and click add then enter name Conky, and this command ~/.conky-startup.sh You may need to change the network name wlan0 or eth1 etc in .conkyrc for conky to pick up your wireless info. Setting the desktop background to work with Conky On my Xubuntu Conky didn't show itself 'transparent' but had a background of the blue Xubuntu desktop. It was also not refreshing itself but writing over itself all the time and making a mess of over-written data. I found out that if I RMB on the desktop and look at the applications menu, Conky then fits itself properly, refreshes and shows my background. |