DSL (Damn Small Linux) System stats feature?

Amalgam

I have been using DSL (Damn Small Linux) (http://damnsmalllinux.org/) for a few days now, is it possible to get Ubuntu to display System stats/uptime/data flow in the same way that DSL does?

I really love that feature of DSL. I have attached a desktop image with the feature I am talking about, in the upper right corner.

Attached as: DSL Linux Desktop Stats.jpg

PogMoThoin

Yes, its called Conky, do a google search with your version of Ubuntu and You should find guides, or check Ubuntu forum

Amalgam

Many thanks, moving closer to perfection, with this..

An Fear Aniar

Here's the latest how-to for setting up Conky in Ubuntu.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6365702

I used the conky_colors package from gnome-look which looks really nice:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/CONKY-colors?content=92328

This is my Conky here:



I've also attached my .conkyrc if it helps. I don't know if you'll be able to get the weather thing going though, the scripts are in a .deb file.


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Amalgam

That looks great An Fear Aniar, I'll rustle up my own version in the small hours.

Kinetic^

Conky rocks tbh.A guy called "Bruce M." has some really good configs on ubuntu forums. I'll post links when I'm at home later.

Kinetic^

Here is a very good guide for setting it up.

Here's one of his config's and below is what I've done with it on my media server.