Best way to install Conky for KDE D460nized

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Hi Everyone,

What is the best way to install & get Conky working with Garuda? I've never worked with it before & am kind of confused. I originally installed it with:

pacman -S conky conky-manager

but then read through some things in the Forum, & ended up trying to compile conky-lua-nv via:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/conky-lua-nv.git.

After doing that, it said that the regular conky package was in conflict, so I just let it remove that one. There is a .conky folder in my home directory, and the conky.desktop file is in /etc/xdg/autostart.

Now I'm unsure what to do from here. I am using the KDE Dr460nized version, & have read that Conky can be tricky to get working right with Plasma. What's the best way to go about doing everything?

garuda-inxi
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Hi,

First of all, you have to edit PKGBUILD file in the folder where you downloaded the conky-lua-nv source, and edit line

MAINTAINER_MODE=ON

to

MAINTAINER_MODE=OFF

and save and exit.

Now, in the same folder, open terminal and run

makepkg -rsf

This should take some time and make a tarball called conky-lua-nv-.... where .... would be the version ( it is conky-lua-nv-1.15.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst for me right now).

So, now, all you have to do is

sudo pacman -U conky-lua-nv-1.15.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

or replace the name with exact version.

Now you have conky-lua-nv installed.
What do you want to do now? I mean which theme?

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Hey there :slight_smile:

Okay, I restored a snapshot back to before compiling conky-lua-nv, so I could "start over" so to speak.

This is the PKGBUILD file:

# Maintainer: Spyros Stathopoulos <foucault.online[at]gmail[dot]com>
# Contributor: Jon Wilson <bugs@pandorica.net>
# Contributor: Andrwe Lord Weber <lord-weber-andrwe [at] andrwe [dot] org>
# Contributor: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: James Rayner <james@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Partha Chowdhury <kira.laucas@gmail.com>

pkgname=conky-lua-nv
_pkgname=conky
pkgver=1.15.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An advanced system monitor for X based on torsmo with lua and nvidia enabled"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky"
license=('GPL' 'BSD')
replaces=('torsmo' 'conky')
conflicts=('conky')
provides=('conky' 'conky-lua')
depends=(
  'glibc' 'glib2' 'lua' 'wireless_tools' 'libxdamage' 'libxinerama' 'libxft' 'imlib2'
  'libxml2' 'libpulse' 'libxnvctrl' 'systemd-libs' 'ncurses' 'curl'
  libncursesw.so libXNVCtrl.so libsystemd.so libpulse.so libcurl.so
)
makedepends=('cmake' 'docbook2x' 'docbook-xsl' 'man-db' 'git' 'catch2'
             'pandoc' 'python-yaml' 'python-jinja')
optdepends=('nvidia: for GT4xx and newer GPUs',
  'nvidia-340xx: for G8x, G9x, GT2xx GPUS',
  'nvidia-304xx: for GeForce 6/7 GPUs')
source=("https://github.com/brndnmtthws/${_pkgname}/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
sha1sums=('75ae3d65dbe155219cbfdd78b52e3c3e8615285b')
options=('!strip' 'debug')
install='conky-lua-nv.install'

prepare() {
  # disable HSV gradients for now
  cd ${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}
  rm -r tests/catch2
  ln -s /usr/include/catch2 tests
}

build() {
  cd ${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}

  cmake \
    -B build \
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -D CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -ffat-lto-objects" \
    -D MAINTAINER_MODE=ON \
    -D BUILD_DOCS=ON \
    -D BUILD_IMLIB2=ON \
    -D BUILD_EXTRAS=ON \
    -D BUILD_LUA_RSVG=ON \
    -D BUILD_LUA_CAIRO=ON \
    -D BUILD_LUA_IMLIB2=ON \
    -D BUILD_WLAN=ON \
    -D BUILD_XDBE=ON \
    -D BUILD_XSHAPE=ON \
    -D BUILD_HSV_GRADIENT=ON \
    -D BUILD_IMLIB2=ON \
    -D BUILD_CURL=ON \
    -D BUILD_RSS=ON \
    -D BUILD_NVIDIA=ON \
    -D BUILD_WEATHER_METAR=ON \
    -D BUILD_PULSEAUDIO=ON \
    -D BUILD_JOURNAL=ON \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -Wno-dev \
    -S .

  make -C build
}

package() {
  cd ${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}
  make -C build DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
  install -D -m644 COPYING -t ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
  install -D -m644 build/extras/vim/syntax/conkyrc.vim -t "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/conkyrc.vim
  install -D -m644 extras/vim/ftdetect/conkyrc.vim -t "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/conkyrc.vim
}

# vim:ts=2:et:sw=2

Should I recompile it again to be able to see the MAINTAINER_MODE=ON part? My guess is that wouldn't make sense, but just not seeing it in here. I got it from the AUR

[EDIT]: I'm a moron, lol... just saw it :woman_facepalming: :sweat_smile:

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Okay, well, before I go trying to pick themes, what should I be doing next?

I still can't find the conky.conf file anywhere.

If I run conky-manager, it looks like there are some theme type entries in there. Simply checking the boxes next to them doesn't result in all of them showing up on the desktop, to be edited further or otherwise.
And of the ones that do, there is often this screen tearing effect within the widget display.

Should I also install conky-cairo?

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Nothing…
Just pick up the theme and follow their guide

Nope

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Ended up just trying to follow a ChrisTitus video where he shows how to edit a script he downloaded.

Since I couldn't figure out how the conky-lua-nv was working, I just started over & dealt straight with Conky. No conky-manager or anything else.

Once I got the script modified the way I wanted as far as colors & things like that, I put it into the ~/.conky folder. Then did his suggestion to make a symbolic link for it in /etc/profile.d to have it run on startup. conky.desktop was already in /etc/xdg/autostart, and it seemed to be loading up on startup just fine like that before doing the sym link. But I guess that covers it in some additional way. I'm not sure I fully understand the implications of adding the sym link.

But for now, it's working, Lol <: D

As far as other places to find more conky scripts/configs, a lot of people have suggested DeviantArt... which has tons of amazing looking ones. But now everything is paywalled, it's not the site I remember browsing to for wallpapers 20+yrs ago, lol :joy:
Aside from r/conkyporn, are there any other good places anyone might recommend?