Several people have asked me about the system monitor running on the root window of my ThinkPad X60s’ X11 desktop – not many of them had spotted that is was actually just conky with an advanced configuration and a custom wallpaper:
My ~/.conkyrc can be downloaded from here. The panel at the bottom center is from FluxBox, my window manager of choice. The panel to the left is fbpager, a desktop pager for use with FluxBox.
19 Comments to 'System monitoring wallpaper'
December 5, 2007
Hi,
Good job. Where can I find the same wallpaper?
December 5, 2007
You can’t. It’s not online, sorry.
December 13, 2007
Hi,
could you post it somewhere on any server? rapidshare or smth like
December 13, 2007
Sorry, I can’t do that – the graphic which I used for creating the centre wireframe model of the X60s is not my property. I copied the basic structure from the X60s Hardware Maintenance Manual.
April 28, 2008
Hi,
You had a great idea! I made one for my Thinkpad X31. I hope you doesn’t see any problem.
You can see it and my conkyrc (just yours with some basic tweaks) at http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=99471&p=41 (post #1041)
May 2, 2008
hi,
thanks for the idea…
i made a variant for macbook avaible on gnome-look here : http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=80030
thanks again
a+
arpbook
May 2, 2008
hi,
and thanks for your idea… i made a release for macbook that you can find here ( http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=80030 ) on gnome-look.
have a nice conky-life
a+
arp
October 15, 2008
If you need, look here: http://www.pc.ibm.com/de/lenovo/pressephotos/thinkpad_t_serie.html
November 4, 2008
What a fcking great idea …. trying to get a drawing of my toshiba laptop…
November 18, 2008
I stumbled this page. I think this is a good idea but couldn’t find a drawing of my HP Pavilion laptop. I took a picture and after a while with Photoshop I am glad to share with you.
http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Psyfive/?action=view¤t=lappy.jpg
You guys can use and modify and distribute and whatever else all to our hearts content.
Enjoy.
November 18, 2008
Thanks Jon, that’s nice – except it requires a login to Photobucket?
November 19, 2008
I don’t think photobucket requires login. I know imageshack doesn’t so maybe this will be a better link.
http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lappyca1.png
November 19, 2008
Jon,
That’s much better – thanks for posting it.
December 18, 2008
Hi guys,
this is really great idea!!
It’s so great that I had to make a Wallpaper for my T60 ;-)
Hope you like it. Well I think I’ve made a good counterfeit of the orginal he? ^^
It was really hard work, I sat there 6 hours in front of my lcd and now I know every pixel of the picture by name :)
You can find everything (Wallpapers & .conkyrc) for 1680 x 1050
on my Homepage…
See: http://www.astrotux.de/background_conky.php
If you have a Question or something…write me.
So for now I wish you all a Merry Christmas,
Greeting from Germany,
Christoph
December 18, 2008
Hi Christoph, thanks for sharing – looks really good, I think :-)
December 28, 2008
Hey Christoph; great background for the T60. I am going to use it, but you left the .conkyrc file out of the tarball.
Thanks.
Chuck
January 1, 2009
Hi Chuck,
I’m glad you like it.
Well the “.conkyrc” File is in the tarball but it is a hidden file (because it is named .conkyrc not just conkyrc).
You have to enable “Show hidden files” to see it…
Or just type “ls -lah ” in the console to see it…
Have a nice Year of Astronomy 2009 :)
Christoph
November 8, 2009
brix, great work on ur display, truly inspirational!
January 6, 2010
hi, all
you did god work
i have a problem here, conky run, since it’s set to root (own_window=no) then it’s cover apps’ window
when conky updated, active window will blinked
this is run continuously
anybody know the solution?
thank you
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