Posts: 34
koolstofje
Joined: 07 Nov 2015
#1
Hello dear,
MX14.4 like very good, I miss two things..

How do I get my conky in mx14.4 ?
Where is Control center? I would like shortcuts to my program's..


Who can help .. ?

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Posts: 452
Jerry
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
#2
First: before you start setting up MX-14.4, are you aware that the new MX-15 has just been released?

mx-15-released-t6101.html

Second: antiX MX is quite a bit different than the other antiX flavors, and uses Xfce's Settings Manager (and to a certain extent MX Tools) instead of the Control Center. There is an icon for that on the default panel, and another one at the top of the Start menu.

Third: again, antiX MX is different here in that it does not come with a Conky version already defined. To get Conky, follow the basic directions in the Users Manual (Alt-F1, then use Ctrl-F to find them) and
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://mepiscommunity.org/wiki/antix-faqs-applications/guide-conky"
linktext was:"the modified guide in the Wiki"
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Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#3
.conkyrc is a hidden file, Ctrl+h will show it.
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Jerry
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
#4
Shay wrote:.conkyrc is a hidden file, Ctrl+h will show it.
Only after conky has been installed, right? MX Linux does not come with conky installed by default, so that file is not there.
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#5
I cheated.
Booted ti AntiX-15
Opened File
Ctrl+h
found .conkyrc and copied to usb stick.
MX-15
Inserted stick
Open file manager
R-clicked the USB stick and mounted it.
Open stick
Ctrl+h and drug .conkyrc to my name in file manager

Open Synaptic Package manager
Toward top right is search
[type in] conky and click ok
Right click conky_all and select to install, follow the prompts to install it.
When done
Hit home button and type in conky
select the run conky and it will sart up.
I do NOT have conky set up to start automatically on this usb stick.
That is the basic, need to do more study and testing myself.
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#6
Happy dance.

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Posts: 1,444
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#7
congratulations for working it out.

for future reference, a caution:
conky v1.10 (currently in debian testing repository) introduces a new Lua-based conkyrc configuration format.
Idunno what great improvements the newer conky version might bring (nothing i need, eh); not interested in
dealing with a new config format/syntax, so I'll pin the older version to prevent updates.
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eugen-b
Joined: 23 Aug 2015
#8
What is missing on antiX conkyrc is a sensors monitor. The easiest variable for it is {hwmon temp 2}°C. Instead of 2 there might be 0 or 1 or ...
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#9
If it even has sensors that can be read. This laptop does not.