Conky on LMDE 6

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Is there a way to install Conky manger on LMDE?
I want something like MX Linux, but LMDE been the only distro that been working for me as of late.

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@Moka_Noctis ,
This shows how to install it in Debian

It should be the same in LMDE, which is Debian based.

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Sometimes I load MX on one of my partitions and Conky works nicely. Not sure why Moka can install Debian/LMDE and not MX.

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It has been very odd on that. Not sure

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Thanks you!

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This is how to install the conky manager and conky themes from MX Linux on Linux Mint Debian Edition.
Tested on LMDE 6 (Cinnamon) running on a 64 bit CPU PC.

Steps:

  1. Use Timeshift to back up your system in case you want to undo the install. Start Menu > Administration > Timeshift

  2. Double click the description field of Timeshift beside the restore point and label it “B4 conky installation” or something similar so you know which image to restore if necessary. This is in case something goes wrong with the installation and you want to restore your system to the state it was in before the installation.

  3. Go to Index of /mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-conky-data and donwload mx-conky-data_20211226_all.deb and double click the deb file to install it. This installs the conky themes in /usr/share/mx-conky-data

  4. Go to Index of /mx/repo/pool/main/c/conky-manager and download conky-manager_2.7+dfsg1-6mx19+4_amd64.deb . I am using a 64 bit PC hence I downloaded the amd64.deb version. If you are running different hardware then download the version for your system. Double click the deb file to install it. This is the conky manager.

  5. Optionally, navigate to …/m/mx-conky/ directory in the above link and download mx-conky_24.3_amd64.deb and double click the deb file to install it. This installs an app to customise a conky. I am using a 64 bit PC hence I downloaded the amd64.deb version. If you are running different hardware then download the version for your system. Double click the deb file to install it.

  6. Go to Start Menu > Accessories > Conky Manager and run that.

  7. In the Conky Manager window, click on the Application Settings icon (third from the right, looks like a box with 2 switches)

  8. In the Application Settings pop-up, click the Locations tab, then the Add button, add /usr/share/mx-conky-data and it should appear in the “Additional Locations to search for Conky themes” box. Note that the path text should not contain the “themes” directory at the end. It should end with “mx-conky-data”.

  9. Close Conky Manager and open it again. The themes should then be listed and you can tick the check box of the theme to run.

  10. Not all conky themes work in LMDE but most do. The MX-CoreBlue/conky2core is the one I wanted to run but it does not work in LMDE. If anyone knows how to make it work do reply and tell me how.

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Hi @beng ,
Well done.
I like conky in MX.
I have no idea why CoreBlue/conky2core does not work in Mint, but I imagine it must depend on something that is only in MX. You need to search around in MX and try to see what it requires. Do you have the same DE in MX and LMDE?

Searching might involve looking at the Conky source code

or maybe the source of themes, such as

Regards
Neville

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