{"id":18595,"date":"2020-07-31T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=18595"},"modified":"2025-04-22T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:39:04","slug":"install-conky-manager-ubuntu-20-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/install-conky-manager-ubuntu-20-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Conky Manager 2 in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This simple tutorial shows how to install Conky Manager 2, the graphical front-end for Conky system monitor, in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 25.04<\/p>\n

Conky<\/a> is a light-weight system monitor for Linux Xorg, that displays CPU, GPU, and disk usage, network speed, weather, date and time and other information on desktop as widget.<\/p>\n

And Conky Manager is a graphical tool that manages Conky config files. It provides options to start\/stop, browse and edit Conky themes installed on the system.<\/p>\n

The software was originally developed by by teejee2008 (Tony George), but not been updated for quite a few years. And Conky Manager 2<\/a> takes the job to make it work on recent Linux systems with updated Conky versions support.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Install Conky Manager 2 Ubuntu via PPA:<\/h3>\n

For those still using conky widget to monitor CPU\/RAM, network usage, and weather information, I’ve create an unofficial PPA<\/a> contains the most recent packages for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04, with both 64-bit and arm64\/armhf OS types support.<\/p>\n

1.)<\/b> First, open terminal by either pressing Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard, or searching from ‘Activities’ overview screen. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/conkymanager2<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
2.)<\/b> Then install Conky Manager2 and conky as dependency library via command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install conky-manager2<\/pre>\n
NOTE: Linux Mint needs to manually update cache via sudo apt update<\/code> command first.<\/i><\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
Start and use Conky Manager 2:<\/h3>\n
Once installed, search for and launch Conky Manager app from the activities overview screen (or from start menu depends on your DE).<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
The app comes with some default themes, though may not well configured for your desktop. Tick or un-tick any item in the list will start or stop conky with that theme, though you may also use the tool bar buttons.<\/p>\n
And, you can use the “spanner<\/b>” icon to config theme options, including screen location, size, background transparency. Advanced users may also click on the ‘pencil<\/b>‘ icon to edit it via configuration file.<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
There are also tons of Conky themes<\/a> on the web. You can download one, and install it easily by clicking the second folder icon (with a little emblem).<\/p>\n
Uninstall Conky, Conky Manager:<\/h4>\n
For any reason, you can easily remove the Ubuntu PPA by running the command below in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/conkymanager2<\/pre>\n
If you want to remove Conky as well as Conky manager run command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt remove --autoremove conky conky-manager2<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This simple tutorial shows how to install Conky Manager 2, the graphical front-end for Conky system monitor, in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 25.04 Conky is a light-weight system monitor for Linux Xorg, that displays CPU, GPU, and disk usage, network speed, weather, date and time and other information on desktop as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1973],"class_list":["post-18595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-conky-manager"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}