We are creating a series of YouTube videos under the “edu-“ label to guide users through the migration from ArcoLinux to Arch Linux. These tutorials aim to make the transition process smoother by explaining each step clearly and providing practical examples. Whether you’re switching to gain more control or to learn vanilla Arch, our edu- videos are here to support your journey.
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The topic of the video is how to get the conkies in on Arch Linux but since I jumped into a working system of Arch Linux Xfce some of the things were already installed and others not. ArcoLinux has evolved since the last time I was on this virtualbox and we need to...
Conkyzen (am-conkyzen - application where you can select all the conkies), the conkies (arcolinux-conky-collection-git) and the conky application (conky-lua-archers) are already installed on your system. Plasma has its own widgets. But if you want to have your...
Starting a conky is a bit more tricky on Gnome. We will show you what stepst to take in Gnome. Normally you would look into gnome-tweak-tool and add the application in Startup Application. We will add conkyzen.desktop from /usr/share/applications to...
Conky's are installed via the ArcoLinux repo packages in the scripts but you need to select it with conkyzen. We show you how to start a conky. It is the same as on ArcoLinux. So not much to tell you here. Next article we will show you how to make sure the conky...
In the video I talk a great length how to analyze how the conky's in ArcoLinux work. We figure out what application is responsible for loading the conky's. am-conky-session Then we add it to the startup list.
It all boils down to ONE SETTING. And loosing some comfort and gaining a conky. We need to set "Show Desktop Icons" OFF. That is the best and easiest solution. Then you start conkyzen and choose your conky. Use CTRL + ALT + TAB to shut down the xserver and...
We show you where you can normally set any application to autostart in Budgie. Use the gnome-tweak-tool. But this tool does not provide help for commands just for .desktop files from /usr/share/application so we need to do a work around. We show you the...
There are conky's and desklets in Cinnamon. Let us check out the difference. You can find conkyzen in your menu and move it to the favorites panel. Two things to remember am-conkyzen is our overview of all conky's am-conky-session will run the conky saved in the last...
Conky is a free software system monitor. It is available for Linux. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power,...
We use the scripts to install all the necessary ArcoLinux packages to get these conky's in and then we need to do some manual copy/paste work. We need to copy/paste all the conky's from the /etc/xdg/conky folder to our own in ~/.config/conky. Then we can select the...