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MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:11 am
by bidral
One of my friend want to use LinuxMint xfce. But she likes MX Linux's conky of my computer. Now she want the Conky with manager in her system Is it possible?
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:08 am
by fehlix
bidral wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:11 am
One of my friend want to use LinuxMint xfce. But she likes MX Linux's conky of my computer. Now she want the Conky with manager in her system Is it possible?
Probably yes. Best try it out, and let us know what's missing.
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:38 am
by Stevo
LMDE (based on Debian instead of Ubuntu) is more likely to be compatible, though IDK if that has an XFCE edition.
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:33 am
by siamhie
Stevo wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:38 am
LMDE (based on Debian instead of Ubuntu) is more likely to be compatible, though IDK if that has an XFCE edition.
LMDE uses Cinnamon for it's desktop but XFCE can be installed.
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 12:49 pm
by bidral
Please tell me how to install mxlinux xfce conky on a linuxmint xfce machine?
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 12:51 pm
by aika
bidral wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:11 am... she want the Conky with manager in her system Is it possible?
conky-manager is also available in the Mint system sources:
If the conky version is compatible with the mx-conky-script in
MX-home/user/.conky/
you can simply copy your MX-script-folder to
Mint-home/user/.conky/
Then select the copied script folder in Mint using conky manager.
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:46 pm
by asqwerth
You will also have to check to see if the conky manager in Mint is the original one that cannot read the lua format style of conkies [all of MX's conkies are lua format], or if Mint's conky manager package is based on the newer fork Conky Manager 2, which MX is using.
If Mint's CM is the original one, it may not be able to detect any of the MX conkies at all.
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 2:15 pm
by Stevo
I would download and install the mx-conky and mx-conky-data debs in Mint using their deb installer, probably gdebi.
https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-conky/
https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-conky-data/
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 3:12 am
by bidral
Oh, that's good. I installed both of them. Found that 'Lua' is not loading. I copied .conky folder from mx machine into mint machine. But Conky-manager showing only few conky style.
Re: MX Linux's Conky in LinuxMint xfce
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 8:17 am
by Stevo
Maybe also try installing our patched conky manager deb, then?
https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/c/conky-manager/
You want the "+4" version deb for MX 23/Bookworm.