Display System information on desktop

Do you want to display system information on desktop without disturbing regular work ?

here is the package which is help to do that.

conky

1. install conky
apt-get install conky-all

2. install conky-manager to make changes from GUI.

• Add the necessary repository with the command sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa
• Update apt with the command sudo apt-get update
• Install Conky Manager by issuing the command sudo apt-get install conky-manager

3. open conky-manager 
     Open terminal and type
     $ conky-manager

4. Select any option which you want to add on desktop

5. To add information like ipaddress and macid 

The configuration files are located into .conky folder into the users home directory

 

~/.conky/Green Apple Desktop/conky_seamod

# IP information

${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}

${addr wlan0}

${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}IP ADDRESS

${addr eth1}

${else}

Network disconnected

${endif}${endif}

Mac ID

# Mac ID information

${exec ifconfig eth1 | grep -i addr | grep -i HWaddr | awk '{print$5}'}

 

This will responsible to display IP and macid information in theme

You can also remove the existing not used information from screen by removing it from the file.

6. Another configuration files are located at, 

  ~/.config/conky-manager.json

7. To add it on startup

 

~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Exec=sh "/home/purval/.conky/conky-startup.sh"

Hidden=false

NoDisplay=false

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

Name[en_IN]=Conky

Name=Conky

Comment[en_IN]=

Comment=

 

You can also do this from conky-manager GUI
 

Set default image viewer in wine.

Set picassa photo viewer as default app for image

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You can use the command mimeopen, in a terminal go to the folder where you have some pictures with extensions, you should do it for every extension. Suppose for picture named image.jpg. Run the command:

mimeopen -d image.jpg 

You will get a popup menu, where you can see some options, here is sample of my apps:

If mimeopen package not exists then you can install:

libfile-mimeinfo-perl

$ mimeopen -d e.jpg 
Please choose a default application for files of type image/jpeg

    1) Wine Internet Explorer  (wine-extension-jpe)
    2) Wine Internet Explorer  (wine-extension-jfif)
    3) gThumb  (gthumb)
    4) Pinta  (pinta)
    5) Image Viewer  (gpicview)
    6) Shutter  (shutter)
    7) Firefox Web Browser  (firefox)
    8) Shotwell Viewer  (shotwell-viewer)
    9) GIMP Image Editor  (gimp)
    10) Other...

AS you can notice you could see some wine apps so if you find picasa choose it, else choose other(10) and type the command that runs your picasa. It looks like

WINEPREFIX=~/.purval WINE=/opt/wine-staging/bin/wine /opt/wine-staging/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/myapps/foo.exe

This Configuration files are located at: /usr/share/mime/image