This has always been a question to have a quality conky installation on your desktop supporting images and other goodies.
To get it, you have to create your own rpm from the latest source.
Install dependencies:
sudo yum -y install bmpx-devel libXft-devel libXt-devel libXdamage-devel libXext-devel audacious-devel dbus-glib-devel libXNVCtrl-devel curl-devel wireless-tools-devel tolua++-devel
bmpx will not work, however …
Get conky from the home web site. Get my spec file and place to ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/conky.spec
%bcond_without audacious
%bcond_with moc
%bcond_without mpd
%bcond_with nvidia
%bcond_without rss
%bcond_without ibm
%bcond_without wlan
Name: conky
Version: 1.7.2
Release: 1%{?dist}_alec
Summary: A system monitor for X
Group: User Interface/X
License: GPLv3+
URL: //conky.sf.net/
Source0: //downloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
BuildRequires: libXft-devel
BuildRequires: libXt-devel
BuildRequires: libXdamage-devel
BuildRequires: libXext-devel
BuildRequires: bmpx-devel
%if %{with audacious}
BuildRequires: audacious-devel
BuildRequires: dbus-glib-devel
%endif
%{?with_nvidia:BuildRequires: libXNVCtrl-devel}
%{?with_rss:BuildRequires: curl-devel}
%{?with_wlan:BuildRequires: wireless-tools-devel}
%description
A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. but more kickass.
It just keeps on given’er. Yeah.
%prep
%setup -q
for i in AUTHORS; do
iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf8 -o ${i}{_,} && touch -r ${i}{,_} && mv -f ${i}{_,}
done
%build
%configure \
–enable-audacious=yes \
–enable-ibm \
–enable-iostats \
–enable-curl \
–enable-eve \
–enable-rss \
–enable-weather-metar \
–enable-weather-xoap \
–enable-imlib2 \
–enable-lua-imlib2 \
–enable-lua \
–enable-lua-cairo \
–enable-wlan \
–enable-nvidia \
;
make %{?_smp_mflags}
%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING TODO README NEWS extras/* doc/docs.html
%dir %{_sysconfdir}/conky
%config %{_sysconfdir}/conky/conky.conf
%{_bindir}/*
%{_mandir}/man1/*
/etc/conky/conky_no_x11.conf
/usr/lib64/conky/libcairo.a
/usr/lib64/conky/libcairo.la
/usr/lib64/conky/libcairo.so
/usr/lib64/conky/libcairo.so.0
/usr/lib64/conky/libcairo.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/conky/libimlib2.a
/usr/lib64/conky/libimlib2.la
/usr/lib64/conky/libimlib2.so
/usr/lib64/conky/libimlib2.so.0
/usr/lib64/conky/libimlib2.so.0.0.0
I do not guarantee that the below and the above will work for you. You should watch the console output of everything you type in.
Build and install the rpm:
sudo rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/conky.spec sudo yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/conky-1.7.2-1.fc11_alec.x86_64.rpm
Some nice urls related to conky functions:
As a result, I get something like the below (still under construction but rss, weather and images support is already there):
conky on Fedora
More configs, scripts and tricks to follow. Beware, conky is very addictive… I will open registration in my blog so that people can post comments and/or ask questions, everybody is welcome.