Conky “no config file found”

[zh]

Conky “no config file found”

Does anyone have any experience with installing cunky on bsd? Because I installed mine from port with cd /usr/ports/sysutils/conky/ && make install clean twice and to no effect. If I type in conky all I get is

Conky: no readable personal or system-wide config  file found

Also there is nothing in /usr/local/share/ where the conky config files should be located.

Any clue to what's going on?

 

[chatwizrd]

Config files are usually located in /usr/local/etc

 

[zh]

Well it's no there either

 

[zh]

Anyone? I'm quite new to BSD so sorry if this is a silly question.

 

[bbzz]

Anything in manpages? What about $HOME/.conkyrc or $HOME/.config?

 

[jmccue]

Hi,

Usually one would create their own config as ~/.conkyrc. But an example should exist, see /usr/local/share/examples/conky/conkyrc.sample. Also a google search comes up with plenty of examples

John

 

[zh]

Thanks, but how do I specify what file conky should use.
I keep getting the

Conky: no readable personal or system-wide config file found

error.

 

[bbzz]

Anything in manpages?

What he said.

 

[fonz]

Thanks, but how do i specify what file conky should use.
[corrected for weird spacing]

As said, Conky expects a config file at ~/.conkyrc. An example config file can be found at /usr/local/share/examples/conky/conkyrc.sample. Therefore, do % cp /usr/local/share/examples/conky/conkyrc.sample ~/.conkyrc and edit ~/.conkyrc to your liking. Or if you find a config file you like somewhere on the Internet (there are several out there), save it as ~/.conkyrc.

To start Conky with a specific config file, use % conky -c [FILE]/path/to/configfile[/FILE]

Hope this helps,

Fonz

 

[zh]

As said, Conky expects a config file at ~/.conkyrc. An example config file can be found at /usr/local/share/examples/conky/conkyrc.sample. Therefore, do % cp /usr/local/share/examples/conky/conkyrc.sample ~/.conkyrc and edit ~/.conkyrc to your liking. Or if you find a config file you like somewhere on the Internet (there are several out there), save it as ~/.conkyrc.

To start Conky with a specific config file, use % conky -c [FILE]/path/to/configfile[/FILE]

Hope this helps,

Fonz

Well don't I feel silly, that was almost too easy =)

Thank you sir. And everyone else who helped.