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: http://conky.sf.net/ Source0: http://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.