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- gnome shell environment with weather & top icons extensions.
- Dock - Plank
- Conky Manger
Moka Icons:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:moka/moka-icon-theme
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install moka-icon-theme
I use Timeshift (system-wide minus $HOME) and Back in Time ($Home only) in concert. Works great.
thanks! i downloaded the conky manager with the themepack along, it has a lot you just have to play around because some look really outdated. the one im using is LSD http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html scroll to the bottom and you should see the theme pack
conky is just a script. Get the conky manager here. http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
With the simple commands.
To get more Theme. Just download the Theme package on the same page. Use the Conky Manger to install that Theme package.
Now you have clocks
You can remove kernels from the Update Manger. Start update manager, and from the menu, select View=>Linux Kernels
Select the kernel you want to remove, and hit the remove button.
You can also install UKUU - this is really easy to use to add and remove kernels.
However, at the moment, I think there might be an issue with some dependencies and ukuu...4.16.3 was the last kernel I installed, the newer ones are having problems.
But if you just need to remove kernels, UKUU is great.
Your applications and data will more than likely be fine after an upgrade, but you can never take too many precautions.
I would recommend making a backup of your home folder, that way if something goes awry you can perform clean install and keep all of your data and application preferences.
I would also suggest using timeshift to backup your file system, so that way if you don’t like 18.04 for whatever reason you have the option to go back. (Timeshift, however, will not backup your home folder. You should do that separately.)
Why not just use Timeshift
http://www.teejeetech.in/2017/01/timeshift-v171.html?m=1
It's been great for me for a couple years, allows scheduling snapshots for every boot, daily, weekly, monthly & how many & how long to retain.
You can also use it to do rsync backups & restores of other file systems.
Try Papirus Theme with Mint-Y Dark. It's a quick (and easy) way to customize your system.
Also, check out conky with Conky Manager for more customization.
fyi, while its already been explained about the in-place upgrade, this is how you would/could do it without.
theres a great tool called aptik http://www.teejeetech.in/p/aptik.html which is made by the same guy who makes the timeshift system restore utility.
aptik amongst other things allows you to create a text file backup of your ppa list, and your software list. these are the two things that basically catalog everything you have installed.
so you make ppa and software list backups with aptic. You do your fresh install of mint (being careful NOT to format the home directory), and then once mint is install, install aptik, and restore your ppa and software lists.
ive done this a few times and been back up and running like nothing happened in under an hour.
(of course, there are some risks associated with linking a home directory for a prior version to a new one, but ive not had an issue between minor versions 18.2 to 18.3 etc.. thats not to say there wouldnt be issues between major versions)
but its worth installing aptik and backing up your ppa list and software list from time to time anwyay
Conky is easy with the Conky Manager.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
After you install the Theme Packs. It's easy to change and edit Conky. Can get another Conky Theme on-line up and running in no time.
Your resolution problem. Have you install your graphic card drivers?
Use clonezilla to make a whole image. Alternatively, if you don't need your /home, you can back up everything else with TimeShift (I store everything on Dropbox, so this works perfectly for me): http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html
Ubuntu has the hardware LTSenablementstack. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack with every point release Ubuntu gets a new kernel. Also there is the Ubuntu kernel update utility. http://www.teejeetech.in/p/ukuu-kernel-upgrade-utility.html
I used ukuu kernel update utility. Only had good experiences with it. You can install and remove your kernels easily from the GUI.
Also, the newer kernels after 4.15 break Virtualbox from my experience.
Timeshift runs daily, weekly, monthly - That covers me from the "oops i shouldnt have pushed that button" type of situations
Aptik - if and when i remember to back up my PPA list http://www.teejeetech.in/p/aptik.html
Software list - this is where theres an issue because Mint Backup is only recognising whatever was installed since upgrading to 18.3 and anything from the 18.2 days is not on the list. Aptik also does software backups but that includes everything because it cant work out what was installed with the distro.
all my documents etc are backed up to cloud anyway.
Yes, if you're not happy with mint 18.2 you can restore the previous backup done with timeshift.
To install timeshift:
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install timeshift
look for a tool named timeshift it works similar to system restore points on windows and is very easy to use with gui and everything. http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html install timeshift, make a restore point, keep the data, reinstall xubuntu, install timeshift, restore the restore point.
I was done with Microsoft Windows 12+ years ago. So welcome aboard. If you like Rainmeter then you will like Conky. Easy to use the Conky Manger at first and use the Theme package. http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Then just look for more custom themes. There are plenty out there.
http://devmadness.com/os-software/conky-themes-scripts-configs/
Conky gets you the weather / semi transparent things on the desktop.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
^ that is a real easy & quick way of messing with Conky and there are some predefined setups in there too. Scroll to the bottom for the extra theme packs.
It's possible to use the programming language Lua to extend things further. Here's an example from the Arch wiki. For the novice user there's also Conky Manager which comes with a load of different ones built in.
I followed these instructions and it works fine now. During set up, I had to use a mouse to get around the system. I also added ukuu (same developer who wrote Timeshift) to update the kernel to the most recent mainline version, rather than update the kernel manually as described in this article. After the teething problems, it seems to all be good with Ubuntu 18.04.
TimeShift is an excellent tool for backing things up. You can create a backup on external drive and it also supports creating backup of bootloaders, so if anything goes wrong you can just restore your computer. You can find more details on http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html . Also there's an good article on https://itsfoss.com/backup-restore-linux-timeshift/
This doesn't really comment on your proposed workflow, but your objective can be achieved easily using the program Aptik. This allows you to move all your personal files, programs and settings onto a new computer upon which you have made a fresh default install.
Try Conky Manager if you are new to conky.
It has some default clock themes which can easily be edited to allow for different fonts or elements.
Its a good utility to use until you can figure out how conky works and can just script and write your own.
Also Conky Variables
Vega's issues will be sorted out in kernel 4.14, so if you need a card working on all cylinders in a month, nvidia is your only choice between the two. The DAL code hasn't been released yet for amd.
You shouldn't have issues with that config if you are on kernel 4.12 and nvidia-384.
Assuming ubuntu based:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
Ubuntu Unity isn't the greatest distro to start out customizing. To me KDE or even Xfce Desktop Environments have many customize options. So may be you like to start there at least someday.
As for Conky. Conky has a Manager. To make things a little bit easier.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Install the Conky Manager and it's Theme Packs. You'll be surprise how easy it is to use Conky.
It's not being offered by the Mint updater, they are using the utility Ukuu that automates checking for new kernels at Kernel-ppa/mainline and installing them for the user.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html?m=1
It seems to be distribution agnostic because they provide .Run files, but check out that entire page because they have some additional steps for non Ubuntu or Debian systems.
I've never really used Fedora longer than a live session, so I'm not sure if they package something similar to TimeShift in new releases.
I tried Ubuntu, I didn't find it terribly stable and couldn't stand the unity interface, I switched to Mint and never looked back.
One thing I've noticed is that you seem to be doing things the difficult way with a lot of un nessecary fussing in terminal. For instance, the best way to install the latest Nvidia drivers is to add the Ubuntu PPA for Nvidia drivers, see here:
http://m.webupd8.org/2015/08/new-official-proprietary-gpu-drivers.html
Once this is done you can go into Settings > Driver manager and just update to the latest Nvidia has to offer - I've done this numerous times on a number of machines and its totally hassle free.
Secondly, the easiest way to configure Conky is to download and install Conky Manager:
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Just download the .deb file and install via the installer.
Just a couple of tips, as contrary to your findings I can have a Linux rig up and running using a packaged distro like Mint 17.3 in around an hour including graphics drivers, updates, all extra software applications and have the GUI tweaked to my liking - Verses around 4 hours for Windows.
I'm also running SLI 670FTWs and dual 1080p monitors, but I think I'll yank one of the 670s as I'm not finding SLI support that great under Linux. Its not even that great under Windows, hence why I switched to a single 980Ti.
Now, I'm off to download insurgency as it looks awesome! My Linux game library is growing beyond belief!
Conky is great. I even found a Conky Manager. Where you don't have to fiddle with the .config files much.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Make sure you pick up the Official Theme Pack #1.
And it's very easy to use third-party Conky themes with this manager. Change to many Conky settings in a snap.
I also was having this problem,all day Yesterday. I Could Not Figure out what the heck was going on.
What I had Done is I Installed Conky Manager first..
Via my app center. Started working fine for a few till I got that font rendering bug as you posted.
Explored the net for answers. Got a few. Some one had said it could of been That conky was running multiple instance's.
You can Check that 1st.
Here's is What I did To Have the Stable Conky. Distorted Free ConK!
Optional - Turn off/ xinerama if you have it enabled. Only if You have experienced conky beating/flickering like a heart. Mine is switched off.
Optional - Grab A beverage.
: Removed conky manager/conky
: Removed package leftovers.
: Restarted.
: Installed Conky Via my Synaptic. You Can use the install command on your terminal. I Did not.
: Ran Conky to see If it was running good. Checked. Closed the conky instance.
: Installed Conky Manager via command through here. http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
: Ran Conky Manager to check for the bug. No Bug found.
:Changed some settings in Conky here And there.
Here are the sites I found with the same issue.
You may want to look into these at your convenience time.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/447977/why-isnt-conky-working-right-in-unity-desktop
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=12922
The #! One was a little off for me I don't know if they fixed this or not. But I'm under Ati/Amd 64 bit,Kernel 3.13.0-52 Generic.
xinerama Is turned off on mine. no flicker. Maybe I will turn it on later to Test. Hope that Help's.
Better use this link. The official Conky-Manager website http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html. And don't forget to install the Official Theme Pack #1 (15 MB), Because the default has limited Themes. This just boost the amount of themes to try out. You can add more from other sites. Like the one you was going to try out.
monitor + menu
Right click on the panel and click "Add Applets to panel", look in there for a monitor and menu that suits your taste. I'd also check out conky and conky manager if you want something Rainmeter-esque. If you don't like the add-ons there also take a look at cario-dock or docky and ditch the Cinnamon panel altogether.
screenshots
scrot is easy to use for screenshots. I also like xfce4-screenshooter as it supports uploading to imgur now. I've heard good things about simplescreenrecorder for video, never used it personally however.
Word of advice: whatever you do first make backup using timeshift. I have as you said obliterated my own system and restored it with timeshift. Its absolute skin-saver in situations like this.
EDIT: You were supposed to do this before upgrading but oh well, that ship now sailed.
Just a suggestion but dxvk and wine tend to work better with latest graphics drivers and kernel.
You can the latest mesa-git drivers from a few good repos. Personally I find oibaf repo great for drivers
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers
I use ukuu to keep my kernels up to date.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/ukuu-kernel-upgrade-utility.html
Currently running mess git 18.3 and kernel also 18.3 with great performance.
Sleep problems aside, install TLP and in bios, deactivate SD card reader, bluetooth. Possibly updating to the newer 4.17 kernel might help - I use UKUU which simplifies this. With powertop, I get <5 W during normal use with predicted battery life of 10 hours running Ubuntu 18.04.
Yeah that's sounds about right. I also a couple of W less with Opera. Anyway, you should update your kernel to 4.17. You can use UKKU if you want, it's really super easy. You can install it by:
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ukuu
Also Gnome is not really excellent in terms of performance, I recommend you to switch to Kubuntu or something like Solus, I think that can improve your battery life even more. If you want, you can just burn any distro on a USB and install tlp and powertop in Live USB mode and check your battery consumption.
-Conky Manager: http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
-Wallpaper From: https://wallpaperscraft.com/all/3840x2160 (my personal fav site for wallpapers that arent shit quality
-Theme: Vilvaldi Dark theme with auto hide panel
Now that I think about it, I should’ve made the terminal a bit smaller.. it’s taking a huge portion of the screen up
You can read about it here: http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html
Deja-Dup backs up new and changed user files as well as system files. Timeshift is analogous to the Windows system restore. It's a useful addition to Mint. I already use it in addition to my two preferred backup solutions:
Backintime Borgbackup
I use Backintime for backup to network storage and Borg for backups to local storage (USB3 drive on a docking station).
- wallpaper: https://newevolutiondesigns.com/50-futuristic-city-wallpapers
- GTK: Mint-Y-Yltra-Dark
- Conky: Cowan Blue http://www.teejeetech.in/2013/07/deluxe-conky-theme-pack.html
- Icons: La-Capitane https://github.com/keeferrourke/la-capitaine-icon-theme.git
Check out Aptik > "Aptik is a tool for migrating system settings and data to a fresh install of a Ubuntu-based distribution. It can be used while re-installing or upgrading to the next Ubuntu/Linux Mint release."
Go for Conky Manager. http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
It has scripts built in that will make you love your new desktop Here is mine https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bBsXNQCWFBI/WJJX33AmSnI/AAAAAAABMqU/_ifNobV2pX0YaUPvcFj8kNpW4IlWUVoLQCJoC/w530-h298-p-rw/Screenshot_2017-02-02_08-48-33.png
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html
Uses rsync. Been around forever and is a great set and forget.
For your home folder you could setup a simple rsync script and use this https://github.com/rubo77/rsync-homedir-excludes/blob/master/rsync-homedir-excludes.txt
I think it's better to install some customize conky scripts at first. Just to get the feel and understand how conky works and to learn how to edit the script to your liking.
As I explain to someone else today. Also successful install conky and used a github conky script. As you see in my earlier post. /r/linuxquestions/comments/5qth86/how_do_i_install_conky_dotfiles/dd20b3q/
For battery status. I would just use a widget in the panel. I like screenfetch. But, seeing it the whole time in a conky setup wouldn't be a good idea.
I'm using neofetch and I still wouldn't want to see it all the time.
http://i.imgur.com/QyIE8fd.png
Just bring it up in the terminal when you want to see it or show it off.
Battery Monitor
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/07/battery-monitor-notify-charging-status/
Look for a customize conky script you like. There easy to run them. There is a conky manager if your interesting in it.
Also to OP, check out a program called "Conky Manager" that can help you customize your layout. Just be warned the pre-written configs will probably need to be tweaked for your system, like your disk partition layout on the graphs (root is on /dev/sda4, swap /dev/sdb2, etc), or which network device is used on a bandwidth chart.
on ubuntu mate - I believe this give me an list of what I installed - excluding dependencies/standard:
comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)
I think you find installed PPAs here:
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
Maybe look into what aptik does for inspiration for you script.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/conky
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Either of those should get you a head start. If I'm wrong about it being conky then I'm sorry for sending you in the wrong direction.
i3blocks & conky-manager(Gotham+CPU)
is riced the correct term? I'm awfully new to this!
Anyway, i'm in love.
Install conky, play with different icon sets, terminal hacks.
I am on Debian Jessie too.
I did find this one neat terminal hack that is pretty cool.
http://tuxtweaks.com/2013/12/install-screenfetch-linux/
That's kind of neat, once installed, changes how your terminal looks once it is started.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Conky Manager is kind of nice, way to be able to load/unload/switch conky theme/elements/widgets.
I hope this helps get you started.
There is a GUI conky manager. But, yes you should learn how to do things manually when using conky. The GUI conky manager just make things easier.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
If you install the Official Theme Pack #1 (15 MB). You'll see what conky is all about. I like it where you can download/copy&paste other conky scripts. And easily place them in the GUI conky manger. Switching to another conky setup is a breeze using the conky manager.
I really like Conky.
Been editing Conky configurations all the time. Now I'm getting lazy and start using a GUI Conky Manger.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Still sometime you have to manually edit your Conky config
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/set-battery-in-conky-correctly.html
I really like Conky.
Been editing Conky configurations all the time. Now I'm getting lazy and start using a GUI Conky Manger.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
Still sometime you have to manually edit your Conky config
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/set-battery-in-conky-correctly.html
Conky has a GUI Manager. To change Conky theme with a click.
http://www.teejeetech.in/p/conky-manager.html
First install Conky
sudo apt-get install conky
Then the Manager above. Also download the Theme pack for lot more of Conky setup themes.
Now you have clocks on your desktop
Looks like it's conky-manager you're trying to install, and not conky.
Are you trying to use the SlackBuild for conky to build conky-manager?
2 weeks ago I experienced a graphics problem after an update. I couldn't pinpoint the problem because A) I am a middle aged noob and B) kernel updates (of 3.13) and nvidia driver updates (346.76 from ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa) were happening simultaneously (150Mb update altogether). Accepted the defeat and reinstalled the 64-bit 14.04 system (with 3.16 kernel), and decided not to use latest nvidia driver from ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa. It's working now.
As an answer to your last question for future reference: If I was able to launch applications or open terminal, I would launch Timeshift and restore my most recent snapshot of the system. Then I would replace nvidia 346.76 with an older nvidia driver from Software & Updates>Additional Drivers and if it worked I would take a new snapshot as my backup.
TL;DR: find a good backup application to back you up when you are noob & out.
The preferred solution is normally to use Conky, it's not very user friendly so normally using Conky Manager is suggested if you don't want to spend hours tweaking.
I don't use none what so ever. I simple copy only my import data manually and move it to my external drives, jump drives, and to the cloud. As for everything else I can get back with a simple reinstallment and adjust a few of my personal setting. If I really what to save all my personal settings. I would use Clonezilla as my digital image of my drive.
Another backup restore function software. There is also Timeshift. http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html
http://www.unixmen.com/timeshift-restore-linux-desktops-previous-state/
It still won't work in your situation. I just bring it up for the others that read this post. You got your way's set that fit your needs. I have my ways to fit my needs. So I hope this post helps other to set there needs as well.
It's actually 4 separate conky instances running. I use conky manager. The clock (I modified that one to include the traffic totals from ddwrt) and the 3 day weather forecast came either included with conky-manger or from the themes pack (I think the theme pack is downloadable from the same page).
The TV shows and weather are two separate conkys but they are just calling ${exec to cat text files.
I would check out conky manager, it's pretty cool but here is the clock conky anyway :
update_interval 1 total_run_times 0 net_avg_samples 1 cpu_avg_samples 1 imlib_cache_size 0 double_buffer yes no_buffers yes format_human_readable use_xft yes xftfont Existence:size=8 override_utf8_locale yes text_buffer_size 2048 own_window_class Conky own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent yes own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager alignment middle_middle gap_x 0 gap_y 35 draw_shades no default_color c4c4c4 own_window_argb_visual yes own_window_argb_value 0 own_window_colour 000000 minimum_size 0 360 TEXT ${voffset 100}${alignc}${offset -160}${font FFF Tusj:pixelsize=120}${time %H|%M}${font}${if_match ${time %H}<12}AM${else}${if_match ${time %H}>12}PM${endif}${endif}${font} ${voffset 22}${alignc}${offset -160}${font FFF Tusj:pixelsize=27}${alignc}${time %Y %A, %B %d} ${voffset -10}${alignc}${font Caviar Dreams:pixelsize=12}${exec cat /tmp/totalstext}
its a conky script i found in conky manager and make sure you add in the theme pack