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The Sands of Time Linux Desktop

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Popular ‘tips & tricks’ site Lifehacker regularly feature readers’ custom desktops along with a ‘How To’ on creating the same look on your own desktop.

Annoyingly for Linux users the majority of desktops featured by Lifehacker tend to be OS X or Windows based.

One set-up that always impressed me was ‘Sands of Time’ by Ian Michael Smith – a Mac set-up using GeekTool to partially obscure a clock with sand dunes. It sounds simple – and it is – but the result looks stunning.

And the good news for Linux users is that Deviant Artist ~Flamer-Shaftglutton has recreated it using the lightweight system monitor Conky.

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‘Conky Colors’ 7.0 Adds Stylish New Theme

User-friendly Conky setup Conky Colors has added a new ‘stylish lightening stats’ mode as part of its 7.0 release.

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This ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Ubuntu desktop is gorgeous and simple to achieve

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Is your desktop in need of a makeover? The following desktop by DeviantArtist ~votritis, called ‘Stairway to heaven’, might be just what you’re after…

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Five beautifully simple Conky themes

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Ahh Conky. The desktop system monitor that comes with an intimidating learning curve is capable of producing some stunning, flashy and crazy looking desktops.

Its equally adept at doing understated too, as this selection of five ‘simple’ Conky themes shows.

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Five seriously cool conky set-ups for the Linux desktop

It’s seen by some as the stat setup of geeks, but once you move past the desktops filled with blocks of terminal-style output, Conky is capable of transforming your desktop into something pretty special. Here are five cool Conky themes that require no-input other than downloading, installing and then running. Suuuuny-conky by ~BigRZA Conky Popup by [...]

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This Minimal ‘conky Orange’ theme would look great on any desktop

Conky Orange theme for Ubuntu

I both love and loathe Conky in equal amounts. For all it’s inanely needless complexity it can produce some beautiful things.

Just take this minimally-stunning ‘Conky orange’ theme as a prime example.

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Conky-Faenza theme adds iStatPro flavour to your Ubuntu desktop

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Conky-Faenza is, as the name suggests, a Conky set-up with a Faenza flavour.

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Reversible Conky Clock and calendar Widget

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Add some style to your desktop with the above clock/calendar widget by ~jpope777. The reversible widget displays a unique animated clock face on one side and calendar on the reverse. A LED ‘button’ allows you to toggle between the modes although the calendar view has an auto-timeout that will switch back to the clock after [...]

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HTC-style Weather Clock for your desktop

Add some HTC-inspired beauty to your desktop using the following WeatherClock Conky script. Heavily influenced by the HTC widget available on many smart-phones (and the Windows desktop) it informs you of both the time and weather fore-casted for the coming 4 days. It’s lacks animation and is a bit of a hassle to get up [...]

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Faenza icon themed Conky bar for your Ubuntu desktop

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If you’re a big fan of the Faenza icon set then chances are the following Faenza styled Conky bar, created by pingsuters over on gnome-look.org, is sure to tempt.

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easy to use Lucid-themed conky bar now even easier to use!

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Remember that easy to use Lucid-themed Conky bar we showed you back in early May? It’s just got even easier to use.Many of you loved the look of the look of the bar but found the hacking needed to get it to fit your screensize a bit off-putting. Thankfully the developer, Veoduendes, has addressed that [...]

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Easy to use Lucid themed Conky bar

Conky is a  is a light-weight system monitor that can be customized extensively (Windows converts think ‘rainmeter’.) and the following Conky theme by Veoduendes certainly proves that. Called ‘Conky Ubuntu Lucid Theme’ (!) it’s designed, yep you guessed it, for Ubuntu 10.04 although Karmic users using the Ambiance/Radiance themes will likely find it blends in [...]

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