My Setup

December 16, 2009

I changed a couple of things around on my work setup I thought I’d share. First of all I moved to Fluxbox as my windowmanager on my Linux box. Fluxbox is lightweight, highly customizable and since I’m usually using a terminal to get things done it fits the bill perfect. I’m using conky as a lightweight system monitor to keep tabs on things like CPU usage, memory usage, network load, etc.

Below you can see my current Linux desktop. Conky is running on the bottom left of the screen with my customizations. My .conkyrc file can be found here.

As you can see I’m using two programs with conky. One to check my gmail account and another to check the current weather conditions. The perl script I’m using to check gmail can be found here. To keep up with local weather conditions I’m using a script that can be found here.

I also replaced my KVM setup in favor of having another monitor and using synergy to hop between systems. I’ll be writing a short paper on configuring synergy with a Linux and Windows system in the near future.

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