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If they don’t want to include any of the above for some reasons, than this wallpaper is far better than the current wallpaper:

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[Update2: Links updated. Instead of serving files from MediaFire, DropBox is used. Also, those of you having problem with weather or anything else don't forget to read the comments. Thanks to everyone using this post and spreading the words because of which my hosting server is down several times!]

[Update3: I've received few complaints about weather not being displayed. Yahoo changed their API (url) such that our script was never able to grab the weather info. I've now updated the scripts, and also updated this instruction. Leave a comment to let me know whether it works or not. Thanks!]

Ever wished that you had new mails notifications right on your desktop? Ever wished you knew the weather info right on your desktop? Ever wished you had your hardware information right on your desktop? Ever wished your desktop was productive and beautiful at the same time? Ever wished you didn’t have to use Mac4Lin theme to hide the ‘ugliness’ of Ubuntu’s native appearance? Ever wished you had a desktop that looked as beautiful as mine? Let’s fulfil your wish:

I have already talked about how to make your Ubuntu desktop look beautiful and productive. This time I will focus mostly on Conky. Conky is a lightweight system monitor for X. Not only monitoring system, with a little bit of scripting, it can be useful to know your new mails, weather info etc.

Here I’ve attached all the required files, attached my Conky configuration file and explained how to make your desktop look similar to mine.

[Updated]

1. Read my previous post about AWN and Gnome-Do.

2. Install Conky:
     $ sudo apt-get install conky

3. Download this file and save in your home directory(Right-click, Save Link As…save the file as .conkyrc)

4. Make a directory scripts in your home directory. Download these scripts, extract and copy them inside the directory you just created.

5. Download all these fonts, extract and copy them inside .fonts directory in your home directory. If you don’t have the .fonts directory, you need to create it. You might need to have administrative privileges to create this directory.

6. Open .conkyrc file. Look for this line:
     ${execpi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail_parser.py yourgmailusername yourgmailpassword 3}

7. Replace yourgmailusernamewith your username and yourgmailpassword with Gmail password. You might also need to install python-feedparser (thanks Onno and Neil for bringing this to my attention)
            $ sudo apt-get install python-feedparser

8. To monitor your hard disk and CPU temperature install lm-sensors and hddtemp

     $sudo apt-get install hddtemp

     $sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

9. Now you need to know the location id for your location for weather info. Head to http://weather.yahoo.com. Enter city or zip code for your location and click go. Copy the full url location from the address bar. The url should look something like:

          http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/idaho/boise-12793940/ for Boise, ID, USA
          http://weather.yahoo.com/nepal/central/kathmandu-2269179/  for Kathmandu, Nepal
          http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/new-york/new-york-2459115/ for New York, NY, USA

If you want Celcius, instead of default Farenheit, click on C° and then grab the url. With Celcius selected, above urls will look something like:
          http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/idaho/boise-12793940/?unit=c for Boise, ID, USA
          http://weather.yahoo.com/nepal/central/kathmandu-2269179/?unit=c  for Kathmandu, Nepal
          http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/new-york/new-york-2459115/?unit=c for New York, NY, USA

10. Open pogodynka.sh file look for this line kod=weatherURLGoesHere. Replace weatherURLGoesHere with the url you got from step 10 above

11. Create a new empty file in your home directory. Name it weather. Leave the file as it is; do nothing with the file.

12. Bring Run Applicationdialog box (Alt+F2) type conky to launch it

If everything goes right, your desktop should be looking much ‘cooler’

More info:

• My wallpaper, The Farm House, is from http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1545/the_farmhouse.html
• Emerald Theme is Scaled_Black_Mod from gnome-look.org
• More variables for conky
• Settings variables for conky

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