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I and most know how to implement conky into the desktop, although it would be great to create a widget for it.

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Excuse me for my ignorance but what exactly conky does. On what principle does it work.
I have a feeling that it's more complex than STDIN plasmoid or command watch plasmoid that already exists.
But STDIN might be able to run it if conky is based on bash script.

Conky is a system monitor. But yeah, it's nice to include such information in the first post (we mods aren't all-knowing. Just almost )

This is probably already possible with the (hackish) XEmbed plasmoid, but I don't know if there's a better way to do it (without porting).

Another way would be to use htop with proposed konsole plasmoid.
But AFAIK conky is much more than that...
There are many system monitors on KDE-Look, but most of them are "karamboids" not plasmoids.
And also with my "feeble" understanding of Conky it's much more customizable than any of those monitors.
So I guess we really need something like that.

Conky is a system monitor, but in such a way that it is very powerfull.
You can show almost any information you want through variables and scripts. In the web there are a lot of config files and you can copy or modify them in fact of create a new one (it may be hard).
Also it is sooo light...
http://conky.sourceforge.net/
To put it into the desktop:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... =3100161.0

I thnik that the conky configs aren't just plain scripts, they have conky specific stuff, so one would have to make an conky plasmoid clone

For now you could use the x-embedd-win-Plasmoid.

When I was on Arch i used another (a bit tricky) way:

1)installed conky-cli to have conky show is output on console

2)have it to write output on a file :

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conky > ~/.conkystate

3)used file watcher plasmoid to show updates on the given file

I used it for smaller outputs than conky's default (just temperatures and a few other information).