Dogky

A custom Conky-like Linux system monitor written in Rust.

Aim

This project exists to replace my Conky configuration.

Issues with Conky:

My configuration requires:
- Shell commands for many parts that Conky macros do not cover.
- Custom Python code for the weather panel.
Conky has many C macros, e.g. OBJ in src/core.cc, making things hard to refactor.
Conky attempts to support X.org, MacOS. This introduces lots of code we don't need.

~/.config/dogky/dogky.yaml
- See src/config.rs for options.
- Commands, e.g. cpu_memory.process_list.top_command, have environment variable support.
~/.config/dogky/styles.yaml
- See src/styles_config.rs for options.

The UI layout isn't configurable.

Copy src/show-ram-frequency.service to /etc/systemd/system/show-ram-frequency.service. Enable it:

$ systemctl enable show-ram-frequency.service

The UI is clickable. The cursor icon changes where this applies.

Weather panel
- Opens the weather forecast in a browser.
Process list
- Run a user-specified command. The intention is to launch some version of Top.
Hardware names
- Click to copy.

To set up the project for development, run:

$ cd dogky/
$ pnpm install conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits
$ pre-commit install --hook-type pre-commit --hook-type commit-msg