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http://crunchbang.org – for screenshots go to a site such as postimage.orgupload a full size screenshot and the site gives you a list of links to post... one says Thumbnail for Forums (1)copy that into your post and that gives a clickable thumbnailas it is i can barely read any of the text in your screenshotalso post in the main conky threadalso look for the conky objects you are using in this pagehttp://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.htmlsee if there is anything additonal you might need such as providing a battery number - defualt is BAT0, but yours might be BAT1 for examplealso with hddtempDisplays temperature of (HowTos)

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Submitted by delinux on 12/12/2012 – Made popular on 12/12/2012

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