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Script to manage my Conky collection

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http://crunchbanglinux.org – I recently started playing with Conky configs again and pretty soon ran into the problem of amassing a collection of them and testing them easily. (And it was while deleting a .conkyrc that Thunar ate my data :( )After some searching and googling I hadn't found a way of managing Conky resources and switching configs easily, so I've come up with a couple of scripts to do it.....How to set it up1) Create a directory to hold the configs (I've coded it as ~/.conky)2) Each Conky needs to have the .conkyrc's in its config directory, along with any resources,scripts etc. If they n (HowTos)

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