I recently decided to try Openbox as my window manager and haven’t changed since then. Well I have still a lot to configure, but results so far have been very teaching. Anyway I wanted to present in this second post my Conky. Which is a very customisable lightweight system monitor for desktop.
I based my conky -code on this one line conky (by Lyrae). It includes a script which informs whether all packages are up to date or not. I’m not a Perl expert, so I don’t know yet if I was able to modify the script to work in Ubuntu. But at the moment Conky shows the time, mails (POP3), current song in Exaile, how long system has been on, net uploading and downloading, how many GiB I have used in my home folder, memory and CPU usage. To make it little prettier I used few special fonts to show the stars (Seeing Stars) and arrows (PizzaDude Bullets).
Hanna’s Conky and the code. I recommend checking the Ubuntu Geek for further instructions 
. If you want to use my code, you can replace the code in .conkyrc file (a hidden file in home directory) with mine.
Useful Links:
Conky (Conky variables)
Some conky codes can be found in Gnome-Look.org, write in search field conky. Check also for example this thread: Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots in Ubuntu Forums.
ps. A little hint for myself 
, make scripts executable, surprisingly things may start working 
pps. Only 7 days till Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron 
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