[matthew_maude]

anyone know how to change the background colour in conky?

i can change everything else but there's no obvious way of changing the background

[SimonGie · Accepted solution]

Open the terminal or ssh in.

Gain root

then

vim /etc/conky/conky.conf

Then search for:

own_window_transparent yes

press insert and change the yes to a no.

Then add the line

own_window_colour colour

Where colour is an rgb colour. So far I've tried yellow, blue, cyan and red but I'm sure there are more.

press esc then : the wq! to save and quit and then restart conky.

Worked for me.

[matthew_maude]

cheers, i'll give it a go when i get my phone back.

is vim the same as vi?

[SimonGie]

Essentially, but it is the newer version.

It's VImproved