Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. Originally a fork of Torsmo, Conkys torsmo-based code is BSD licensed. New code in Conky has been licensed under the GPL 3.0.
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GKrellM Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to GKrellM for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Conky, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to GKrellM and seven of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to GKrellM are Eww, fabric (Desktop Widgets System), AGS and Ignis (widget framework).
Alternatives list
30 Conky alternatives
Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
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The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.
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A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python
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This program is a GTK3-based wrapper to display a script output, or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors. It uses the gtk-layer-shell library to place the window on the bottom layer.
BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Windows created by Sysinternals.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
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