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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Screenlets Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to Screenlets for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people 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 Screenlets and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Screenlets are GKrellM, BGINFO4X, KDE Plasma Workspaces and gDesklets.
Alternatives list
30 Conky alternatives
21 GKrellM alternativesGKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme.
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
Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE. Plasma separates components into "data engines" and their visualization counterparts. This is intended to reduce the total programming effort when there are multiple possible...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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