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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BgInfo Alternatives for Linux
BgInfo is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. 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 BgInfo and nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to BgInfo 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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23 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.
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.
13 BGINFO4X alternativesBGINFO 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
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