GKrellM 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.


There are many alternatives to Conky for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is GKrellM, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Conky and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Conky are Eww, vtop, fabric (Desktop Widgets System) and nwg-wrapper.
GKrellM 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.


Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.




vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.




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.

MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. Based on the Electron application wrapper and tested (but not limited to) Raspberry Pi single board computers.
gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.


A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python

Works flawlessly out of the box, while being nice to look at as well.