Conky Alternatives for Linux
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 eight of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Conky are Eww, vtop, GonhaNG and BGINFO4X.
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Conky alternatives are mainly Desktop Customization Tools but may also be System Information Utilities or Process Monitoring Tools. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Conky.- System Information Utility
- Free • Open Source
20 likes20 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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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GKrellM VS Conky
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8 likes45 Eww alternativesElkowars 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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Eww VS Conky
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13 likes47 vtop alternativesvtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
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vtop VS Conky
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1 like3 GonhaNG alternativesGonhaNG is a light-weight system monitor for Linux, its display weather forecasts, date, time, cpu temperature, memory load, cpu load, filesystems and network stats (download and upload rate).
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- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
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GonhaNG VS Conky
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4 likes10 BGINFO4X alternativesBGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Windows created by Sysinternals.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
Discontinuedlast post or update 2014
BGINFO4X VS Conky
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3 likes16 gDesklets alternativesgDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed and the official website is no longer available. Last version, 0.36.3, released in January 2011, can be still downloaded from Launchpad
gDesklets VS Conky
Is gDesklets a good alternative to Conky?- 1 like2 MagicMirror² alternatives
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.
MagicMirror² VS Conky
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Like this app13 nwg-wrapper alternativesThis 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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- Wayland
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nwg-wrapper VS Conky
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Comments about GKrellM as an Alternative to Conky
Works flawlessly out of the box, while being nice to look at as well.
I've used GKrellM for years in Linux. Very simple to set up and displays the info I like to keep an eye on. I didn't realise it's available on Windows too.
Cross platform, Open source and Configurable in a user-friendly way, Definitely the best alternative in my book