Conky
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.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Performance Monitoring
- Geeky
- Command line interface
- Hardware Monitoring
- Uptime Monitoring
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Support for Multiple Monitors
- Website Monitoring
Conky News & Activities
Recent activities
Stone_Red added Conky as alternative to DesktopMagic- solandrewyzeapshelta added Website Monitoring as a feature to Conky
- solandrewyzeapshelta reviewed Conky
Lightweight and very customizeable.
- solandrewyzeapshelta liked Conky
sterno900 added Conky as alternative to Sidebar Diagnostics
OpenSourceSoftware added Conky as alternative to WindowsWidgets
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What is Conky?
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.
Since its inception, Conky has changed significantly from its predecessor, while maintaining simplicity and configurability. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Not only does Conky have many built-in objects, it can also display just about any piece of information by using scripts and other external programs.
Features
Conky can display more than 300 built-in objects, including support for:
A plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk usage, "top" like process stats, and network monitoring, just to name a few). Built-in IMAP and POP3 support. Built-in support for many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious). Can be extended using built-in Lua support, or any of your own scripts and programs (more). Built-in Imlib2 and Cairo bindings for arbitrary drawing with Lua (more).
... and much much more.
Conky information
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Network & Admin, OS & Utilities, System & HardwareGitHub repository
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- 648 Forks
- 99 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Using MXlinux . With conky manger2 and mx-conky very easy to edit .
Very great tool for all your needs.
Pain to set up. Nearly all widgets are broken out of box without additional coding. There is a third party manager, but it's not stable enough like Rainmeter's manager. Though both doesn't allow any UI for settings, like language, standards etc.
Lightweight and very customizeable.
Use this utility with custom config script https://github.com/jxai/lean-conky-config otherwise it's very hard to setup the config file.
Conky can look beautiful. Unfortunately it only came with a buggy config that covered my desktop icons with a black box and often disappears or flickers in Mint Xfce. I've switched to Gkrellm.