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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Rainmeter Alternatives for Linux
Rainmeter is not available for Linux but there are plenty of 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 25 alternatives to Rainmeter and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Rainmeter are Eww, hwinfo, GKrellM and fabric (Desktop Widgets System).
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Alternatives list
30 Conky alternatives
64 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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128 hwinfo alternativeshwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.
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.
The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.
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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.
A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python
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21 gDesklets alternativesgDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
Wattage is an application designed for monitoring the health and status of your power devices. It displays quick data regarding battery capacity, energy metrics, and device information through a clean, modern GTK 4 + libadwaita interface.
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Conky lacks a main repository for adding/removing desktop widgets, nor maintains any central database of them.