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Rainmeter

Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity. Created by Rainys

Free Open Source
Windows

Rainmeter is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The most popular Linux alternative is Conky, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked 33 alternatives to Rainmeter and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Rainmeter are GKrellM (Free, Open Source), hwinfo (Free, Open Source), Cysboard (Free) and gDesklets (Free, Open Source).

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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...
- Conky lacks a main repository for adding/removing desktop widgets, nor maintains any central database of them. Guest • Dec 2016 • 9 agrees and 6 disagrees
Free Open Source Linux BSD
Geeky Hardware Monitoring Support for Multiple Monitors Network Monitoring ... Performance Monitoring Uptime Monitoring Add a feature

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GKrellM

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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Config by GUI instead of text file Hardware Monitoring System Info Add a feature

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hwinfo

hwinfo/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.

Free Open Source Linux
Hardware Monitoring System Info Add a feature

5 Like
Cysboard

Cysboard - A lightweight system monitor similar to conky with html and css for themes

Free Linux
No features added Add a feature

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gDesklets

gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. You can...
- Discontinued
  The project is no longer updated since 2011 and the official website is no longer available. The unofficial website http://gdesklets.info/archive/ maintains an archive of new and old desklets.
Free Open Source Linux BSD
Widgets Add a feature

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