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 50 alternatives to Rainmeter and 12 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Rainmeter are Eww, hwinfo, fabric (Desktop Widgets System) and GKrellM.
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Most Rainmeter alternatives are System Information Utilities, but you can also narrow the list to Desktop Customization Tools or Network Monitors. Other popular filters are Mac, Android, Linux, Desktop Customization and Windows. You can also filter for EU-based alternatives if you prefer software from the European Union.
Alternatives list
- 35 Conky alternatives
Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
Germany
EU
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141 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.
- Germany
- EU
The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.
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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.
United States
- Germany
- EU
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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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gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Since
- Since 2011
Alerts
- Discontinued
Free Windows and Linux software for designing live PC hardware dashboards with gauges, graphs, meters, text, clocks and images. Track CPU, GPU, memory, storage, network, fans, power and FPS, then run panels fullscreen, as desktop overlays or on paired phones and USB screens.
Australia
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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.
- United States
