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.

Uwidgets is described as 'Bring MacOS-inspired interactive widgets to Windows with real-time blur, themes, customizable layouts, and widgets for weather, monitor, notes, and more' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Uwidgets for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Wayland and Android apps. The best Uwidgets alternative is Rainmeter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Uwidgets are Libre Hardware Monitor, Wigify, Sidebar Diagnostics and Conky.
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.

Übersicht lets you run system commands and display their output on your desktop in little containers, called widgets. Widgets are written using HTML5, which means they




The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.




Dynamic background and/or lock screen picture with daily Bing or Windows Spotlight pictures, one Bing or Windows Spotlight picture or personal pictures.



WindowsWidgets is a Windows application that enables you to create, load, and manage customizable, standalone widgets for your desktop. The project is released under the AGPL license. This repository provides an overview of Widget Manager and the supporting plugins (widgets)...


How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you...

This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other desktop information tools. Unlike others, this application looks like wallpaper but stays resident in memory and continues to update the display in real time.


GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins:




RainWallpaper is a powerful live wallpaper engine that allows you to use various types of customizable animated wallpapers on your Windows desktop.



A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python

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.

