Conky
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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Danilo_Venom added Conky as alternative to MyDesktopWidget
chililikobo added Conky as alternative to Simple Stats- vbsrdbfsw liked Conky
- K0RR added Conky as alternative to Ignis (widget framework) and fabric (Desktop Widgets System)
Stone_Red added Conky as alternative to DesktopMagic
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Comments and Reviews
Lightweight and very customizeable.
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.
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.
Using MXlinux . With conky manger2 and mx-conky very easy to edit .
Very great tool for all your needs.