Nerdtool is described as 'Allows you to display many things directly on top of your desktop; weather reports, headline news, and system vitals are just a few uses' and is a system information utility in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Nerdtool for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Wayland and Python apps. The best Nerdtool alternative is Rainmeter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nerdtool are Stats, ViBox, Conky and iStat Menus.
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:
A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python
The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.
YAFI is another GUI for the Framework Laptop Embedded Controller. It is written in Python with a GTK4 Adwaita theme, and uses the CrOS_EC_Python library to communicate with the EC.
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.
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.
BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Windows created by Sysinternals.
WPInfo displays system information on the Windows wallpaper. It works similarly to BGInfo from SysInternals but it adds a few unique features:
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