The Best 12 BGINFO4X Alternatives

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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 licensed. New code in Conky has been licensed under the GPL 3.0.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Bginfo

    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...

    Free Windows

  • 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 OS X Windows Linux

  • KDE Plasma Workspaces

    Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE. Plasma separates components into "data engines" and their visualization...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Moss

    Moss is a live wallpaper, an alternative to Conky for Android. It provides system statistics such as uptime, cpu usage, network usage, top processes, and battery level.

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • WPInfo

    WPInfo displays system information on the Windows wallpaper. It works similarly to BGInfo from SysInternals but it adds a few unique features: - Picks the background...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • AveDesk

    AveDesk is a program that will give you the possibility to have icons on your desktop which could update themselves. Each icon of Avedesk is in fact a desklet, a little...

    Free Windows

  • AlomWare 64

    AlomWare 64: See your PC's stats as a live C64 wallpaper! The best-selling computer of all time comes alive again on your PC! Lovingly made for all C64 fans...

    Commercial Windows

  • Cysboard

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

    Free Linux