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.

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conky is a free, lightweight system monitor for x, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. originally a fork of torsmo, conkys torsmobased code is bsd licensed. new code in conky has been licensed under the gpl 3.0.

since its inception, conky has changed significantly from its predecessor, while maintaining simplicity and configurability. conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. not only does conky have many builtin objects, it can also display just about any piece of information by using scripts and other external programs.

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conky can display more than 300 builtin objects, including support for:

a plethora of os stats (uname, uptime, cpu usage, mem usage, disk usage, "top" like process stats, and network monitoring, just to name a few). builtin imap and pop3 support. builtin support for many popular music players (mpd, xmms2, bmpx, audacious). can be extended using builtin lua support, or any of your own scripts and programs (more). builtin imlib2 and cairo bindings for arbitrary drawing with lua (more).

... and much much more.

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