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.
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.
features
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.
Productivity Utilities System and Hardware
monitoring hardware-monitoring geeky
This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other desktop information tools.
Lets you keep your eye on system resource usages of your PC. It supports 43 kinds of information including CPU, Memory, Network, and detailed HDD usages, so you may discover what's limiting your system performance in each occasion. .
