Conky System Monitor For X

Conky System Monitor For X.

onky system monitor for X is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

It is available for Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Conky features can display more than 300 built-in 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).
Built-in IMAP and POP3 support.
Built-in support for many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, Audacious).
Can be extended using built-in Lua support, or any of your own scripts and programs (more).
Built-in Imlib2 and Cairo bindings for arbitrary drawing with Lua (more).
Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku OS, and macOS!
and much much more...

License: GNU/GPLv3

Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables, including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail inboxe.

Linux updates, many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious, etc.), weather updates, breaking news, and much more.

Unlike other system monitors that use high-level widget toolkits to render their information, Conky is drawn directly in an X window.

This allows it to consume relatively fewer system resources when configured similarly.

Conky was once hailed as "one of the best maintained and most useful programs, in the world of open source" in Linux Magazine.