No matter how much you change your desktop background image and switch distro themes, staring at the same computer’s screen day in and day out can become humdrum. Conky can be used to decorate the ...

Reader Sean's desktop proves that Linux can be bright, colorful, and geeky all at the same time—there's no reason to be stuck with brown. I'm running five separate instances of Conky to achieve this ...

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Conky is pretty old (though not as old as GKrellM), and someone else could probably give you a more technical description than I can. It's a (mostly) text based monitoring tool that is hugely (almost ...