The desktop customization ecosystem is rife with cool utilities capable of transforming dull setups into slick environments.

update_interval: How many seconds Conky waits before refreshing itself. Even a "1.0" value shouldn't affect performance too much on a modern system, but if you're not looking for real-time system ...

Linux has a few different options for monitoring your system's resources, but our favorite is definitely the lightweight, super-configurable Conky, which sits right on your desktop. Screenshot by ...

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 ...

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 ...

I know there are several OS X system monitoring tools out there (e.g., iStat, iPulse, GeekTool, etc.), but is there anything out there that is as flexible (and pretty) as Conky on Linux? It doesn't ...