Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays
any kind of information on your desktop.
? Grab the latest release from GitHub.
? An introduction to Conky (YouTube).
Features
Conky 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.
Conky can display information either as text, or using simple progress
bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and colours.
Screenshots
See the User Configs below for more screenshots and associated config files.
Quickstart
Conky comes bundled with many package managers. However, if you'd like to try the latest release of Conky, you can try the AppImage build. If you have jq and curl installed, run the following command to fetch the latest AppImage:
$ curl -sL -o conky-x86_64.AppImage \
$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/releases/latest, \
jq --raw-output '.assets[0], .browser_download_url')
$ ls
conky-x86_64.AppImage
If you don't have jq and curl installed, go to
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/releases/latest and fetch the latest
AppImage. Then:
$ chmod +x ./conky-x86_64.AppImage
$ ./conky-x86_64.AppImage -C > ~/.conkyrc
$ ./conky-x86_64.AppImage
And that's it! Check out the Wiki for more details on configuring Conky.
Note: To use the AppImage, you may need to install additional runtime libraries.
Documentation
The GitHub Wiki serves as a central hub for all of
Conky's documentation.
License
Conky is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 license.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome from anyone.
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on contributing to Conky.