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 with 32-bit arch and there doesn't # seem to be a way to know how many times # it has already done that before torsmo # has started.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...