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Conky VS Nerdtool

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Latest commit 262a292 on Dec 7, 2017 brndnmtthws Add missing build dep. Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

Nerdtool logo Nerdtool

NerdTool is a GeekTool-like application that displays information directly on your desktop.
  • Conky Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21
  • Nerdtool Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-19

Conky videos

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Conky System Info for Ham Radio Digital Operators

More videos:

  • Review - LEGO Conky Robot MOC Review from Pee-Wee's Playhouse #ToyReplay
  • Review - Making Linux Look Good - Conky First-Time Setup - Live Stream

Nerdtool videos

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Nerdtool & Quartz Composer... Experiments... 2 of 4

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Conky and Nerdtool)

Conky

Nerdtool

Monitoring Tools
77 77%
Monitoring Tools
23% 23
Command Line Tools
74 74%
Command Line Tools
26% 26
Tool
61 61%
Tool
39% 39
Performance Monitoring
100 100%
Performance Monitoring
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Conky seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 42 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Conky mentions (42)

  • An app to count down till certain day
    Maybe put something like echo $(($(date -d 24-Dec +%j) - $(date +%j))) days into your bashrc. Conky should be able to display it nicely on the desktop. Source: 10 months ago
  • Do you plan on adding widgets to your desktop in Sonoma?
    What I could go for is something like Conky (https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky). Source: 11 months ago
  • Give Wayland a shot, don't base your opinion off of 2013 articles!
    Funny meme btw. Personally, I use xorg with 3 displays. Fortunately, the resolution is same on all screens (full HD). I use Komorebi for live wallpapers and conky for sidebar. It works flawlessly. Source: 11 months ago
  • Issue in hyprland
    If you are using Wayland, then you may want to do some searches related to "wayland conky transparency" and see what results. Also, if you are using wayland, you will want to be sure you are using the latest possible version of conky, as close to 1.18.x or 1.19.2 as possible, as wayland support is a relatively new addition to conky. If you are on the latest or a late version and are also using the wayland video... Source: 11 months ago
  • I need a small tool to monitor the CPU temperature and Fans RPM in Fedora 38
    Conky is the best.... you can set whatever info you like and display the info in many style..... Source: 11 months ago
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Nerdtool mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Nerdtool yet. Tracking of Nerdtool recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Conky and Nerdtool, you can also consider the following products

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Übersicht - Keep an eye on what is happening on your machine and in the World.

htop - htop - an interactive process viewer for Unix. This is htop, an interactive process viewer for Unix systems. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Latest release: htop 2.

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