Conky VS nmon

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Conky

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.

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This systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance...

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Monitoring Tools

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Monitoring Tools

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Command Line Tools

70 70%

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Performance Monitoring

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Conky seems to be a lot more popular than nmon. While we know about 42 links to Conky, we've tracked only 2 mentions of nmon. 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

nmon mentions (2)

Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
The tutorial has been moved to https://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php?n=Site.Nweb. Thanks for the share. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Slackware rice for my old dell laptop
Sorry for not being clear. I'm talking about this tool here: http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php. Source: almost 2 years ago