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Conky VS nwg-wrapper

Compare Conky VS nwg-wrapper and see what are their differences

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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.

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Wrapper to display a script output or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors
  • Conky Landing page
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    2023-09-21
  • nwg-wrapper Landing page
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    2023-09-06

Conky videos

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

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Conky and nwg-wrapper)
Monitoring Tools
93 93%
7% 7
Log Management
78 78%
22% 22
Command Line Tools
92 92%
8% 8
Tool
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Conky should be more popular than nwg-wrapper. 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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nwg-wrapper mentions (6)

  • Using nwg-wrapper for a HUD of help for sway modes
    Usage: sway-mode [-c,--config config-file] [-C,--css css-file] mode Puts sway into mode 'mode' and displays some help by extracting a Section from the config file. Options: -c,--config config_file location of your config file (/home/bhepple/.config/sway/config) -C,--css css_file location of your css file (/home/bhepple/.config/nwg-wrapper/mode-help.css) Requires nwg-wrapper... Source: 10 months ago
  • Digital overlay clock?
    Here's a script that uses nwg-wrapper to display a countdown - it would be easy to modify it to display a digital clock. Source: 12 months ago
  • Counting down before gtklock or suspend
    The countdown into gtklock is created by my script sway-count which uses nwg-wrapper. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Mucking about with layers
    For example, this works using nwg-wrapper :. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Any tip on optimizing this?
    Here's my script. It forks off a playerctl --follow with a custom format to work around read skipping empty items (like a song without an artist). You don't have to do that, I just prefer that so I can add nwg-wrapper to view album art and song title on my desktop without spinning up another playerctl read loop. Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Conky and nwg-wrapper, you can also consider the following products

GKrellM - GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its...

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

Bginfo - This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system.

Desktop Info - This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other...

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

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.