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Conky VS Pokki

Compare Conky VS Pokki and see what are their differences

Conky logo 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.

Pokki logo Pokki

Window 8 Start Menu by Pokki. Get your Start menu back and more. “The Windows 8 Pokki Menu is a crowd-pleaser.” “restore the Start Menu, but with an updated look and feel”. “Pokki helps [Windows 8] a lot.
  • Conky Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21
  • Pokki Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-09-23

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

Pokki videos

7 flavors of Pokki review

More videos:

  • Review - Pokki Start Menu Installing process & Review
  • Review - [Review] Tokpokki ăn liền O'food HOT TIKTOK! NGON HAY DỞ ???

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Conky and Pokki)
Monitoring Tools
100 100%
0% 0
LMS
0 0%
100% 100
Command Line Tools
100 100%
0% 0
Note Taking
0 0%
100% 100

User comments

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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: 11 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: about 1 year 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: about 1 year 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: about 1 year 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: about 1 year ago
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Pokki mentions (0)

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

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