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Conky VS Stats

Compare Conky VS Stats 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.

Stats logo Stats

Simple macOS system monitor in your menu bar.
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    2023-09-21
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    2023-10-09

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

Stats videos

AP Stats - Cram Review (2019)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Conky and Stats)
Monitoring Tools
43 43%
57% 57
Command Line Tools
100 100%
0% 0
Log Management
21 21%
79% 79
Tool
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Stats should be more popular than Conky. It has been mentiond 94 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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Stats mentions (94)

  • Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
    Its not a terminal app like bottom or nvtop but I use https://github.com/exelban/stats and it has iGPU stats. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
    I’ve found stats [1] to be a great open source alternative to the iStat Menus system monitor app mentioned in the article. [1] https://github.com/exelban/stats. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • A standalone Activity Monitor alternative that isn't on the menu bar and shows stats for individual apps and groups processes by app?
    Have not used it for quite some time, and I think it was launching the Mac system monitor , it does don't have its own widow , but you can check this https://github.com/exelban/stats. Source: 10 months ago
  • iOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1 Address Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities, Make Sure to Update
    Install stats and put it in your menu bar. It will show the top processes. If my battery is going down quicker than usual I check there and it is usually some hungry tab in Firefox. But I've also noticed bluetoothd using way more CPU than I would expect. Source: 10 months ago
  • Any better-looking alternatives for iStats menu?
    Don't know about 'better looking', but I use https://github.com/exelban/stats. Source: 11 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

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

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

iStat Menus - "An advanced Mac system monitor for your menubar."

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

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

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