Software Alternatives & Reviews

DriveGLEAM VS Conky

Compare DriveGLEAM VS Conky and see what are their differences

DriveGLEAM logo DriveGLEAM

DriveGleam is a free app that installs a handful of activity indicators as icons in your system...

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.
  • DriveGLEAM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-09-02
  • Conky Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21

DriveGLEAM videos

DriveGLEAM Software HDD Led indicator

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

Category Popularity

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Surveys
100 100%
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
100% 100
Eye Tracking
100 100%
0% 0
Command Line Tools
0 0%
100% 100

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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.

DriveGLEAM mentions (0)

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

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: 12 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: 12 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

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

DiskLED - DiskLED is a flexible hard disk and general system activity indicator system tray applet. 

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

HDD Led Indicator - This is a hard disk activity monitoring tool.

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

Atlas Hard Drive LED - Atlas Hard Drive LED is a system tray utility program that allows the user to always be aware of whether their hard drive is reading or writing. The system tray icon will change to the color red when the selected hard drive is processing.

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