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GNOME System Monitor VS Conky

Compare GNOME System Monitor VS Conky and see what are their differences

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GNOME System Monitor logo GNOME System Monitor

System Monitor is a tool to manage running processes and monitor system resources.

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.
  • GNOME System Monitor Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-10-07
  • Conky Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21

GNOME System Monitor videos

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Fantastic GNOME System Monitor Tray - Vitals

More videos:

  • Tutorial - How to install Gnome System Monitor on Ubuntu

Conky videos

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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

0-100% (relative to GNOME System Monitor and Conky)

GNOME System Monitor

Conky

Monitoring Tools
34 34%
Monitoring Tools
66% 66
Command Line Tools
34 34%
Command Line Tools
66% 66
Performance Monitoring
100 100%
Performance Monitoring
0% 0
Tool
16 16%
Tool
84% 84

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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.

GNOME System Monitor mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of GNOME System Monitor yet. Tracking of GNOME System Monitor 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 GNOME System Monitor and Conky, you can also consider the following products

htop - htop - an interactive process viewer for Unix. This is htop, an interactive process viewer for Unix systems. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Latest release: htop 2.

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

Process Explorer - The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'l…

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

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

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

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