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gotop VS Conky

Compare gotop VS Conky and see what are their differences

gotop logo gotop

A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop

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.
  • gotop Landing page
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    2023-07-28
  • Conky Landing page
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    2023-09-21

gotop videos

GoTop Smart Watch Fitness Tracker, Heart beat monitor review - 247Tech

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  • Review - GOTOP Action Camera test flight with DJI Phantom 2 Zenmuse H3-3D

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

0-100% (relative to gotop and Conky)
Monitoring Tools
16 16%
84% 84
Command Line Tools
17 17%
83% 83
Performance Monitoring
100 100%
0% 0
Tool
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Conky seems to be a lot more popular than gotop. While we know about 42 links to Conky, we've tracked only 4 mentions of gotop. 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.

gotop mentions (4)

  • Looking for the name of this application - taken from Kali homepage
    As other users have said, the one on the screenshot is gotop, which was archived close to 3 years ago. I would personally recommend bashtop, which is similar function, it is still developed and it's built in shell and a bit of Python. ofc, this is just my opinion. Hope you find a good system monitor. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Is there any maintaned alternative to vtop, i.e. a system monitor with Vim bindings?
    Gotop looks awesome! Here's a maintained fork that's linked to from the original, archived GitHub repo. Source: over 1 year ago
  • List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.
    Gotop (a system monitor that's more readable than htop IMO). Source: over 2 years ago
  • I love Pop!_OS and changing themes a lot
    Thank you! Gruvbox is what made me want to start theming from the get-go, especially that light theme. The system monitor is a terminal instance running gotop. Source: almost 3 years ago

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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What are some alternatives?

When comparing gotop 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...

Bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal

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