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Graphical Ping VS Conky

Compare Graphical Ping VS Conky and see what are their differences

Graphical Ping logo Graphical Ping

Graphical Ping displays a color coded realtime graph of continuous pings to a specified host.

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.
  • Graphical Ping Landing page
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    2018-12-19
  • Conky Landing page
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    2023-09-21

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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 Graphical Ping and Conky)
Monitoring Tools
24 24%
76% 76
OS & Utilities
100 100%
0% 0
Command Line Tools
0 0%
100% 100
Security
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Conky seems to be a lot more popular than Graphical Ping. While we know about 42 links to Conky, we've tracked only 1 mention of Graphical Ping. 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.

Graphical Ping mentions (1)

  • Random short lag spikes?
    If you are more a GUI guy: When I'm interested in a time series of ping times, I use http://gping.com/. Source: over 1 year 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: 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 Graphical Ping and Conky, you can also consider the following products

Ping Meter Gadget - Customizable, graphical, semi-transparent ping (latency) meter.

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

Fping (open source) - fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.

Rainmeter - Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform.

SmokePing - Smokeping is a tool for measuring latency.

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