Based on our record, Übersicht should be more popular than GKrellM. It has been mentiond 36 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.
If you're willing to dabble with some code, there's a fantastic app called Ubersicht that adds custom stuff to your desktop. I know, you're probably thinking "That's not at ALL what I want!" but I bet you could use it to put an icon in the bottom left or right corner of your screen to show when your audio is connected to your AirPods instead of the speakers, or something like that. Source: about 1 year ago
There is an app called Ubersicht that does some of what Rainmeter allows you to do on Windows. Source: about 1 year ago
Übersicht, an application that allows you to make your own desktop widgets (can execute system commands and see their output displayed in little containers). This can be used to virtually replace the default menu bar on mac. Source: about 1 year ago
Have you looked into Überschict? My current desktop has a calendar and a few other things displayed on it in semi-transparent windows. https://tracesof.net/uebersicht/. Source: about 1 year ago
Uebersicht (Free) Übersicht lets you run system commands and display their output on your desktop in little containers, called widgets. Widgets are written using HTML5, which means they are easy to write and customize can show data in tables, charts, graphs ... You name it can react to different screen sizes (I did make an Evangelion (If you get where that's from ❤️) system monitor for it... Yeah really cool,... Source: about 1 year ago
I always wanted more feedback, so that even in the mechanical disks and lots of fans era my desktop has always shown more data with GKrellM plus some of its plugins, namely multiping to show the status of my NAS and router, and bubblefishymon for a funny but very effective and immediate way to show that system load is growing suspiciously before fans start screaming. http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/ As for servers,... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Possibly not old enough to be included in that list, but my oldest piece of desktop software I always run on my main machine is GKrellm with BubbleFishyMon as system load monitor. http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
That doesn't always give correct readings depending on the chipset on your MB. There was a driver missing for like IT87 that returned voltage and temps to psensor. I finally gave up trying. gkrellm can monitor cpu, and many other things. You can add what you want. Source: over 1 year ago
Gkrellm was not really part of GNOME or KDE, but it was one of the best tools and there was recently talk about porting it to modern GTK releases. Source: almost 2 years ago
OP: Another option is GKrellM. It has not been updated in a couple of years, but it still appears in Software Manager. It should work with the current versions of LM. I used it for a while on LM 17.2 because I wanted a desktop system monitor and I was too lazy to mess with Conky - I stopped using it when I moved to LM 18.1 and eliminated eye candy. Http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/. Source: over 2 years ago
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