CLI Magic: Lightweight Conky is a system monitor powerhouse
Conky is a lightweight system monitor that provides essential information in an easy-to-understand, highly customizable interface. The software is a fork of TORSMO, which is no longer maintained. Conky monitors your CPU usage, running processes, memory, and swap usage, and other system information, and displays the information as text or as a graph.
Debian and Fedora users can use apt-get and yum respectively to install Conky. A source tarball is also available.
Before you start the program, you need to have a .conkyrc file, which contains all the settings that control the behaviour and appearance of Conky. Extract conkyrc.sample from /usr/share/doc/conky to your home directory and rename it .conkyrc with a command like gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/conky/example/conkyrc.sample.gz > ~/.conkyrc.
To run Conky, type conky in a console and press Enter. Don't panic if you don't see anything -- Conky sets up its display in the root window. If you minimize all open windows, you'll find Conky sitting pretty on your desktop.
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