No matter how much you change your desktop background image and switch distro themes, staring at the same computer’s screen day in and day out can become humdrum. Conky can be used to decorate the ...

Conky is pretty old (though not as old as GKrellM), and someone else could probably give you a more technical description than I can. It's a (mostly) text based monitoring tool that is hugely (almost ...

Topping off our fascination with Linux desktop monitor Conky this week, here's a remarkable setup on Ubuntu that delivers Gmail counts, Yahoo weather with graphics and system stats, all with an eye ...