Conky is a free, lightweight system monitor for X, Wayland (with caveats), and macOS that renders information on your desktop or outputs to the console, a file, or HTTP.
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Conky is available in most package managers (see Installation). For the latest release, use the AppImage or Nix flake.
Download from GitHub Releases (host runtime libraries may be required):
chmod +x ./conky-*.AppImage # make it executable
./conky-*.AppImage -C > ~/.conkyrc # create a default config
./conky-*.AppImage # runAvailable since v1.17.0 alongside the nixpkgs package:
{
inputs = {
conky.url = "github:brndnmtthws/conky";
};
}Use inputs.conky.packages.${system}.default (inputs.conky.packages.${system}.conky for <=v1.19.8), or pin a tag via github:brndnmtthws/conky?ref=refs/tags/v1.19.8.
- 300+ built-in objects: OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU, memory, disk,
top-like process stats, network), IMAP/POP3 mail, and music players (MPD, XMMS2, Audacious). - Widgets & interactivity: Text, progress bars, and graph widgets with custom fonts, colors, and mouse events.
- Extensibility: Custom scripts and Lua (tutorial) with Imlib2 and Cairo drawing bindings (Lua docs).
- Cross-platform: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and macOS, plus Docker images (
amd64,armv7,aarch64/armv8).
- Reference Documentation — config settings, objects, and Lua API
- Conky Wiki — Installation · Configuration Settings · Community Configs · FAQ
Bootstrap the toolchain with mise (see Contributing for guidelines):
mise install && mise run doctor
mise run configure && mise run build && mise run testLicensed under the GPLv3. Contributions are welcome (Contributing guide); consider sponsoring Conky's volunteer developers if you find it useful.
