wim66/conky-system-redone-v2

This project is a desktop system monitor widget for Linux, built on top of a tool called Conky. Conky is a popular program that shows a small overlay on your desktop with information like CPU usage, memory, and the time. Rather than using Conky's plain text and bar displays, this project redraws everything from scratch using a graphics library called Cairo, giving it a soft, semi-transparent, glass-like look instead of the older text-based style. The main panel displays your distro name, kernel version, uptime, and CPU model, along with live CPU load and temperature, memory usage, storage space for your root drive and home folder if it is separate, network speed for a chosen network interface, the top six processes by CPU use, a count of pending software updates, and the current date and time. Two optional add-on modules sit on top of that main panel: one draws CPU, memory, and disk usage as bar indicators, and the other draws CPU load and network activity as line graphs over time, and each of these comes in two visual styles you can pick between. It was built and tested on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, but the README states there is nothing tied specifically to that setup, so it should work on any Linux system where Conky is compiled with Lua and Cairo support. Getting it running involves cloning the repository, editing a single configuration table near the top of the main script to set your network interface and any visual preferences, then launching it either directly through Conky or with an included script that cleanly restarts it. Optional command line tools are used for extra features like update counts, but the widget quietly skips any of them that are not installed on your system.