Conky es un monitor de sistema ligero capaz de integrarse en el escritorio sin necesidad de tener activado el composite.
Para configurarlo se hace con el archivo ~/.conkyr
Aquí dejo mi archivo de config:
# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
#
# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
#
# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
#
# Please see COPYING for details
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
# Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# $Id: conky.conf 990 2007-11-22 19:38:17Z pkovacs $
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color black
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades yes
font 6×10
gap_x 5 # espacio en x del borde del monitor # para transparente
#gap_y 35 # espacio en y del borde del monitor # para transparente
gap_y 5 # espacio en y del borde del monitor # para transparente # sin barra de arriba
#ap_x 20 # para normal
#ap_y 60 # para normal
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
own_window yes
#own_window_class Conky # fondo negro
own_window_transparent yes # fondo transparente
own_window_type override # marco de ventana transparente
#own_window_type normal # marco de ventanas normal
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 3.0
uppercase no
use_spacer no
TEXT
${color grey}Tiempo encendido:$color $uptime
$nodename – $sysname $kernel en $machine
$hr
${color grey}CPU Usado:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Procesos:$color $processes ${color grey}Corriendo:$color $running_processes
${color grey}Frecuencia (in MHz):$color $freq ${color grey}(in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usada:$color $mem/$memmax – $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usada:$color $swap/$swapmax – $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}Sistema de archivos:
${color grey}Libre en /: $color${fs_free /} de ${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}Libre en /home: $color${fs_free /home} de ${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar 6 /home}
${color grey}Networking:
Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} k/s${color grey} – Down:$color ${downspeed eth0} k/s
$hr
${color grey}Name PID CPU% MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
