# brndnmtthws/conky

Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too

Repository: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/conky
Homepage: https://conky.cc
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: conky, imlib2, cairo, lua, c-plus-plus, system-monitoring, linux, wayland
Last push: 2026-08-07T17:25:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 77, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4998, "days_push": 26, "days_rel": 76, "gap_med": 32, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8485, forks 666 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.096869+00:00)

## What it is
Conky is a lightweight, highly configurable system monitor that displays system statistics and other information directly on your desktop. It supports X11 and Wayland, offers 300+ built-in objects, and can be extended with Lua, Imlib2, and Cairo.

## Use cases
- display cpu and memory usage on my linux desktop
- show a system stats widget on wayland
- monitor network traffic and disk usage in real time
- customize a desktop hud with lua scripts
- show music player info like mpd on my desktop
- lightweight alternative to heavy system monitors

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight, scriptable desktop system monitor on Linux/BSD/macOS
- you need customizable widgets with Lua, Cairo, or Imlib2 drawing
- you want stats output to console, file, or HTTP instead of a GUI

## When to avoid
- you need full-featured graphical dashboards with charts and alerting
- you require a cross-platform monitor with first-class Windows support
- you want a point-and-click monitoring tool without config-file editing

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, gui, terminal-ui
- domain: monitoring, desktop-applications, operating-systems, developer-tools
- platform: bsd, cross-platform
- tags: system-monitor, wayland, x11, lua-scripting, desktop-widget, cairo, imlib2, system-stats, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- brndnmtthws/conky (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.096869+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:26:50.298213+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.096869+00:00, sha b77db50922be)
  - homepage: https://conky.cc (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:54.460007+00:00, sha b3760f795059)
  - site_page: https://conky.cc/documents/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:54.462451+00:00, sha 0bd3fef8fc52)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.