I rediscovered the joys of Conky today, and consequently wasted most of the afternoon tinkering with configuration files. For those of you who don’t know but care, and even you who don’t know and don’t care, but not you who know and care, or know and don’t care (there, I think that exhausts all the possibilities), Conky is a system monitoring application for Linux and BSD. What makes it special is that it has literally (I counted them) a zillion built-in variables that you can monitor, and you can use the highly cryptic but also highly awesome .conkyrc file to customize how you want to display all the stuff. I think that after 5 hours of tinkering I got a semi-cool looking result.
I was going to put the actual configuration here in case somebody wanted to copy something, but it ended up looking like a total mess. 
If you want more information on conky, here’s their website
