Conky is a lightweight and powerful software that allows you to display real-time information about your system’s status directly on your Raspberry Pi desktop. Conky can show a wide range of statistics, such as CPU usage, memory (RAM), disk space, temperature, network usage, time, and much more.

Main Features

  • Hardware monitoring: Displays real-time data on CPU, memory, disk space, Raspberry Pi temperature, and more.

  • Advanced customization: You can adjust the appearance, position, and update frequency of the displayed information.

  • Minimal resource consumption: Conky runs very lightly, making it ideal for systems like the Raspberry Pi where resources are limited.

Installation

To install the Conky emulator on the Raspberry Pi, we will use an application manager called Pi-app, which allows you to install all kinds of software on your device. You can download it using the following link:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Once the link is downloaded, you can click on the icon that appears on your desktop. You will need to confirm that you want to run the file:

Once the manager is installed, you will need to look for Conky under All Apps:

Once found, all that’s left is to install Conky:

Here is the installation process:

Once installed, a menu appears showing the management of the CPU, RAM memory, as well as the remaining space on your hard drive.

You will also see the tasks that are using the most resources on your computer, along with the status of your internet connection: