Remember my quest to the holy “window manager“? I ended it up with FVWM…

Wanting a non intrusive but though useful menu-start-status-pager-…-bar, I first used Xosview to display a nice CPU graph, but I still wanted some info abut network up&down links (and Memory and HD usage as a bonus)…

So let me introduce conky:

Conky is a very light-weight system monitor, you can consider it as a torsmo enhancement: you can do much much more with it. Beautiful graphs, various resource monitoring, mail check, …

And if you use FVWM, you can “swallow” it easily in any button, like I did. Of course, I’ve chosen for a very simple setup, giving me the information if find vital 🙂