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How to configure Conky with a GUI-based Conky config tool

Conky is a light-weight system monitor for X, which displays a variety of information on your desktop. Conky is highly configurable program which can monitor various time-varying system properties such as CPU load/temperature, free memory, free disk space, battery status, network traffic, etc. Conky consumes little system resources because it renders information within a desktop theme instead of using separate widget toolkits.

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