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“By default it displays the uptime, system CPU operating
frequency, the number of running processes, the usage for RAM,
swap, and CPU, hard drive space used, networking throughput, and
the top four CPU-consuming processes.

“A few nice tweaks to the defaults include setting the following
options in ~/.conkyrc:

double_buffer yes
own_window_transparent yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono_size=10

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