Openbox
Conky: A Poweful Yet Simple System Monitor
Submitted by aravind on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 21:59
Conky is a simple yet very powerful system monitor that can directly write the output to the X server root window. It generally uses very less resources compared to other system monitor programs and hence it is ideally suited for light weight desktop environments such as OpenBox (my preferred desktop environment). Take a look at my customized conky monitor
One of the great things about conky is that one can easily customize it (as always with a lot of other Linux applications). The documentation is very clear and easy to understand. Take a look it to play with conky.
My Openbox Desktop
Submitted by aravind on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 19:22
Just wanted to share my desktop. I have been using openbox for a while. Openbox is a light weight window manager which uses a lot less resources such as memory and cpu compared to KDE or GNOME. As you can see from the screen shots below Openbox does not come with a panel or a desktop. There are lot of panels and desktops that can be used with Openbox but as you can see you really do not need them.
