Tuesday, 15. July 2008, 21:05:44
Conky is a is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop with GPL license and it is quite fun to play with. After playing with it for a few months, and getting bored, it is thanks to
Priyadi that I now I know it can be used also as wallpaper. Silly me...

Take a peek with new window/tab :

Since it is running on BSD and Linux, try check the package manager first. Maybe it is already there waiting for single click and go.
And here is the conkyconfig and the
Wallpaper that I use.

Oh, in case someone are too lazy to RTFM, here is the path that need to smack-up,
/home/user/.conkyrc
# -*- conf -*-
#
# ~/.conkyrc - Conky configuration file
#
# By Henrik Brix Andersen
#
# do not fork to background
background no
# font settings
use_xft yes
font monospace-10
uppercase no
# update every 3 secs
update_interval 10
# stay running forever
total_run_times 0
# draw to root window
own_window yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
# avoid flickering
double_buffer yes
# size
minimum_size 1400 1050
maximum_width 1400
# position
alignment top_left
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
# colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
color0 000000
color1 144556
color2 33b0dc
# borders
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 0
border_margin 0
border_width 0
# shades
draw_shades yes
# outline
draw_outline no
# spacer
use_spacer none
# buffers
no_buffers yes
# sampling
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
TEXT
${voffset 220}${offset 45}${color2}CPU
${offset 45}$color1 Freq: $color2$freq MHz$color1 Temp:$color2 $acpitemp C$color1 Togel= $color2$freq$acpitemp
${offset 45}$color1 Load: $color2$cpu% ${cpubar cpu0 6,223}
${offset 45}$color1 ${cpugraph cpu0 24,300 000000 33b0dc}
${voffset -300}${offset 120}${color2}Ethernet (eth0)
${offset 120}$color1 IP: $color2${addr eth0} ${color #144556}
${offset 120}$color1 Down: $color2${downspeed eth0} kb/s $color1 Up:$color2 ${upspeed em0} kb/s
${offset 120}$color1 ${downspeedgraph eth0 12,300 000000 33b0dc}
${offset 120}${voffset -3}$color1 ${upspeedgraph eth0 12,300 000000 33b0dc}
${voffset 400}${offset 45}${color2}Wireless (ath0)
${offset 45}$color1 IP: $color2${addr ath0} ${color #144556}
${offset 45}$color1 SSID: $color2${wireless_essid ath0} ${color #144556}
${offset 45}$color1 Bitrate: $color2${wireless_bitrate ath0} ${color #144556}
${offset 45}$color1 Quality: $color2${wireless_link_qual_perc ath0} ${wireless_link_bar 6,195 ath0} ${color #144556}
${offset 45}$color1 Down: $color2${downspeed ath0} kb/s $color1 Up:$color2 ${upspeed ath0} kb/s
${offset 45}$color1 ${downspeedgraph ath0 12,300 000000 33b0dc}
${offset 45}${voffset -3}$color1 ${upspeedgraph ath0 12,300 000000 33b0dc}
${voffset -300}${offset 1080}${color2}Power
${offset 1080}$color1 $acpiacadapter
${offset 1080}$color1 $battery $battery_time
${voffset +400}${offset 790}${color2}Disk
${offset 790}$color1 I/O:$color2 $diskio
${offset 790}$color1 ${diskiograph 24,300 000000 33b0dc}
${voffset -300}${offset 950}${color2}Memory
${offset 850}$color1 RAM: $color2$mem ($memperc%) ${membar 6,200}
${offset 850}$color1 Swap: $color2$swap ($swapperc%) ${swapbar 6,200}
${voffset -250}${offset 200}${color2}System
${offset 200}$color1 $nodename Linux $kernel $machine
${offset 200}$color1 Uptime:$color2 $uptime $color1 Load:$color2 $loadavg