eww VS conky

Compare eww vs conky and see what are their differences.

conky

Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too (by brndnmtthws)
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eww conky
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9,502 7,336
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8.8 9.3
22 days ago 2 days ago
Rust C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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eww

Posts with mentions or reviews of eww. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.
  • EWW – Linux Widget System allowing you to design custom desktop UI
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2024
  • Widgets: which are the alternatives?
    2 projects | /r/awesomewm | 23 Nov 2023
    I'm trying to get the most out of my OS (Arch with X11 and Awesomewm), but I'm stuck with the widgets. I would like to create/use some utilities like an interactive calendar, small TODO list, dropdown menu, etc. but using the awesomewm widgets is too difficult and limiting. I found eww but it seems as difficult as the former widgets.
  • eww fails to compile
    1 project | /r/Gentoo | 15 Oct 2023
    Reported and closed upstream: https://github.com/elkowar/eww/issues/712
  • How do I autostart Eww bar inside the hyprland.conf file?
    1 project | /r/hyprland | 8 Sep 2023
    The reason, why eww would not start, is because i compiled it myself with rustup according to the official documentation (https://elkowar.github.io/eww/) and not by the AUR. After installing it with the AUR it workes in Hyprland. So in conclustion: If you wanna use Eww on Hyprland, use the AUR method and not the method on the Docs!
  • Sway/workspace by Eww
    1 project | /r/swaywm | 30 Jun 2023
    Are you as mystified as me? I'll save you the google search: eww is Elkowars Wacky Widgets a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
  • Eww is hard :(
    1 project | /r/hyprland | 17 Jun 2023
    Well actually there is https://elkowar.github.io/eww. I used it to make my config and also looked at other configs.
  • changing profiles
    1 project | /r/hyprland | 11 Jun 2023
    I'm guessing one could use [eww](https://elkowar.github.io/eww/) to create buttons/widgets. And the buttons could dispatch commands to any of the wallpaper/theme changing applications to actually execute the change.
  • Get workspaces information (to integrate with Eww)?
    1 project | /r/xmonad | 9 Jun 2023
    I'd like to get informations from xmonad on all the currently active workspaces and which one is the current workspace. Possibly I'd like to format that information into a JSON object for better integration with Eww, which I'm using as a status bar.
  • How to get the groups in use via the Command-API
    1 project | /r/qtile | 2 Jun 2023
    Hi all, I'm trying to configure a bar with eww (https://github.com/elkowar/eww) and I' stuck getting the workspace widget to work.
  • calendar
    4 projects | /r/qtile | 26 May 2023
    No, as far as I know. I personally use eww and toggle a calendar when clicking on a time widget. I'm using the config in this repo

conky

Posts with mentions or reviews of conky. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing eww and conky you can also consider the following projects:

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.

neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

glava - GLava - OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer

Hyprland - Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

bumblebee-status - bumblebee-status is a modular, theme-able status line generator for the i3 window manager.

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

dotfiles-awesome - Configuration for the Awesome window manager

conky-manager2 - Fork of GUI for managing Conky widgets. Support added for latest conky config version, and works with Ubuntu 16-22, Mint 18-21 and more.

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