Conky is a Linux system monitor tool using X Windows. Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail in-boxes, Linux updates, runs many popular music players, and much more.

In this posting, I show how I implemented my plans to build my custom made Linux system. I review where I deviated from my plans, and give some of the details on software configuration.