conky-horizontal

A liquid-glass system bar for Conky

Five panels, one bar

widget.lua · single file · Lua + Cairo

A single-file, all-Lua/Cairo horizontal system monitor for Conky, styled after real liquid glass — layered gradients, a specular highlight, and a soft frosted tint over your wallpaper. Date & time, updates, CPU, RAM, storage and network, all in one wide strip across the top of the screen.

Time & Updates

Clock, date, hostname, and uptime. Pacman (checkupdates) plus optional AUR and Flatpak counts, each stacked on its own line.

CPU

Live load graph that shifts green → yellow → red with load. Frequency and temperature straight from /sys/class/hwmon — no lm_sensors needed. Top 5 processes.

RAM

Usage bar with used/total, plus the top 5 processes by memory.

Storage

Usage bars for / and /home, with used/size shown alongside each.

Network

Live up/down speed and session totals, with side-by-side auto-scaling graphs — each capped at its own configurable MB/s ceiling.

Quick install

# clone into your Conky config directory
$ git clone https://github.com/wim66/conky-horizontal.git ~/.conky/conky-horizontal
$ cd ~/.conky/conky-horizontal

# edit CFG in widget.lua — at minimum, set network_iface
$ conky -c conky.conf

Per-graph settings

Height, color, fill/line opacity, and history length are configurable independently for the CPU, download, and upload graphs.

Optional logo

Drop in a logo.png, set its x/y and a height — width follows the image's own aspect ratio automatically.

Two files to sync

conky.conf handles the window; widget.lua handles everything else — layout, drawing, data, caching.