How to Customize Linux Desktop

[S.B.G]

I'm looking for some help on how to customize my Linux desktop. Specifically, how do I add all of the telemetry type of stuff as shown in this image. It looks a lot like what Geektool does for macOS.

I imagine there might be several packages or methods to accomplish this, so any help or direction would be appreciated.

I'm using KDE Neon which is built on the Ubuntu kernel.

 

[Weaselboy]

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky

Is it maybe Conky?

 

[S.B.G]

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky

Is it maybe Conky?

Last night I went back to the Twitter thread where I found that photo and discovered that it is using i3, a window tiling app. https://i3wm.org/

I haven't had time to try it out though and hopefully I will this weekend. I'm going to check out that link you gave too. Thanks!

 

[S.B.G]

Well I finally figured out how to install i3 and load it. I'm so stupid. But, in my defense I couldn't easily find in their extensive documentation how to do that. Had to search it on the Internet.

Just had to run the command

~$sudo apt install i3

Its the same command to install just about anything on Linux

Then, and here is what I couldn't figure out for a short while is that you log out of your session, then log back in but before you do that, you click the cog next to your login name/password and in the drop-down select your window environment such as Ubuntu, Gnome or i3.

Now to spend some time figuring out how to setup and use i3 in a way that I want.