A Minimal Configuration of Conky
Conky is what Vista's Sidebar should have been - customizable at every level so that I can count on using as much (or as little) of my resource pool as I would like. It's not a required function by any means, but anyone serious enough to be running some version of Linux is probably someone who refers constantly to some form of a task manager. The OOTB configuration provides basic system information and the list of hotkeys. Grabbing weather forecasts is a popular request, but I couldn't find many start-to-finish discussions that ended with a satisfied user and script. The few such ones that I found were outrageously complicated. If I wanted something that bloated, I'd just run Vista! Below is my own script, which shows a few basic system statistics and works with www.weather.com to grab current stats and forecasts for today and tomorrow. Note that in the evening, the forecast for today is no longer a valid entry on weather.com, so the script returns "N/A...