Cysboard an interesting alternative to conky

Here in the blog we have talked repeatedly about Conky, the tool that allows us to monitor our system and add visual objects that give a personalized touch to our desktop. This time we want to talk to you about Cysboard which is a pretty alternative to Conky, with certain very interesting peculiarities.

What is Cysboard?

How to install and use Cysboard?

The installation and subsequent use of Cysboard is quite simple, in the app github There is a table with the identifiers that represent the information of the system, in addition a small example is shown with the basic html structure to make a topic.

To install the application we must follow the following steps:

• We must have installed the necessary dependencies that are cmake> = 3.1 and gcc> = 5.4.
• Clone the official repository of the tool
  $ git clone https://github.com/mike168m/Cysboard.git
• Go to main directory and compile

  $ cd Cysboard / $ mkdir build $ cmake. $ make

• Run cysboard

To create our own themes for cysboard we must follow the steps indicated by its developer:

1. Create a file for the theme called main.html in ~ / .config / cysboard /.
2. Add the html code with any of the identifiers listed in the table found on your github that supplies the system information.
3. Run cysboard.

In case we do not want to create a theme, the tool comes preloaded with some themes that run by default.

Without a doubt, this is a very interesting alternative to conky, which with basic knowledge of html and css can achieve a very pleasant visual finish and provide all the necessary information to have our operating system monitored.