Conky is a lightweight system monitoring tool that will help monitor the system parameters. I will explain the configuration as used on my OpenBSD machine. Installation Run the pkg_add to install the conky pkg_add conky Choose the version with no xmms2 and with x11 Add the line for conky in the .xinitrc file in your home directory to start it in background. conky & If you start X, your should see a default conky window. Basics Conky configuration file is split into two sections. One before the “TEXT” line and one after it. The first section is used to define default values and set the configuration.