Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. Since it's original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from it's predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in it's own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display the output from stdout. To enable lua scripting engine support, you will need lua, imlib2, and tolua++, and run this script like this: LUA=yes ./conky.SlackBuild