Editando el archivo .conkyrc (Conky)

Conky es un Light-Weight System Monitor, muestra informacion de tu equipo en el escritorio, la ultima version estable es 1.6.1 y puede ser ocupado en Linux y BSD (freeBSD, openBSD) bajo licencia GPL este es mi archivo de configuracion, muestra solo lo mas tipico como nombre de host, version de kernel, procesos corriendo, temperaturas, rpm del ventilador, y espacio ocupado en discos, es posible agregar mas cosas como mail inbox, listas de reproduccion, clima etc..

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font Sans:size=8
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0.9
update_interval 3.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer no
minimum_size 270 5
maximum_width 270
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color green
alignment top_right
gap_x 20
gap_y 35
no_buffers yes
cpu_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale no
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

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TEXT
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
SYSTEM
Hostname: $alignr$nodename
Kernel: $alignr$kernel
Uptime: $alignr$uptime
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
AMD Sempron / Arch:$machine
CPU: ${alignr}${freq} MHz
Processes: ${alignr} $processes ($running_processes running)
Load: ${alignr} $loadavg
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
Networking
ip wlan0: ${addr wlan0}
ip eth0: ${addr eth0}
Down ${downspeed wlan0} k/s ${alignr}Up ${upspeed wlan0} k/s
${downspeedgraph wlan0 25,135 6600ff 9933ff} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 25,135 6600ff
9933ff}
Total ${totaldown wlan0} ${alignr}Total ${totalup wlan0}
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
CPU:${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar 4 cpu1}
${cpugraph cpu1 6600ff 9933ff}
M/B Temp: ${execi 1 sensors grep -A 0 'M/B Temp' cut -c15-16}.0C
CPU Temp: ${execi 2 sensors grep -A 0 'CPU Temp' cut -c13-16}C
AGP Temp: ${execi 3 sensors grep -A 0 'temp3' cut -c13-16}C
FAN Speed ${execi 4 sensors grep -A 0 'fan1' cut -c10-16}RPM
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
Ram ${alignr}$mem / $memmax ($memperc%)
${membar 4}
swap ${alignr}$swap / $swapmax ($swapperc%)
${swapbar 4}
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
FILESYSTEM
root: ${fs_used /} ${fs_size /} ${fs_free /} free
${fs_bar 4 /}
home: ${fs_used /home} ${fs_size /home} ${fs_free /home} free
${fs_bar 4 /home}
boot: ${fs_used /boot} ${fs_size /boot} ${fs_free /boot} free
${fs_bar 4 /boot}
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
Highest CPU $alignr PID CPU% MEM%
${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color 9933ff}${hr 1}${color}
${color B6BED7}
Highest MEM $alignr PID CPU% MEM%
${top_mem name 1} $alignr ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${top_mem name 2} $alignr ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${top_mem name 3} $alignr ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}

El codigo es muy sencillo y en Internet hay muchos ejemplos
sitio oficial: http://conky.sourceforge.net

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se vienen unas cuantas publicaciones de codigos
config. de conky, fluxbox, mas o menos estará todo relacionado con Ubuntu