Displaying system information on Gnome 3 desktop

I am looking for some extension which will display all system information such as CPU usage, temperature, Internet usage, running processes etc.

I would like to see all of the output continuously updated on my desktop. I run Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with Gnome 3

I know there are Gnome 3 extensions, but most of them (at least what I checked) display only some information on the bar. I am looking for complete set of possible informations and displaying them as a desktop background

Does anyone know something like that?

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This conky tutorial is pretty good: Install Conky Lua On Ubuntu. It's quoted here to avoid link rot:

First of all we need to install conky, you can do that by:

sudo apt-get install conky

Secondly download conky-lua from here

Then, go to the directory where you have downloaded the Conky-lua zip file and extract it. All files will be extracted in a folder called Conky-lua.

Go to the folder and pick a file and extract it depending upon your distribution. As I use Ubuntu desktop, I extracted the file Conky ubuntu-lua.tar.gz.

This will be extracted in a folder called Conky ubuntu-lua. Go to the directory, find the file conkyrc, and rename it to .conkyrc. Make sure you have put the dot(.) at the beginning of the file.

Now, move the renamed file .conkyrc to your home directory. Hence, we have put the dot(.) at the beginning, this file will not be visible. To make sure this file is moved to the home directory, go to View -> Show Hidden files in your file manager.

Then, create a new folder called .conky in the home directory, and copy the other 2 files to this folder (new-ubuntu-logo.png and clock_rings.lua).

Now we have to mention the actual path of clock_rings.lua file in the .conkyrc file. Open the file .conkyrc in any text editor,

nano ~/.conkyrc

Find the line and change the path to the new one in the home folder.:

lua_load /~.lua/scripts/clock_rings.lua

And, change it to:

lua_load ~/.conky/clock_rings.lua

Save and close the file. We’re done. Open terminal and run conky using the following command:

conky -c ~/.conkyrc &

Now, look at your Ubuntu desktop. The conky-lua theme will be running and displaying all details such as date and time, usages of CPU, RAM, net, disk and swap etc.

(All images courtesy of )

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