puos claro... que esto es lunix, no windows ...
el "programa" es
conky y lee un script que es el que hace que represente "las cosas" de una u otra manera
el script esta situado en /etc/conky y se llama conky.conf ( que original no ???

) por lo que , como ya sabrás , necesitas permisos de root para modificarlo
mi script es este , cogido " de por ahí" y modificado un poco para ponerlo a mi gusto

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# .conkyrc - Edited from various examples compiled from the web
# Used by Joel Davila [teoten.wordpress.com] on Fedora 9
# --- Window Layout & Options --- #
own_window yes
own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
use_spacer right
use_xft yes
#alignment bottom_right
alignment top_right
gap_x 5
gap_y 200
# --- Colours, Sizes, Fonts & Margins --- #
update_interval 2.0
maximum_width 250
stippled_borders 3
border_margin 9
border_width 10
default_color grey
# --- Text --- #
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
font Monospace:size=8:weight=bold
uppercase no
draw_shades yes
TEXT
${color orange}SYSTEM INFORMATION ${hr 2}$color
${color white}${time %A},${time %e} ${time %B} ${time %G}${alignr}${time %H:%M:%S}
${color white}Machine$color $nodename ${alignr}${color white}Uptime$color $uptime
${color white}Kernel$color $kernel ${alignr}${color white}Arch$color $machine
${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${font Arial:bold:size=8}${color #ff9999}${execi 99999 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" -m1 | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d" " -f2- | sed 's#Processor ##'}$font$color
${color white}Freq:$color ${execi 20 sensors |grep "Core0 Temp" | cut -d" " -f4}$font$color$alignr${freq_g 2}GHz ${color #c0ff3e}${execi 20 sensors |grep "Core1 Temp" | cut -d" " -f4} $color${alignr}${color white}Processes:$color $running_processes/ $processes
${cpugraph cpu1 25,250 000000 ff6600 }
${color #ff6600}${cpubar cpu1 3,250} ${color #cc0033}$color
${color orange}TOP 5 PROCESSES ${hr 2}$color
${color #ff9999}NAME PID CPU MEM
${color #ffff99}1. ${top name 1}${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}$color
2. ${top name 2}${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
3. ${top name 3}${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
4. ${top name 4}${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
5. ${top name 5}${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
${color orange}MEMORY & SWAP ${hr 2}$color
${color white}RAM$color $memperc% ${membar 6}$color
${color white}Swap$color $swapperc% ${swapbar 6}$color
${color orange}DRIVES - FREE SPACE ${hr 2}$color
${color white}Sistema$color ${fs_free_perc /}%$alignr${fs_free /}/ ${fs_size /}
${fs_bar 3 /}$color
${color orange}DRIVES - FREE SPACE ${hr 2}$color
${color white}home$color ${fs_free_perc /home}%$alignr${fs_free /home}/ ${fs_size /home}
${fs_bar 3 /home}$color
${color orange}DRIVES - FREE SPACE ${hr 2}$color
${color white}datos320$color ${fs_free_perc /media&datos320}%$alignr${fs_free /media/datos320}/ ${fs_size /media/datos320}
${fs_bar 3 /media/datos320}$color
${color orange}DRIVES - FREE SPACE ${hr 2}$color
${color white}datos1TB$color ${fs_free_perc /media/datos1TB}%$alignr${fs_free /media/datos1TB}/ ${fs_size /media/datos1TB}
${fs_bar 3 /media/datos1TB}$color
${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
${color white}Down:$color ${downspeed eth0} KB/s${alignr}${color white}Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} KB/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,120 000000 00ff00} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 25,120 000000 ff0000}$color
${hr 2}
tampoco hace falta ser un gurú para modificarlo... si lo he hecho yo, puede hacerlo cualquiera