This  is  the  last screenshot of my desktop to show "graphical system
 information" (the little CPU bar at the bottom):

 https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2010-10-06--awesome3-siv2-levels-of-detail.jpg

 Before that, I used a more complex setup. Stuff like Conky or  widgets
 for the Xfce panel.

 Note  that  the  screenshot is from 2010. That was six years ago. Ever
 since then, I only  had  "text  system  information",  like  the  load
 indicator  or  the  amount of used memory (both in the status bar, top
 right):

 https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2013-11-12--dwm-green-revamp.png

 Long story short: A very minimalistic way of monitoring the status  of
 your system.

 Last weekend, I started hacking on "infofeld":

 https://github.com/vain/infofeld

 That's  a  set of short scripts which are to be run periodically (like
 once a second). They track some basic metrics about your  system.  CPU
 usage, load, memory usage, network usage, ... Each script then creates
 a little image which is finally shown in bevelbar:

 https://github.com/vain/bevelbar

 I chose farbfeld as an exchange format because it's very easy to write
 and read.

 I  really like those little info graphics. I like to know what's going
 on. It's strange that I could live without it for so long:

 https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2016-08-14--katriawm-bevelbar-infofeld.png

 I also totally love "bevels". That's just how a computer interface has
 to  look  like. That modern "material" design where everything is flat
 and you have no idea where a GUI item ends and another one begins  ...
 that's not for me.

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