Thanks to this article I became aware of how flexible conky's Lua configuration format is - it is effectively a Lua script. This opens almost endless new possibilities that go far beyond mere modularisation. For example, I could grab values from the system and design my conky accordingly, like I hav.....

Global weather In English, Finnish or Swedish from the Finnish Metereological Institute You can put the forecast on your desktop via conky, where it is updated periodically, or bind it to a hotkey to see it in its own window. You can even use the script separately to produce plain text output to be.....