A very simple alternative to conky
With
Impatience with conky’s inability to handle basic unicode or emoji characters.
Most of what I want displayed is already generated by external scripts (mostly bash) and I need a simple plaintext viewer embedded in my desktop that can be periodically updated.
I have lived with alternative approaches, such as periodically generating a wallpaper with the text annotated via ImageMagick. However this is a bit hacky and heaavy on resources.
The original and best. Despite my above complaint, Conky really is the Swiss Army Knife for this kind of thing
This is my first stab at the problem. Comments and suggestions welcome.