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.