Just so I don’t forget, this is the conky config I’ve been using for the minimalistic setup in recent screenshots. I’m dropping conky again for reasons indecipherable even to me, but I like this design and I might come back to it one day.

double_buffer yes
update_interval 3.0
background yes

own_window no

use_xft yes
override_utf8_locale no
xftfont Dejavu Sans:size=9
xftalpha 0.8
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
uppercase no
use_spacer no

border_margin 9
border_width 0

default_color white
default_outline_color black

alignment bottom_left
gap_x 9
gap_y 9

TEXT
${font Dejavu Sans:bold:size=24}${time %H:%M}${font}
${stippled_hr}
${nodename} | ${kernel} | ${addr eth0} | cpu ${cpu}% | ram ${memperc}%

Good enough for now. Exceedingly short, light and fast. I’ll want that again someday in the future.