ArnoldLayne Sure. It's a handy little app called neofetch. It's included in the Solus repos, so you can try it just typing in a terminal:
sudo eopkg install neofetch
Or you could use the Solus Software Center to install it. Then you can "neofetch" by typing in a terminal, you guessed it, neofetch. You can see the options by neofetch --help. And, finally, you can manually change the output by editing your .config/neofetch/config.conf archive. Open your archive manager, navigate to your /home and push Ctrl+h to see your hidden files & directories, a .config directory is there, and follow the former route to the config.conf archive. It must be open just by double clicking it.
Ask if you need any more help. And enjoy! 😀

    ArnoldLayne ... And then there's Conky. Conky is the embedded, semi-transparent window at the top right displaying real-time information. Again, it's in the repos, just open terminal and type
    sudo eopkg install conky
    Typing conky in a terminal starts it for the session. If you want to have Conky at every session, go to Budgie Desktop Settings / Session / Autostart, and add Conky to it.
    Before trying the stock Conky config, I suggest you search some dotfiles in the Internet and find something that suits you. If mine seems OK to you, I'm more than willing to share the dotfile. 😉 Again, call for help if you need any!

        adurante
        well,
        1: you need to make your gnome or budgie panel permanently transparent
        2: then make a conky that is the same height and width as your panel ,and a suitable colour
        ive got:
        gap_x = 0,
        gap_y = 0,
        minimum_width = 2560, minimum_height = 27,
        maximum_width = 2560,
        own_window_colour = '#171E21',

        3: add the stuff you want and make sure they are positioned correctly in relation to your applets etc
        4: the graphics are the trickiest thing i guess, making them fit exactly inside the conky graphs, a good trick is to enable graph borders initially (and remove them when everything fits) as well as temporarily make the graphics red or pink or something so its easy to see them, then fiddle with the values until the graphics fit exactly.

        this example shows the position (-p) of the image i used for download speed, 157 means its positioned 157 pixels (i guess its pixels) from the left and 0 from the top, as well as size 35x21 (i dont think the size parameter is necessary if your image is already the right size)
        ${image /PATH/TO/graphbgdown.png -p 157,0 -s 35x21}

        it seems images need to be 1x1 pixel smaller than your conky graph to fit, my graphs are 36x22, so images are 35x21

        ive attached my download graph background as an example image

        just copying over my entire conky config wouldnt work very well, its spread over 7-8 different configs and set up especially for my machine, it would take an awful lot of fiddling with confusing things to make it work on your machine i think

        edit: i find it much easier to split the conky up into several configs, for example you can have RAM as a separate config, then you can move that around independently of the rest of the conky. to do that you ned to make a file called something like conky_startup and make it exacutable
        mine looks like:
        killall conky
        cd /PATH/TO/YOUR/CONKY_CONFIGS
        conky -c ./conky_ram -d &&
        conky -c ./conky_cpu -d &&
        etc...
        conky -c ./conky_net -d #&&

        (its important that the final entry does not have &&, ive commented it out in mine like: #&& )

        the rhythmbox conky looks like
        ${if_running rhythmbox}${font source code pro black:style=Bold:size=17}${voffset -8} ♫${voffset -4}${font dejavu Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${goto 35}${execi 3 /usr/bin/rhythmbox-client --no-start --no-present --print-playing-format "%ta - %tt"}${endif}

            alf Thank you very much! I was referring to conky, sorry if I've not been clear enough.
            If you can share the dotfile I would appreciate it, it looks so clean!!
            Thank you again

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                Lucien_Lachance thanks for all the information man. I'll have to try and get something like that set up over the weekend. Will probably take me a few weeks to tweak it to how I like but this will be a huge help.

                It may seem obvious but I would have never thought to overlay conky and the panel. I thought you were running some really dope applet haha

                    ArnoldLayne No worries. I didn't knew if you were refering to Neofetch or Conky, so there you had both. 🙂
                    And the dotfile is here: https://pastebin.com/6gdhnQi0 Is in fact a file I found before in this same thread (attribution is in the same code). I just commented out a lot of options and changed some things a bit. The inxi -C line, for instance, made my processor spike like, a lot. Later I'll clean the code and make my own tweaks. A lot of space is open because I usually like to add a handy reminder of keyboard shortcuts and terminal tips. I've got a very tweaked Arch/Openbox install with a much more complete Conky, so this is still a work in progress.
                    Don't forget to change things according to your system (Internet connection, Wifi or Ethernet, and your gear connection name...)
                    Anyway, there are plenty of dotfiles out there. Try some, tweak more and have a nice Conky!

                      adurante looking forward to seeing what you come up with, please post pics. might get some good ideas for mine as well 🙂

                          Lucien_Lachance Im actually feeling kinda inspired now to try and make an applet for it. This would be my first attempt at real programming rather than just data work so I wont promise anything haha

                            Justin I smiled to see you active. Right on. Sorry off topic.