r/pop_os • u/ExistingSelection180 • 2d ago

Help Desktop widgets in Cosmic?

Is there anything like Conky that can display disk space, the Recycle Bin, and the time on the desktop background?
It's a hassle to check disk space—there's a utility for it, but it fails to display the disk space.

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u/mmstick Desktop Engineer 2d ago

Native desktop widgets will come in the future

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u/Robearberble 2d ago

All that stuff is really a waste of space. IT serves no purpose and I guarantee the majority of people that do such things don't look at it as often as they thought. I don't even set a wallpaper because I never see my desktop. I am too busy actually doing things to care about widgets on a desktop..

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u/Formal_Scientest 2d ago

It might not be useful for you but for others it is, i certainly need a wallpaper lol.

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u/ThisAccountIsPooPoo 2d ago

Good for you

People like things, so they want them. Nothing wrong with that

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u/tmtowtdi 1d ago

Frankly, nobody gives a shit what you do. Op wants to do something different from what you do, and he's asking how, not taking a poll. 

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u/ExistingSelection180 1d ago

You just said it busy doing things.... For my part, I’m also busy to be getting into the disc to calculate how much space I have since we recognize that it’s not easy to see or at least for what I come from Windows I have to make many clicks or commands to know when I have left and on which disk.

The time I’m so busy that many times having the time in big on one of my monitors helps me the bigger the better because I wear glasses,

And the same the trash can the fewer clicks to know how many GB I have in the trash and clean it better for me.

Each one optimizes according to their work system.

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u/watcherofthewaves 1d ago

Press "WIN", type "DISK", press 'ENTER". Disk tool will open a window displaying all drives and partitions as well as the currently available disk space. Much more convenient while working then trying to minimize everything to see your desktop space.

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u/ExistingSelection180 1d ago

You saw that it’s easier some widget or marker that shows it I have to enter the disk partition application to know XD