...like gkrellm meets centerim.

I know about lm-sensors, htop, hddtemp, and the various individual apps that show a snapshot of their part of the system at that time, but that's several apps/several consoles and I have to re-run them.

I like gkrellm, it supplies all the info I need, but it's usually buried under other windows, whereas I always have a terminal going (usually 2, in tabs) and visible on my 2nd monitor. What I would like is something not necessarily real-time (I have my gkrellm set to update every 2 seconds) but it would take output from lm-sensors and hddtemp, likely /proc/cpuinfo as well and display it in console in a manner similar to gkrellm, only without the graphics of course. BSD has something called lmmon but there doesn't seem to be a Linux port.

Any ideas?

Conky?

Never realized that could run in terminal; every howto I've seen has you doctoring it all up so it can basically be a transparent gkrellm on a GUI desktop...again, not to say anything negative about gkrellm, it does a good job, I just happen to want something that runs in terminal.

Of course now the hunt is on to see if I'm the only person who has tried this, because there's a lot of configuring possible with this thing.