Conky on a tablet / smartphone?

[rubyFeedback]

Has anyone tried it? I hate working with my tablet. I was wondering whether I could not just replace the default UI or as an extra app with conky. Then I could have button-like features and display and stuff. I could write this on my desktop machine and then transfer to my tablet I suppose, but is this even possible? Has anyone tried to use conky via a tablet?

[Caellian]

You're looking for an intersection of people running postmarket OS or some other non-standard OS, and people using conky. It's very slim pickings.

There are probably <50 people in the world who tried it the right way, but they're not here to answer.

Other than that no. Conky uses x11 which isn't available on Android. Assuming you've installed linux on the phone (with Xorg), conky should run the same as it would on desktop. But this is far from something it makes sense to waste several days, if not months, of time on unless you're professionally making kiosks (e.g. Paul Craig) and your process is streamlined enough to try random stuff like that.

As phones are extremely locked down these days, it feels uncanny being able to run a desktop app on your phone because these ecosystems don't overlap at all - and stuff like ReactNative doesn't count in my book because they can still only interact with system APIs.

There's also the bad way: you could install X11 on termux and run conky that way - never tried it.