Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

[Jeff Friedman]

I think gkrellm is just what I'm after.   Thanks, Tim.

Jeff


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Tim Haigh <timhaigh at mac.com> wrote:

> Why not install gkrellm  it is great and does pretty much was Conky does.
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> On 30 Nov 2013, at 20:59, Jeff Friedman <friedmanjeff1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Looks good, Craig.  I will have a look into htop.
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> thanks!
> Jeff
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> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>wrote:
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>> Another possibility is htop:
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>> $ port info htop
>> htop @0.8.2.2 (sysutils)
>> Variants:             universal
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>> Description:          This is htop, an interactive process viewer. It is
>> a text-mode application (for console or X terminals).
>> Homepage:             https://github.com/mklein-de/htop-osx
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>> Build Dependencies:   autoconf, automake, libtool
>> Library Dependencies: ncurses
>> Platforms:            darwin
>> License:              GPL-2
>> Maintainers:          cal at macports.org, openmaintainer at macports.org
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>> Craig
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>> At 3:27 PM +0000 11/30/13, Jeff Friedman wrote:
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>>> Thanks for the replies, folks.
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>>> I didn't realise that Conky wouldn't  be compatible with OS X.  I will,
>>> however, have a look at GeekTool.
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>>> Thanks again for being helpful.
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>>> Best wishes,
>>> Jeff
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>>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Clemens Lang <<mailto:cal at macports.org>
>>> cal at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:59:02AM +0000, Jeff Friedman wrote:
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>>>>  Let me know if you think this is possible.
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>>> Unfortunately I don't think writing a port for Conky will achieve what
>>> you expect it to.
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>>> First, "Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X", where "X"
>>> is the X window system. While Macs can run an X server using XQuartz
>>> they usually do so without a root window (i.e. they don't display a
>>> desktop background, but rather try to integrate with Mac OS X' window
>>> management). Conky however draws its statistics into the X root window,
>>> where you'll only be able to see them if you switch to XQuartz'
>>> full-screen mode using Cmd+Opt+A (if you have it enabled in XQuartz'
>>> preferences), which will hide all your standard OS X windows.
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>>> Second, there are only few standards for system monitoring and OS X and
>>> other BSD derivates are probably sufficiently different from Linux
>>> systems in this regard that some of Conky's statistics features might
>>> not even work on OS X, e.g. Conky might attempt to use the Linux method
>>> to read your current CPU usage or network traffic, which might just not
>>> work on OS X, or worse, crash the process.
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>>> Fortunately, there are alternatives to achieve the same on OS X, e.g.
>>> GeekTool:
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>>> <http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/>http://projects.
>>> tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
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>>> <http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php>http://
>>> projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php
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>>> HTH,
>>> --
>>> Clemens Lang
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