Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

[Tim Haigh]

iStat Menus costs $16  where as gkrellm costs nothing.

gkrellm is much more fun, customising, skinable and there are plugins.

 



On 1 Dec 2013, at 11:24, Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On 1 Dec 2013, at 10:39am, Jeff Friedman <friedmanjeff1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think gkrellm is just what I'm after.   Thanks, Tim.  
> 
> Indeed, its an excellent utility I’ve used for years on linux systems …
> 
> On OSX though, I’ve tended to favour the iStatPro desktop widget. Does much the same thing...
> 
>> 
>> 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:
>> 
>>> Looks good, Craig.  I will have a look into htop.  
>>> 
>>> thanks!
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>> Another possibility is htop:
>>> 
>>> $ port info htop
>>> htop @0.8.2.2 (sysutils)
>>> Variants:             universal
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> Build Dependencies:   autoconf, automake, libtool
>>> Library Dependencies: ncurses
>>> Platforms:            darwin
>>> License:              GPL-2
>>> Maintainers:          cal at macports.org, openmaintainer at macports.org
>>> 
>>> Craig
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At 3:27 PM +0000 11/30/13, Jeff Friedman wrote:
>>> Thanks for the replies, folks.
>>> 
>>> I didn't realise that Conky wouldn't  be compatible with OS X.  I will, however, have a look at GeekTool.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again for being helpful.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Clemens Lang <<mailto:cal at macports.org>cal at macports.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:59:02AM +0000, Jeff Friedman wrote:
>>>  Let me know if you think this is possible.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately I don't think writing a port for Conky will achieve what
>>> you expect it to.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Fortunately, there are alternatives to achieve the same on OS X, e.g.
>>> GeekTool:
>>> 
>>> <http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/>http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
>>> 
>>> <http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php>http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> --
>>> Clemens Lang
>>> 
>>> 
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