Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

[Jeff Friedman]

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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