Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

[Tim Haigh]

Why not install gkrellm  it is great and does pretty much was Conky does.






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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