Looks good, Craig. I will have a look into htop. thanks! Jeff
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@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: c...@macports.org, openmaintai...@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:c...@macports.org> >> c...@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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users >> > > > -- > -- > Craig Treleaven, CA -- Clearview Consulting > (905) 829-2054 ctrelea...@cogeco.ca >
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