I think gkrellm is just what I'm after. Thanks, Tim. Jeff
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Tim Haigh <timha...@mac.com> wrote: > Why not install gkrellm it is great and does pretty much was Conky does. > > > > > > > On 30 Nov 2013, at 20:59, Jeff Friedman <friedmanje...@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 <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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > >
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