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/ecrans.php HTH, -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
