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 <[email protected]> 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/ecrans.php > > HTH, > -- > Clemens Lang > >
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