Why not install gkrellm it is great and does pretty much was Conky does.
On 30 Nov 2013, at 20:59, Jeff Friedman <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks good, Craig. I will have a look into htop. > > thanks! > Jeff > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Craig Treleaven <[email protected]> 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: [email protected], [email protected] > > 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:[email protected]>[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/ > > <http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php>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 > > > -- > -- > Craig Treleaven, CA -- Clearview Consulting > (905) 829-2054 [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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