Philip Webb posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:58:43 -0500 as excerpted:
> 230127 Michał Górny wrote:
>> # GKrellM and a variety of plugins.
>> # Removal on 2023-02-26. Bug #892251.
>> app-admin/gkrellm
[and plugins, etc.]
> Is there a recommended alternative ?
app-admin/conky
It's currently gtk3, but at least with lua-cairo enabled, X-only.
However, upstream is alive and wayland-native support is apparently in the
works (tho it has been some months since I last checked status), so
doesn't appear to be death-bed either.
I use it here, altho I wasn't satisfied with built-in only so learned lua
(designed for embedding, exactly what conky uses it for) and wrote my own
conky lua themes. Seems extensibility is mandatory for flexibility
(handling decent detail at readable size without going fullscreen) for
this sort of app, and I've learned the extensibility language of more than
one such app (RIP superkaramba!) as they've gone dead over the years, but
with conky alive and working on wayland-native support, hopefully it'll
stick around for awhile.
Meanwhile, email me privately if you're interested in a lua-based conky
theme that can handle for example per-thread user/nice/system/freq
(extensible to steal... if you're doing VMs) at "readble but not entire
screen" sizes with AMD's 64-core/128-thread threadripper in mind (tho I'm
still on an old 6-thread ATM so expanding that big likely has bugs to work
out), or just for general conky discussion/questions, if you want.
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