Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-02 Thread James Linder
On 03/12/2013, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing. I didn?t say iStat Menus. I said iStats Pro, which costs nothing. gkrellm is much more fun, customising, skinable and there are plugins. Cannot argue

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-02 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:03 PM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: On 03/12/2013, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-request@lists.macosforge.orgwrote: iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing. I didn?t say iStat Menus. I said iStats Pro, which costs nothing. gkrellm is much more

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Jeff Friedman
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,

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Christopher Jones
On 1 Dec 2013, at 10:39am, Jeff Friedman friedmanje...@gmail.com wrote: I think gkrellm is just what I'm after. Thanks, Tim. Indeed, its an excellent utility I’ve used for years on linux systems … On OSX though, I’ve tended to favour the iStatPro desktop widget. Does much the same

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Tim Haigh
iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing. gkrellm is much more fun, customising, skinable and there are plugins. On 1 Dec 2013, at 11:24, Christopher Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: On 1 Dec 2013, at 10:39am, Jeff Friedman friedmanje...@gmail.com wrote: I think

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi, On 1 Dec 2013, at 7:29pm, Tim Haigh timha...@mac.com wrote: iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing. I didn’t say iStat Menus. I said iStats Pro, which costs nothing. gkrellm is much more fun, customising, skinable and there are plugins. Cannot argue there. Chris

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.ukwrote: On 1 Dec 2013, at 7:29pm, Tim Haigh timha...@mac.com wrote: iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing. I didn’t say iStat Menus. I said iStats Pro, which costs nothing. Is that even maintained any

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, On 1 Dec 2013, at 09:02 pm, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: On 1 Dec 2013, at 7:29pm, Tim Haigh timha...@mac.com wrote: iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing. I didn’t say

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Chris Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.ukwrote: On 1 Dec 2013, at 09:02 pm, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: On 1 Dec 2013, at 7:29pm, Tim Haigh timha...@mac.com wrote:

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-01 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, On 1 Dec 2013, at 09:07 pm, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Chris Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: On 1 Dec 2013, at 09:02 pm, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Jones

Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-11-30 Thread Jeff Friedman
HI folks, Not sure if this is the correct way to go about asking for this and, if not, then I do apologise in advance but would there be any chance of seeing Conky on MacPorts? http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Let me know if you think this is possible. Best wishes, Jeff

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-11-30 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi, The correct way would be to create a Portfile yourself, and submit a trac ticket with it. See http://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.contributing.html If you don’t feel up to creating the port file yourself, you’ll need hope someone else finds the package interesting enough to do it

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-11-30 Thread Clemens Lang
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:59:02AM +, 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

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-11-30 Thread Jeff Friedman
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 c...@macports.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-11-30 Thread Craig Treleaven
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

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-11-30 Thread Jeff Friedman
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.cawrote: Another possibility is htop: $ port info htop htop @0.8.2.2 (sysutils) Variants: universal Description: This is htop, an

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-11-30 Thread Tim Haigh
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