On Saturday, 28 January 2023 08:05:47 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:20:03 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Second, if no one takes it over, what could be used in its place? I'll > > be honest, I don't know of anything that could replace it but I've never > > thought about looking either. I'm looking into app-admin category but > > don't see anything obvious to replace it. > > The only thing I've found that comes close is app-admin/conky - it's nice > but a bit awkward to set up. The last time I troed it was a few years ago > and there was the odd issue so I went back to GkrellM.
I haven't looked for a replacement of gkrellms for some years now. At the time I was trying out different desktops and gkrellms was having some problems integrating with some of them. I've tried conky and have seen/tried Desktop Info, wxWidgets, Übersicht and even xrootwindow. For my needs no other offering comes remotely close to the gkrellms in terms of helping me with a single glance to spot issues with my system. It is akin to the clocks on a car dashboard. Yes, I can drive without them, but other than noise and vibration I'd have no other feedback from the engine. Whenever I'm on a desktop without gkrellms (e.g. MacOS), I find myself instintively searching for it and even getting frustrated gkrellms is not there. Since my coding ability is even worse than Dale's I join him in kindly asking for a maintainer/dev to take it on and keep it running.
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