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 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 thing... > >> >> 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, Craig. I will have a look into htop. >>> >>> thanks! >>> Jeff >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@cogeco.ca> >>> 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: c...@macports.org, openmaintai...@macports.org >>> >>> 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:c...@macports.org>c...@macports.org> 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 >>> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >>> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Craig Treleaven, CA -- Clearview Consulting >>> (905) 829-2054 ctrelea...@cogeco.ca >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> macports-users mailing list >>> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >>> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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