Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 there. I must be a bear of little brain (Winnie ther (sic) Pooh) but I cannot see how they put info on the root window a la the screenshots. Is it a theme? James ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 fun, customising, skinable and there are plugins. Cannot argue there. I must be a bear of little brain (Winnie ther (sic) Pooh) but I cannot see how they put info on the root window a la the screenshots. gkrellm can't draw into the OS X root window, it requires X11 and that you run xquartz / xorg-server in full screen mode. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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, 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 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 + 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 +, 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.phphttp:// 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
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 + 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.orgc...@macports.org wrote: 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 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.phphttp://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 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 + 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.orgc...@macports.org wrote: 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 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.phphttp://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 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 more? When I upgraded my desktop to 10.8 I discovered that it was no longer supported and there were two manual patches I needed to apply for it to work. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 iStat Menus. I said iStats Pro, which costs nothing. Is that even maintained any more? When I upgraded my desktop to 10.8 I discovered that it was no longer supported and there were two manual patches I needed to apply for it to work. I don't recall any problems, and i've upgraded my machine from 10.5 all the way to 10.9 -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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: 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 more? When I upgraded my desktop to 10.8 I discovered that it was no longer supported and there were two manual patches I needed to apply for it to work. I don't recall any problems, and i've upgraded my machine from 10.5 all the way to 10.9 The patches are for the process list and for external IP address; if you have those sections turned off, you might not notice. That said, it also has some UTF8 issues I've never bothered to try to fix. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 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 iStat Menus. I said iStats Pro, which costs nothing. Is that even maintained any more? When I upgraded my desktop to 10.8 I discovered that it was no longer supported and there were two manual patches I needed to apply for it to work. I don't recall any problems, and i've upgraded my machine from 10.5 all the way to 10.9 The patches are for the process list and for external IP address; if you have those sections turned off, you might not notice. That said, it also has some UTF8 issues I've never bothered to try to fix. I do have both those sections. The process lists seems OK, but the external IP address doesn't work. Sorry for not mentioning that, it hasn't for a while (presumably since 10.8) and i just got used to it, as i never really cared about that bit. I really don't recall having to patch things for the process list, but perhaps i did sometime... -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 for you ;) cheers Chris On 30 Nov 2013, at 10:59am, Jeff Friedman friedmanje...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 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/ecrans.php HTH, -- Clemens Lang ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 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 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/ecrans.php HTH, -- Clemens Lang ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 + 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.orgc...@macports.org wrote: 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 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.phphttp://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
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 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 + 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 +, 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.phphttp:// 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
Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?
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 + 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.orgc...@macports.org wrote: 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 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.phphttp://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 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
