<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks for the replies, folks.<br><br></div>I didn't realise that Conky wouldn't be compatible with OS X. I will, however, have a look at GeekTool.<br><br></div>Thanks again for being helpful.<br>
<br>Best wishes, <br>Jeff<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Clemens Lang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cal@macports.org" target="_blank">cal@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:59:02AM +0000, Jeff Friedman wrote:<br>
> Let me know if you think this is possible.<br>
<br>
</div>Unfortunately I don't think writing a port for Conky will achieve what<br>
you expect it to.<br>
<br>
First, "Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X", where "X"<br>
is the X window system. While Macs can run an X server using XQuartz<br>
they usually do so without a root window (i.e. they don't display a<br>
desktop background, but rather try to integrate with Mac OS X' window<br>
management). Conky however draws its statistics into the X root window,<br>
where you'll only be able to see them if you switch to XQuartz'<br>
full-screen mode using Cmd+Opt+A (if you have it enabled in XQuartz'<br>
preferences), which will hide all your standard OS X windows.<br>
<br>
Second, there are only few standards for system monitoring and OS X and<br>
other BSD derivates are probably sufficiently different from Linux<br>
systems in this regard that some of Conky's statistics features might<br>
not even work on OS X, e.g. Conky might attempt to use the Linux method<br>
to read your current CPU usage or network traffic, which might just not<br>
work on OS X, or worse, crash the process.<br>
<br>
Fortunately, there are alternatives to achieve the same on OS X, e.g.<br>
GeekTool:<br>
<a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/" target="_blank">http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/</a><br>
<a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php" target="_blank">http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php</a><br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Clemens Lang<br>
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