<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing.<div><br></div><div>gkrellm is much more fun, customising, skinable and there are plugins.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 1 Dec 2013, at 11:24, Christopher Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">On 1 Dec 2013, at 10:39am, Jeff Friedman <<a href="mailto:friedmanjeff1@gmail.com">friedmanjeff1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I think gkrellm is just what I'm after. Thanks, Tim. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Indeed, its an excellent utility I’ve used for years on linux systems …</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On OSX though, I’ve tended to favour the iStatPro desktop widget. Does much the same thing...</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Jeff<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Tim Haigh<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timhaigh@mac.com" target="_blank">timhaigh@mac.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Why not install gkrellm it is great and does pretty much was Conky does.<div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 30 Nov 2013, at 20:59, Jeff Friedman <<a href="mailto:friedmanjeff1@gmail.com" target="_blank">friedmanjeff1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Looks good, Craig. I will have a look into htop. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>thanks!<br></div>Jeff<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Craig Treleaven<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca" target="_blank">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Another possibility is htop:<br><br>$ port info htop<br>htop @<a href="http://0.8.2.2/" target="_blank">0.8.2.2</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(sysutils)<br>Variants: universal<br><br>Description: This is htop, an interactive process viewer. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals).<br>Homepage: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/mklein-de/htop-osx" target="_blank">https://github.com/mklein-de/<u></u>htop-osx</a><br><br>Build Dependencies: autoconf, automake, libtool<br>Library Dependencies: ncurses<br>Platforms: darwin<br>License: GPL-2<br>Maintainers: <a href="mailto:cal@macports.org" target="_blank">cal@macports.org</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:openmaintainer@macports.org" target="_blank">openmaintainer@macports.org</a><br><br>Craig<div><br><br>At 3:27 PM +0000 11/30/13, Jeff Friedman wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Thanks for the replies, folks.<br><br>I didn't realise that Conky wouldn't be compatible with OS X. I will, however, have a look at GeekTool.<br><br>Thanks again for being helpful.<br><br>Best wishes,<br>Jeff<br><br><br><br></div><div>On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Clemens Lang <<mailto:<a href="mailto:cal@macports.org" target="_blank">cal@macports.org</a>><a href="mailto:cal@macports.org" target="_blank">cal@<u></u>macports.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:59:02AM +0000, Jeff Friedman wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"> Let me know if you think this is possible.<br></blockquote><br>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><br><<a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/" target="_blank">http://projects.tynsoe.org/<u></u>en/geektool/</a>><a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/" target="_blank">http://projects.<u></u>tynsoe.org/en/geektool/</a><br><br></div><<a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php" target="_blank">http://projects.tynsoe.org/<u></u>en/geektool/ecrans.php</a>><a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php" target="_blank">http://<u></u>projects.tynsoe.org/en/<u></u>geektool/ecrans.php</a><br><br>HTH,<br>--<br>Clemens Lang<br><br><br><br><div>______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>macports-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org" target="_blank">macports-users@lists.<u></u>macosforge.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" target="_blank">https://lists.macosforge.org/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/macports-<u></u>users</a><br></div></blockquote><span><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>--<br>Craig Treleaven, CA -- Clearview Consulting<br><a href="tel:%28905%29%20829-2054" value="+19058292054" target="_blank">(905) 829-2054</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca" target="_blank">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a><br></font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>macports-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org" target="_blank">macports-users@lists.macosforge.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" target="_blank">https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>macports-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org">macports-users@lists.macosforge.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" target="_blank">https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>macports-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org">macports-users@lists.macosforge.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users">https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users</a></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>