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Philip Webb posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:58:43 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> 230127 Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> # GKrellM and a variety of plugins. |
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>> # Removal on 2023-02-26. Bug #892251. |
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>> app-admin/gkrellm |
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[and plugins, etc.] |
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> Is there a recommended alternative ? |
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app-admin/conky |
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It's currently gtk3, but at least with lua-cairo enabled, X-only. |
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However, upstream is alive and wayland-native support is apparently in the |
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works (tho it has been some months since I last checked status), so |
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doesn't appear to be death-bed either. |
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I use it here, altho I wasn't satisfied with built-in only so learned lua |
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(designed for embedding, exactly what conky uses it for) and wrote my own |
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conky lua themes. Seems extensibility is mandatory for flexibility |
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(handling decent detail at readable size without going fullscreen) for |
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this sort of app, and I've learned the extensibility language of more than |
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one such app (RIP superkaramba!) as they've gone dead over the years, but |
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with conky alive and working on wayland-native support, hopefully it'll |
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stick around for awhile. |
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Meanwhile, email me privately if you're interested in a lua-based conky |
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theme that can handle for example per-thread user/nice/system/freq |
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(extensible to steal... if you're doing VMs) at "readble but not entire |
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screen" sizes with AMD's 64-core/128-thread threadripper in mind (tho I'm |
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still on an old 6-thread ATM so expanding that big likely has bugs to work |
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out), or just for general conky discussion/questions, if you want. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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