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Conky-for-macOS / conky-for-macOS

macOS port of the Light-weight system monitor for X.
https://github.com/Conky-for-macOS/conky-for-macOS/wiki
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Installation #23

Closed knightjp closed 6 years ago

knightjp commented 6 years ago

I am not a developer. Could I have a detailed step by step instruction to install it?

I saw a video on youtube but I can't follow or understand it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tIiDdnC68

npyl commented 6 years ago

Hi, hope this helps:

Installation

You first need to download and install the following software:

For installing ConkyX, please unzip the downloaded file and run ConkyX.app.

ConkyX.app will ask to be installed in /Applications and if you hit YES, it will close and rerun. It will check if the required software is missing, and if so, it will install it. This may take some minutes.

Once this finishes, you are ready to use conky by double clicking ConkyX.app

~~(OOPS: I just remembered that I bundle conky inside ConkyX.app, thus you won't be able to use conky from the command line. To amend this problem, you can run the command: echo "export PATH=\"/Applications/ConkyX.app/Contents/Resources:\$PATH\"" >> ~/.bash_profile and restart your terminal! This won't be necessary in the next version of ConkyX.)~~ UPDATE: this is not required as of version 0.0.0.6.4 of ConkyX! Grab the latest version if you haven't already

Configuration

If you want to configure a bit conky, you can download Manage Conky.app which allows:

knightjp commented 6 years ago

Does this work with High Sierra?

npyl commented 6 years ago

Yes it does! Just make sure to download version 0.0.0.6.4 of ConkyX because I published a new yesterday and the installation process will be slightly different.

EDIT: please keep in mind that conky-for-macOS doesn't support all features conky-for-linux does. This is because it is still a work-in-progress, I am the only developer of the port, and I have very limited time. It is just a hobby project.

npyl commented 6 years ago

A complete list of what is supported will be uploaded in the future, but here is a quick look of what is supported:

conky

lua support is kindof broken i think, network statistics are not implemented yet

npyl commented 6 years ago

Installation steps have been simplified and an updated guide has been published here

The old steps written above are no longer relevant