Duly informed of the joys of conky-cli and the much-needed watch command, I decided to try out both of them this evening, and came up with this.
I find conky-cli to be interesting, but not particularly earth-shattering. Perhaps I’m being overly harsh, but of the meters and statistics I can use (most seem to trigger errors, which I assume means they’re tied to graphical output), are not all that great. I can show disk space usage and bandwidth, but there are already quite a few tools that show those things much better.
And I found it odd that conky wouldn’t overwrite the same display, but instead paused, then spilled out another system report, much as if I had cat
ted a file. I tried to the output_to_ncurses
option, but that showed an error, and I checked the ./configure options for an ncurses flag, but I didn’t see anything.
So instead I used watch
to make the screenshot there. The watch conky -i 1
command spat out only one iteration, but restarted it every two seconds, giving the effect you see.
It might be more useful under other circumstances, but I think I’ll stick with what I’ve got. 😉
Awesome 🙂 I love reading your blog, because I think it’s the only CRUX related blog out there 😀
Conky and GNU Screen
http://wiki.conky.be/index.php/Conky_and_GNU_Screen
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