After the last stable update, the plasma desktop does not respect gkrellm “sticky” state. Gkrellm only shows up on the virtual desktop in which it was invoked. Window rules don’t fix this. And I notice that having pamac rebuild gkrellm gives many errors of the form “[-Wincompatible-pointer-types]”
Maybe gkrellm is just RIP.
Have you cleaned your cache?
GKrellM depends on gtk2. It’s been EOL for 5 years and all related packages have been removed from the repos completely or dropped to the AUR.
Did you mean, Maybe gkrellm is just dead.?
FYI, R.I.P. stands for rest in peace (English) from the Latin requiescat in pace.
clearing cache did not help; RIP use is metonymy 
I have been using Gkrellm for at least 15 years and have not found any equivalent application in terms of graphic accuracy, particularly for displaying network data.
Does anyone have any suggestions for replacing this gem ?
Make sure gtk2 is installed
Make a builds folder. Then then open terminal and: cd ~/builds
Then in the terminal paste the code below and hit enter:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gkrellm-git.git
cd gkrellm-git
makepkg -si
@Phantom-11 - sure, it builds but does not respect sticky state
That might be because of Plasma running under wayland (which will soon be the only “choice”)
instead of under X11.
But I don’t know.
I neither use Plasma nor have I ever used that software.
Conky seems to be similar in looks - but I know this wasn’t a request for alternatives in function or looks, of which there are many.
Usually, the desktop environments have panel applets or something similar to provide similar functionality.
Yes, you’ve got it. It is because of wayland which does not support gtk2.
