These are the ones I’m using now or have been used.ĭon’t like to much clutter on my desktop. – current network traffic (it works with some bugs) – day, minutes, hours, weekday, year (those are easy to find in unix) – info about every current mounted volume on the system – amount of data sent/received today (gigabytes) – weather script (just the conditions no images here) – Airport status if connected then name of connected wireless network will be displayedĪnd an image that will indicate the signal strength for more info about the geektool part, contact me, i’ll be glad to help. Wallpaper is also mine -) with kind regards towards little-gamers for granting me the usage of their ninja’s. Those grey snow-styles balloons are also dislayed using geektool. I made everything myself for geektool, because I like to play around with applescript and it’s not that hard to do the basics -) (I noticed documentation is getting better on the dev site last time I checked about a month ago.)īOTTOM LINE: If you want to know what is going on in your system without buying various monitoring programs, want complete configuration, and are willing to read a bit, GeekTool is well worth your time.Here is my desktop, and some geektool stuff, Try and look for “GeekTool” with “tips” or “configuration” if the developer’s site isn’t enough. If you read the sites about configuration, there are a ton of helpful tips, and prebuilt sets one can download. It you find that geek tool is taking up too many resources, lower the refresh times. Also, I loaded uptime, calendar, and a few other slow refresh commands. I found just loading the security, system and kernel logs works well, and is light on the processor load (since displaying logs is essentially a tail command: 0.1%CPU & ~30MB RAM). (Note: any command that self-updates in place such as “top” will cause problems since GT takes care of refreshing.) I already knew all the essential shell commands, so once I got a working version, it was easy to adapt to. (I wish it would optionally bring things to the front automatically for a second when updated.) My favorite feature is the ability to make things float over everything else. For each desktop item, Geektool lets you choose colors, the script command whose output you want to display, how often to refresh it, and you can also. Since GeekTool free and anything you leaner can be used in the CLI, you won’t be wasting money or time. If you know a few Unix shell commands and are willing to learn, you will be well rewarded. I’ve read the first page of reviews: you don’t _have_ to be a geek to use this app, but it helps. So finally, I tried it yet again, saw the warning, and got it running fairly quickly. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize I needed a different version for Lion so setting it up wasn’t working (the site wasn’t incredibly clear about that months back: It is the standalone app you need for Lion BTW. I found the need for something like this again, and tried it again. I tried this app a few years back and found it difficult to figure out how to use. Monaco looks *terrible* antialiased at those sizes, and having it antialiased makes things displayed look much, much less geeky :) Indeed, I'd love to see it get the ability to optionally disable antialiasing for *any* font (like in Terminal). They are now antialiased, where they never were before. One gripe: 3.1.1 came out, and it destroyed the look of Monaco at 9pt and 10pt. It would probably work smoother if there was something in the preferences that allowed the user to set a custom $PATH. There should be a box or something in the app's preferences that allow you to change the load order of geeklets, and shows you a list of them by name (not UIDs). So to shuffle their order in the plist, you have to write down which UID goes with which geeklet. If you try to fix this, you can, but you run into the fact that GeekTool keeps track of its geeklets by means of hexadecimal UIDs instead of the names that you already gave your geeklets when you created them. This can ruin a carefully-crafted desktop. For instance, it often reshuffles the order of which geeklets get loaded first. It uses route to find your current interface and then netstat, grep and awk to format and print the text. networkThroughput.sh Generates text that gives you the kbps of your connection. It could use improvement in certain areas. Below are a number of miscellaneous scripts that I use but haven't spent a lot of time cleaning up. But if you are a Geek, it couldn't really much get easier to use. From Geektool’s settings, click a Geeklet to open the Properties window. And most other things don't make a lot of sense then. Shell Geeklets output text, and you can change the look and style of each one. If you don't know what a shell script is, or how to write one, or are totally unfamiliar with things that live in /usr/bin, you won't be able to do much besides put images on your desktop. It's called GeekTool for a reason you have to already have some geekery ability to make it do much of interest.
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