![]() ![]() What next? I almost gave up on this one and used the GeekTool method, but then I stumbled across Nerdtool - and found something attractive in its feature set: it can display web content. Both of the above are solid, high-quality apps and are definitely recommended if you have the need to run several Widgets on your desktop. There are however, third party apps, Amensty Singles and Amnesty Widget Browser, that can do the heavy lifting and display Widgets at the desktop level in exchange for a little of your folding money. One big problem with this method: the Widget hovers over the top of all other application windows, not really conducive for prolonged use. The next idea was to run the iCal Dashboard Widget on the desktop using a well known developer’s workflow and some making some alterations to its CSS code to make it fit my style of choice. ![]() Not very stylish and colorizing the various parts proved to be too much of a challenge for my abilities. I started with a GeekTool calendar but was discouraged with having to use a fixed width font. ![]() This was, by far, the most challenging section to nail down. The font is Archer Bold, colors were borrowed from the iCal Dashboard Widget. All, with the exception of the background, are terminal based commands set to refresh at regular intervals. ‘Day’, ‘Date’, ‘Time’, ‘am/pm’, and the transparent background are individual code snippets arranged as a cohesive unit. Let’s break this down by section by section… Date and Time StampĮverything in this part is powered by GeekTool. While there are other methods of attaining a similar arrangement, these items, in tandem, provided the best features for my needs and sense of style. Here’s a screenshot showcasing the results of my efforts: a combination of elements assembled from GeekTool 3.0, Nerdtool 0.8, and CalendarView 1.2. Not a huge bother in the overall scheme of things and perhaps not an insurmountable problem, but I went with the thought of trying some alternative ideas since that was the one and only widget I had in place. The trade-off was my embedded desktop calendar served up by Yahoo!® Widgets didn’t move from one space to another. The plus side of this arrangement allowed me retire an ancient, bulky monitor and keyboard from my workspace less clutter makes Scott a Happy Boy™. Users/Nick/Documents/Glet/weather 12345 – Replace the Path/Users/Nick/… with where the weather file is located.I recently started using Spaces on my iMac at the day job to create a dedicated environment for accessing my Windows systems via Microsoft Remote Desktop. Ps -arcwwwxo “command %cpu %mem” | grep -v grep | head -13 Week Day and Today’s Date(In number format): date +”%A %d”Ĭal | awk -v cday=`date “+%d”` ‘’ Time: date +”%I:%M %p” – If you do not want the percent remove the %p Below you will be able to find the shell scripts that I use for my GeekTool setup. The font that I am using is called Helvetica Neue. The theme that I am using is called Zukunft Condensed Black, because it matches my font. So, I decided to go with Bowtie and found a theme that I liked. I was having difficulty using a shell script to output my iTunes song, and when it was able to it did not have the best interface. In addition, I am also able to display the current song playing in my iTunes Library. Also in the system side, I am able to see the amount of memory in use, CPU processes, as well as the uptime. I am able to have my network IP’s external and internal. On the right hand side, I have my system items. I am able to pull the data from two simple AppleScripts, one for my mail and one for Things. For instance, my mail is displayed on the left side as well as the to-do items I need to complete, that is taken from the Things (an awesome application by Cultured Code). Basically the way my setup works is one the left hand side is my miscellaneous items. I created the second bar to the other side. In my GeekTool setup, I found a background online that only had one bar. The three different type of ‘Glets’ you can have are: File, which allows you to display a file, Shell, which allows you to display the uptime or run a ping command, and the final option is called Image, that allows you to display an image in the background. There are three options, but you can have an unlimited (Or until you do not have an adequate amount of memory). GeekTool is a PrefPane (Runs in System Preferences) and allows three types of outputs to be embedded in your desktop. For example, you could use your screensaver to run in the background, a picture of your pet, or something pretty amazing for us geeks called GeekTool. There are many different things that you can do with a Mac OS X desktop. ![]()
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