Comments on: GeekTool: Turn Your Mac’s Desktop Into An Information Center

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:24:00 +0000

You can’t run top on its own because of the screen clear commands it issues. You have to use “-l 1″ so that it only requests data once. But you actually have to request it twice using “-l 2″ to get accurate cpu% readings. So I built a shell window that ran top with -l 2, and dragged the window past the top edge of my screen to hide the less useful first run of the command.

For the author:
Twitter doesn’t support basic authorization for the CURL command so it doesn’t work. Plus, having that comma at the end produces an error:

sed: 1: “s// /,n”: bad flag in substitute command: ‘,’

By: David Coleman-Jones

David Coleman-Jones — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:56:00 +0000

echo “your text”

By: Daniel Wamara

Daniel Wamara — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:25:00 +0000

I wanted to add a shell command in it (top) but unfortunately, it looks like it’s not working. Any idea?

By: rutinerad

rutinerad — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:09:00 +0000

The way I use GeekTool with iTunes is getting the title, artist, album & star rating from an AppleScript I made and getting the album art via the free TunesArt. Works great.

It looks like this: http://twitpic.com/3n1ysy

I’ll email the Applescript, if anyone wants it.

By: Keegancornelius

Keegancornelius — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:37:00 +0000

hey anybody know how to insert plain text as a shell? I just want a quote on my desktop, but dont know how. please help

By: toffa813

toffa813 — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:38:19 +0000

How do I get it to display degrees in Fahrenheit? I tried switching the C (before the

By: LoiB

LoiB — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:35:50 +0000

Bump.

By: LoiB

LoiB — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:34:48 +0000

I ended up using Bowtie, but thanks :)

By: Bradley

Bradley — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:52:29 +0000

hi guys I really need help here. I can't see the shell that i created for facebook. I did everything right (i think haha.) Can someone help me? And also you can't get the friends status feed anymore by their site, I had to go to my friends' notes, and clicked subscribe and i subscribed to their notes. Then, i changed the “friends_notes” to “friends_status”. Then I was able to get the link. From that point on I did all the steps, but nothing came up.

By: n8k99

n8k99 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:06:54 +0000

personally, i use the last.fm application which sends a notification to Growl, and i control through the Quicksilver plugin for itunes. However, if you do want to use Geektool you can follow these instructions (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20...) as they seem to produce track information.

By: LoiB

LoiB — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:03:42 +0000

What option would you then recommend, if the iTunes-info has to be on the desktop (and not in i.e. the menu bar like YouControlTunes)?
When I download the latest version of iCalBuddy it's GeekTool 2 and it asks me to replace the current version of GT (which is version 3) – is it safe (and sound) to do a downgrade?

By: n8k99

n8k99 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:40:16 +0000

ITunes support ISA bit more tricky and actually geektool is not the best option to get it done. iCalBuddy can and does play nicely with the newest version of GeekTool so worrying need not be done.

By: LoiB

LoiB — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:54:56 +0000

Great guide, but added iTunes-support would have been good as well :)
It seems this guide is mostly based on GeekTool 3 although the iCalBuddy is based on GeekTool 2. Is it possible to have both tools installed or is a downgrade neccesary if I've already installed (and configured) GeekTool 3?

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:52:11 +0000

Yes. You can try out Rainmeter (http://rainmeter.net) for Windows

By: n8k99

n8k99 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:08:01 +0000

I'm using BlairMdITC TT, which I am reasonably certain is standard in the Mac Font Book.

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By: wfrwf

wfrwf — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:21:49 +0000

anything like this available for windows?

By: Michael Jaggers

Michael Jaggers — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:55:56 +0000

I was hoping to get the name of that font… mind sharing?

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By: n8k99

n8k99 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:11:57 +0000

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