#GEEK TOOLS MAC DESKTOP FREE#
and if you're a GeekTool power user and have a favorite shell task, feel free to post it here in the comments! You can see an example of that in the iTunes hint linked above. Given the shell's ability to run AppleScripts, the Shell tasks are by far the most powerful options in GeekTool. But you can have it display the output from top -l 1, since that just runs once then exits. Note that GeekTool displays the output of a command after it has been run and terminated hence, it won't display the output from top, since that's an interactive process. If you're comfortable with those tasks, try a simple shell command - uptime or ls -l, just to see how it works.
#GEEK TOOLS MAC DESKTOP UPDATE#
Start with a live update image or the display of a file's contents, as those are probably the easiest two tasks to create.
#GEEK TOOLS MAC DESKTOP DOWNLOAD#
Probably the best thing to do is to download it and start playing with it.
Going into a ton of detail on everything you could do with GeekTool will take more time than I have available. Once a task has been created, you can move and size its window by either entering the data in the Location portion of the input screen, or by dragging and stretching its window with the mouse - just make sure you select the task in the Groups window first. A better solution would be a numeric entry box and a pop-up menu for choosing between seconds, minutes, hours, etc. The only time interval allowed is seconds, which makes for lots of math when you want to update something twice a day, once a week, once a month, etc. You can even specify any window as an "always on top" window, in which case it will float over all other OS X objects (including the dock).Įntering the update intervals is more difficult than it need be. Each of the types of GeekTool tasks has its own settings, along with universal options for update interval, window size, position, color, and (if applicable) text. You create new entries in groups, and then assign a task (display a file, output from a shell command, or show an image) to that entry. GeekTool's interface is a bit confusing and can be somewhat daunting to understand, but it gets easier the more you use it. And no, I don't normally devote this much screen space to GeekTool toys my usual set is just the uptime display, cal output, and (on interesting weather days) the weather map. The top left image is the Portland Doppler radar, which gets refreshed every 10 minutes, and to the right of that is an infrared image of the sun, updated every four hours. To the right of the calendar is a three-month Apple stock chart, updated every five minutes. The calendar output is only updated once per day. In the left corner is a calendar, courtesy of the cal command (as discussed in the linked hint above). At the very bottom of the screen, the output of the uptime command is displayed, and it updates automatically every 15 minutes. I've got five separate GeekTool tasks running in the above image.
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