Info-Maniac Desktop

Posted in Collections by Geek_42 256 days ago

The Desktop of an Information Maniac

So this is a mega-collection of geeklets i put together. It's basically my "best of". A lot of this is stuff some one else posted as a geeklet and i tweaked a bit. The geeklets were uploaded in order of grouping, e.g.: PC_Stats, Date&Time, Current_Wthr, Tmrw_Wthr, and Day3_Wthr.

I did not include my titles ("Today", "Processing", etc.). All you have to do is put 'echo "<title>"' in a script geeklet to make one of your own.

After futzing with GeekTool for all this time i see just how much work is involved in having a kick-ass desktop. So credit, where credit is due:

The background image is from Apple's Black & White catalog.
The Date & Time is derived from mercury52, with almost no alterations i must add.
'Today' weather is inspired by another of mercury52's submissions, but the real credit should go to jdfwarrior (of Gtwthr.com) for running the site.
The day's since last TM backup is from pycet.
The process list is from one of the geeklet in baldrailers' "Tron Inspired Desktop"

Comments

Thieri 253 days ago

thx for the process list ;-)

riverrat 233 days ago

I like the top.glet. However, using "top -l 1" makes the CPU data completely useless as top consumes a large amount of CPU time itself. You'll notice that the SYS time is always well above 15% every time the pane redisplays.

Try this:

top -l 2 | egrep "^Processes|^CPU usage|^PhysMem" | tail -3 | awk '/Processes/ {print $0} /CPU usage/ {print $0} /PhysMem/ {print "Total Mem: "$2" wired, "$4" active, "$6" inactive, "$8" used, "$10" free"}'

This grabs two iterations of the top output but ignores the first three lines (meaning the first output) returned. On my MBP with a 2.66GHz i7, the above takes about 2+ seconds to come back with output. So I changed the "Refresh every" field for this glet to be 8 seconds vs 5 seconds.

Randalian 226 days ago

I love this but the right side gets a little cluttered.

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