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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"

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Thieri 253 days ago
thx for the process list ;-)
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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.
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Randalian 226 days ago
I love this but the right side gets a little cluttered.

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