Summer

Even though it isn't actually summer yet.

Inspired by/shamelessly stolen from this.

Resources used:
Dock: Set to 'left' in Dock Preferences, made clear using DockSwitcher.
Icons: The Kobhens by Roburto Urso, folder icons by j3concepts.
Menubar icons: Clean by Queo.
Adium theme: "Colorless" contact list, made by myself. Just uploaded it to the Adium themes database, it's currently pending approval. Message style: M Squared Minimal.
Geektool: Using the font 'STHeiti', which should be preinstalled on your Mac. Font sizes (in descending order): 160pt / 64pt / 48pt / 18pt / 14pt. For the Unix commands I used, click here.

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Comments

pyreƒyre says:

Minimalism at its best. Great desktop.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

{grant} says:

that's nice
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

_ltwp says:

what all do you have running in the menu bar?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

_ltwp says:

Why am i not your contact?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

From left to right: Spotlight, User, AirPort, TimeMachine, Growl, Adium, and Google Notifier. I'm using the Clean menubar icon replacement set.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

Good question.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

vtjohnson says:

it is safe to assume this means you dont start your day until 9:23am? time is 9:55am and uptime is only 27minutes...hahaha
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

ipodrulz says:

What's the code you use in GeekTool?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Emperor Andrew says:

lifehacker.com/5280484/the-minimalist-os-x-de sktop

Congrats on the second featured article!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Greg Morgan says:

Awesome desktop, i would love to have the geektool code if you wouldn't mind =)
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

BrianLarter says:

what are some of the unix commands you used in geektool to get the display you have?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

sniffles12 says:

+1 for geektool code please.

Thanks.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

vtjohnson Yeah, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Very perceptive of you.
I find this extremely hard to believe.
Greg Morgan sniffles12
Geektool Time Display:
Hours: date "+%l"
Minutes: date "+%M"
Day: date "+%d"
Month: date +%B
Day of the week: date +%A

Geektool System Stats Display:
CPU:
top -l 1| awk '/CPU usage/ {print $8, $9}'
top -l 1| awk '/CPU usage/ {print $10, $11}'
top -l 1| awk '/CPU usage/ {print $12, $13}'
RAM:
top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "Used: " $8 " \n Free: " $10}'
Uptime:
uptime | awk '{print $3 " " $4 " " $5 }' | sed -e 's/.$//g'

Weather:
I use a Perl script by Nic Haynes, who also happens to have several other great tutorials on all things GeekTool. You can find his site at nicinabox.com/projects/geektool-scripts/.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

{grant} says:

congrats on lifehacker
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

BrianLarter says:

ok sorry one last very stupid question that I can't seem to get answered. How do you display just plain text with geektool? or is it possible?

I am refering to the headers like RAM and CPU
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

BrianLarter says:

never mind

echo
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

Indeed, it's 'echo'.
Thanks! :D
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

billc223 says:

Can you verify the "uptime" command? I used that, and the output I get is:
23:24, 2 users

Was kind of hoping to have my uptime on my desktop similar to yours, in the format of "xx mins" or "xx hrs, xx mins"

Thanks, and great looking desktop!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

It only displays the 'minutes' label if the machine has been active for less then an hour, as far as I know.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

ipodrulz says:

Thanks!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

woodztream says:

Nice too see that I have inspired someone!

Share on!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

{grant} says:

me too :D ^^
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

ChrisLoz says:

Very nice!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

MrTissues says:

Could you share the font you used? It looks great!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

MrTissues The font is 'STHeiti', which is preinstalled on your Mac.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

csmarshall says:

How did you do the system icons, I see the wifi and spotlight icons looking moded, is that some app that I am missing?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

Go here, download the file, and read the instructions. :)
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

l337dexter says:

How often do you have your CPU and ram stats refreshing?

Also, anyone able to get to nicinabox.com ? Never loads for me.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

l337dexter I have them refresh every second, but whatever works best for you is, well, best.

Nicinabox.com works just fine for me...try clearing out your browser cache?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Brendan McCue says:

'grats on being featured!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

l337dexter says:

Yeah, it started working late last night for me. Wanted to use his RTM script, but CPAN isn't working well for me for some reason.

Any chance you could link to what screensaver you use? I would sugest this one too: www.jessonyip.com/
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

l337dexter I've been using a combination of StatusScreenSaver and FLIQLO, as seen here.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

nic.h says:

Very nice!
I saw this on lifehacker and I was like, hey that weather format looks familiar :P

@ l337dexter
Server ran out of ram, but everything should be working fine now.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

jxp05j says:

Are there any tricks to getting the CPU stats running? They wont display anything for me.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

jxp05j Mind copy-pasting what you're putting in please?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

jxp05j says:

top -l 1| awk '/CPU usage/ {print $8, $9}'
top -l 1| awk '/CPU usage/ {print $10, $11}'
top -l 1| awk '/CPU usage/ {print $12, $13}'
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

jxp05j No idea why it isn't working for you, then...sorry.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

nic.h says:

@jxp05j
Try putting the command directly in terminal and see if you get any output. Also try this to see that it is actually able to output something:

top -l 1| awk '/CPU usage/ {print $0}'
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

jxp05j says:

I just managed to get it working. Thanks nic.h and hawk.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Flugelnull says:

For whatever reason, I can't get the time display working. Any ideas on why? I just copied and pasted directly from here, and I tried it with quotes around the operators and without. Still nothing...
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

Flugelnull Make sure you're not accidentally using 'smart quotes'? Try pasting and then replacing the quotes with quotes from your own keyboard?

Beyond that, I don't know.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

[binary] says:

Curious, what kind of wallpaper did you use?
Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )

нawk says:

Binary: you can find it at www.flickr.com/photos/woodztream/3571177647/i n/photostream/ .
Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )

[binary] says:

Great, thanks.
Posted 4 days ago. ( permalink )

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