Hooray x 2 Lifehacker & Gizmodo!!!!!!! Reading the comments from many of the viewers on lifehacker, on my Graffiti Desktop, a lot of people were saying that they would rather have everything easier to read so I came up with this idea lol. I thought of a way to blend the information into the background yet still have it easily read. All of the text bubbles have information such as CPU, RAM, Uptime, To Do List, Hard drive Space, and others all with Geektool. I created the desktop background in photoshop so if you would like me to post it just let me know. The dock is hidden in the bottom right corner. If you have any questions I'll gladly answer to the best of my capabilities. The os x taskbar is changed with Magnifique using the UNO-AE theme
Geektool
projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
Magnifique
magnifiqueapp.com/
Yahoo Widgets
widgets.yahoo.com/
Weather Widget
widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
Battery Widget
widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/wdscp-battery
Font
www.dafont.com/comic-book.font?
Wallpaper
www.flickr.com/photos/zackshackleton/3406234712/
Geek Tool Commands
Top Processes
top -FR -l2 -o cpu | grep -v 0.0% | cut -c 7-24| sed -n '15, $p'
Time
date "+%l:%M"
AM & PM
date +%p
Date Number
date +%d
Month
date +%B
Weekday
date +%A
Calendar
cal
To Do List
Create a text file with TextEdit but make sure you click
Format>Make Plain Text before save. Then select the file in path in
GeekTool.
Uptime
uptime | awk '{print "" $3 " " $4 " " $5
}' | sed -e 's/.$//g';
RAM
top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "" $8 " "}' ;
CPU
top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $12, $13}'
Hard Drive Space
df -h | grep disk0s2 | awk '{print $4 }'
The Text Uptime, CPU, RAM, HDD Space
Another text file, remember have to Make Plain Text before saving
I hope you enjoy this :)
Again just ask any questions and I'll be glad to answer!
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hansdorsch 50 months ago | reply
This is wild!
Hariharakumar 50 months ago | reply
can you do this for Windows wallpaper?
zackshackleton 50 months ago | reply
Are you asking if it is possible or if I will do it? lol if possible then yes it is possible by using the wallpaper download I have supplied and a program called sumarize it should be able to do the same thing. Just let me know if you would like me to do this on windows and I will give my shot at it :) just let me know
Thanks everybody for the comment
Hariharakumar 49 months ago | reply
Thanks for your reply, i want you to create this wallpaper for Windows, and a tutorial, how to create it. I am just eager to place this wallpaper on my Windows system. I love the concept. Its amazing.
Hariharakumar 49 months ago | reply
Zack, i managed to do this on Windows, thanks.
davidhuddleston 49 months ago | reply
Zack, or anybody else... I'm at work at the moment so can't try anything out, but for when I get home - do you know of a tool that will do this for Ubuntu Linux? Haven't long installed it so I'm not that familiar with it but would love my desktop to look like this!
zackshackleton 49 months ago | reply
thc Conky is what I have heard is the best at being able to show system stats on the desktop in Linux. I have not had much experience with Linux so this is the best I can tell you. I have seen many other Linux desktops that use Conky and it looks great. Here is a link I hope this helps :) If you have any other questions please feel free to ask.
conky.sourceforge.net/
davidhuddleston 49 months ago | reply
Thanks Zack, I have seen conky on a fair few screenshots and have tried (without success :P) to install it, but I don't think you can position each piece of information as you have here. I'm sure there's something, I'll give Google a scour!
niumeipapa 47 months ago | reply
Just FYI, you mention using a file to output text like "Uptime", etc. I am simply using the command "echo Uptime" to do this. Keeps you from having to create a text file. Just another option (nice stuff, by the way... super creative).
tlax 45 months ago | reply
Cool.
mattswain124 44 months ago | reply
This is an amazing GeekTool setup! We'd love it if you would share your GeekTool scripts at www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets
StudioNti 43 months ago | reply
Very interesting!
siswandana 41 months ago | reply
Great stuff you have there...
very creative...
well done !!
Agent.Marino 35 months ago | reply
This is amazing (pun intended). Great job. So creative!!
phatman_breakz 27 months ago | reply
Loved yours! Thought I'd show you my own! Thanks for the inspiration!
spongico 22 months ago | reply
Hey, the CPU and the Top Processes code don't work for me, but everything else does: any suggestions?
Apple addict 20 months ago | reply
If You Have Upgraded to lion i have noticed that you cant use the hard drive usage script but after a few edits i found out how here is the mac osx lion hard drive space script :df -hl | grep disk1 | awk '{print $4 }' for percentage instead of $4 change to $5
Sheil Sarda 19 months ago | reply
how do u download the font???
other than that it looks awesome
PuRRTiiGurL 16 months ago | reply
Two THUMBS up! Kudos :)
janinegrace 14 months ago | reply
Hey do you have any larger versions of the original? It looks stretched when I set it as my background.