z’nged my mac os desktop
for weeks, i have been struggling with enigma desktop on windows 7. geektool had been installed during the 1st week i had my imac, and i used it to display the top cpu processes and disk space usage. it wasn’t till i was searching for desktop customization inspiration from lifehacker, that i thought of customizing my imac. geektool and mac is a pair made in heaven. customization is a breeze for me, with lots of tips and guides available on the world wide web.
entries used:
harddisk utilization (Shell)
df -h | grep <disk name> | awk ‘{print “Total: “, $2, “Unused: ” ,$4}’
cpu (Shell)
top -l 2 | awk ‘/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $12, $13}’
ram (Shell)
top -l 1 | awk ‘/PhysMem/ {print “” $8 ” “}’ ;
top memory hoggers (Shell)
top -orsize -FR -l1 | grep % | grep -v Load | grep -v COMMAND | cut -c 7-15,64-69
time (Shell)
date “+%l:%M %p”
day of the date (Shell)
date +%d
weekday of the date (Shell)
date +%A
month of the date (Shell)
date +%B
calendar (Shell)
cal
lifehacker rss (Shell)
this section took me the most amount of time to get it to work.
- download the news.sh file and save it on your machine, preferably in your Documents folder, i.e. /Users/<username>/Documents/news.sh
- rename news.sh to news.command, and enable execute permission on the file – chmod u+x news.command
- open news.command file from TextEdit, and change the URL=”<feeds URL>” accordingly. Do not use “feed://…” but “http://…” or the rss feed will not work.
- on GeekTool, create a New Entry and select File from the drop-down list. Type the following command – <location of news.command file>/news.command. the sh command is not required.
it would be helpful if you are well-versed in unix commands, as you might have noticed, the syntax are very much unix-based.
external links to aid you further in the customization:
thememymac – geektool: explained for beginners
francescomugnai – mega roundup of geektool scripts + inspiration
