The Minimalist OS X Desktop
Reader нawk’s desktop is a blend of a simple wallpaper and nicely placed system stats—yielding a clean, minimalist look that gives you the information you want without a lot of clutter.
The desktop customisation is a modification of reader Woodztream’s desktop, and is a combination of:
- Wallpaper by Woodztream.
- GeekTool for system stats, date, and weather information.
- The Clean menubar replacement icon set.
Great job guys!
Minimalist OS X Desktop [Flickr]
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So how do I get my desktop to look exactly like this? It appears there's a lot of fiddling around to in GeekTool, and the settings and fonts aren't mentioned here. :/
OrazioAloeus
As far as this is concerned: Nice. I don't know if "I" would put the system stats up or not if it were me doing it, but hey to each his own. Perhaps people do it for the "geek" factor, I don't know.
My home computer is a shared machine - both my wife and I. So I haven't bothered to do anything more than change a wallpaper once in a while.
I personally hate the computer I use to have a hidden taskbar, so I leave it as is. It annoys me to no end - can't get rid of it fast enough.
My work computer (laptop) has right now a photo of a 1969 Boss 302 Mustang for wallpaper. I just haven't bothered to do anything more with it at this point. Sure it is a bit cluttered (2 columns of icons) but it was easy, and looks nice. Periodically I change it.
Runnin-Ute
@nitzua: I'd say the HRM car DOES exist just to exist, but I take your point. However, it only inspires the sort of person who buys HRM, many of the people here would look at it and think "What a showoff!", they're aimed at different crowds. The half painted Datsun could be an inspiration to carry on regardless, but it's not the car for HRM, for sure. LH isn't HRM, here and c.org have totally different aims. I can respect the shots there, like I respect that car's existance, but I wouldn't -want- one, you know?
@nitzua: I'd actually appreciate that too. *hint*
@Phoshi: I don't think the better c.org shots exist purely to exist. Saying that is like saying the car on the front of this months Hot Rod Magazine exists just to exist. Sure, 99% of the readers don't have the resources to replicate the featured car, but it's there to inspire. There's a reason they don't put a half-painted Datsun with no hood on the cover.
I'm running the setup I last submitted to c.org in it's entirety, and it works very well. I also think it could be bended and converted to suit just about any user's needs. The only program I'm running other than Windows in order to achieve it is Samurize.
@Elly: Thanks much! :D
Also, some folks on Flickr asked about what Unix commands I used for the GeekTool display. Here's the writeup:
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/.
@The How-To Geek: My first suggestion, although it may be cumbersome to implement, would be to have people host their screenshots on a site where full-size view is available to every user.
@hawkweisman: See? Now there's actually a few things going on in that version of the shot. There should be a link to the image in the main post here.
@DogHead: What exactly is going on 'behind the scenes' that I'm not seeing? I'd really like to know.
@puntai: I agree I am a busy person I dont have time to stare at my desktop :(
metalmarious
@puntai: I'm running osx86, when you have a kernel extension incompatibility it runs 'kernel_task' to the point where it uses up 100% of one of my cores. It doesn't seem slower but it will slow down background programs.
It's good to keep an eye on things.
@nitzua: I didn't see the full-size screenshot link when I first looked at it, so my mistake there.
I'm not engaging in an argument about your comments. I'm suggesting that you put some thought into the idea of being more friendly, constructive, and positive.
While I'll admit that getting a Lifehacker feature does great things for the ego (and the Flickr stats), I can't in good conscience say I really deserve this. As you noted above, the whole thing is basically a cover version of Woodztream's equally impressive desktop, and I think he's really the one who should have gotten the feature.
Also, this is my second Lifehacker feature (see here [lifehacker.com]), with a similar color scheme and folder icons, no less.
With that said, thanks a lot for the feature.
I really dig this... Anyone want to offer up what they think the scripts are to accomplish this in GeekTool?
@SRone2:
Thanks much! :D
@AmphetamineCrown: While I do find that RAM/CPU usage is often useful, I'll be honest with you and say that a large amount of the reason I have it displayed on the desktop is, plain and simple, to appease my nerdity. I like knowing how much RAM is in use, regardless of whether or not it actually gets anything useful done.
Kind of against the Lifehacker spirit, I know.
I like it minimal desktops the most :)
metalmarious
@AmphetamineCrown: I've noticed that as well, and I can assure you it's an optical illusion. They are in fact the same font size.
@Jeffrey Bernard Yozwiak: Why not? :P
@[www.flickr.com] and take note of the custom menubar icons, folder icons, dock icons, Adium theme, and system theme. Just a thought.
@The How-To Geek: I linked to a full-size image of the screenshot I submitted to the pool today. Anyone who visits the post can click on the link to the larger image. As far as I'm aware, only paying members of Flickr are allowed to display their images in full resolution. I don't think there's been more than a few FDs that we as readers could view in full resolution, on here or Flickr. Furthermore, I've stated numerous times that the comments I make are NOT attempts to get my work featured on Lifehacker. I never once said anything to suggest that as my motive either. Don't try and counter my 'negativity' with lies and character attacks; it will get you nowhere. It's interesting that you call my criticisms 'whining', and claim that I've never said anything helpful. A lot of my attempts to help have been dismissed as elitist or because I don't have a new screenshot in the pool every two weeks.
@leahzero:
The RAM usage actually is (supposed to be) centered, for some reason, Geektool isn't displaying it correctly.
I've been considering playing with the arrangement of the system info some more, this was a pretty quick custom job. Thanks much for your feedback.
@nitzua: I know what you mean, it's obvious the user hasn't pured his soul into it, but it's a good result, regardless. The shots at c.org aren't just out of the relms of this site, they exist purely to exist - this is a desktop to be used, not a desktop to be looked at, and woo'd over by other people in the same field. This may not inspire YOU, you're experienced at this, but to someone running genericly default mac? It might show them that yes, you CAN change the way your PC looks, for the better. Everybody has to start somewhere, and posting many of the desktop on corg here would terrify people - the amount of work that's gone into a consistent style is mind boggling.
Also what HtG said, if you're going to complain, do it constructively, not destructively, or you'll make me sad :(
@nitzua: Your ignorance is showing. There's a lot going on here behind-the-scenes, and this desktop has one of the most solid underlying grid structure that has been posted.
"Simple" does not equate "simplistic."
As a designer, I like this a lot. It contains elements of a mod I did of the Enigma desktop. A couple of things that bother me:
- The hanging month doesn't have pleasing proportions or positioning in regards to the other date/time text. I'd make it smaller, and bottom-aligned.
- The centering on the RAM usage data needs to be left-aligned.
- I think this might be more interesting if you utilized the left/right, dark/light dynamic more, by having the labels of system info in red or black in the left gutter, with the data itself in white to the right, a la the clock. Perhaps experiment with this more and have some styled like the clock, some with the current styling.
@AmphetamineCrown: Command line, or keyboard launcher, comes into this. "kill -exename-", so it kinda helps to know the exe name :P
Also, no taskbar, so if I minimize a game, it shows up there.
Check out Screenshot Contest '09.
It's being held @ [pixelfuckers.us]
The site is still in beta stages, but it has a strong user base of experienced skinners and customizers. Sign up and rate the submissions if you'd like.
@Phoshi: Keeping tabs on it would make sense if there were ways of fixing it on the fly. Unless something specific has really locked up (in which case I've gotta head to the task manager to kill something anyway), my answer to these problems is usually a hard boot.
Does anyone else think the "9" looks like a smaller font than the "55"? Is this an optical illusion driven by the contrast ratios?
AmphetamineCrown
@johnhorneguitar: You don't like it, some people do. To each his own. :)
voyage2k
@Jeffrey Bernard Yozwiak: it's a design style. Why would you keep it in all one colour? I guess he could have highlighted another part of the screen, but they chose to highlight the hour of the time.
IMO, nice work, looks sexy!
atomicrabbit
@nitzua: You've pretty much complained on every single desktop we've featured here.
It's time for you to either stop whining, or contribute something helpful.
And before you start complaining again that we haven't featured your desktops, you haven't submitted anything to the group in months (until today)... And the one you submitted today is too blurry and small to really see anything.
Enough with the negativity.
Looks good, but I still don't understand why anyone needs to have system stats available at a glance.
@Phoshi: The screenshots at customize.org may be out of the realm of this site in terms of complexity and completeness, but each one definitely has at least something about it's configuration that could inspire a user without as much dedication/time on their hands. This is as close to a default Mac desktop as you can get, save for the user installing GeekTool, changing the wallpaper, and autohiding the dock. What's it supposed to inspire folks to do? As many have already stated, there is near no real purpose for putting uptime and ram/cpu usage on ones desktop. If customize.org desktops are too showoff/too much effort for too little gain, putting useless stats and a giant clock smack dab in the middle of the desktop is too little effort for no real gain, aka pointless. Don't even get me started on why a blog post would need to be dedicated to such a desktop...
@Jeffrey Bernard Yozwiak: Yes!
Jeffrey Bernard Yozwiak
@fosphen: It's most definitely possible to spend 20-30 minutes on your desktop and come up with something spectacular.
@Jeffrey Bernard Yozwiak:
You mean left, right?
joe18521
@nitzua: ....which could have possibly led to more productive work being done rather than spending hours distracted by configuring his desktop.
Just saying..
Another rare instance of a desktop that i like.
@nitzua: It's nice, don't be so negative. I realise you come from a different crowd, but many frankly I don't -like- the desktops I see on customize.org, they're too showoff. Too much effort for too little gain.
@nitzua: Lies and slander :P
@puntai: It's interesting. Try watching a bandwidth graph of a slow loading youtube video, it's jaggy. More reasonably, torrent speeds at a glance? Yes please.
Not much going on here. This looks really unpolished and spur-of-the-moment. It can't have taken more than 10 minutes to put together.
@AmphetamineCrown: Apps can lock up, have memory leaks, and before you know it - bam, system instability, lockups, fires, and genocide. I find keeping tabs on things helps me keep everything running smoothly, though I have moved to a minimal display with a toggleable detailed pane.
Very nice desktop, great use of color!
I like having the time/date in the menubar, but this is still one of the better desktops I've seen. Great job!
Elly
@puntai: It's filler. Nothing else.
I'm a fan of minimalism, but I don't understand the giant gray bar on the right. (I know it shows the hour, but why highlight it in such a startling manner?)
Jeffrey Bernard Yozwiak
Nicely done. I still don't understand why people need to monitor their CPU and RAM... is your computer really that slow?
puntai
@AmphetamineCrown: I agree. I've played around with putting various system stats on my desktop for as long as I can remember and its just never been anything that I've stuck with. The time, date (or better yet calendar), and weather with a couple of days of forecasted weather is about all I ever end up with.
driggity
@AmphetamineCrown: I should say, btw, that I actually kind of like the scheme.
AmphetamineCrown
I don't want to single out this desktop, but there's a feature here I've now seen so many times on so many desktops that I'm finally being driven to ask...
Why do people want RAM, CPU usage, and other similar things displayed on their desktop at all times? I pull up the task manager when I want to check that stuff, which is... almost never. Is there something I'm just obliviously ignoring that I shouldn't be? Does this stuff actually tell you something, other than "the computer is working hard"--which I can usually detect from general slowness anyway?
AmphetamineCrown
This is the only featured desktop I've seen here that I would actually consider using. A lot of the other ones are way too clustered.
joe18521
I love this desktop, good use of contrasting color and seems easy on the eyes. I like that you got rid of the clock from the menu bar to not duplicate information. Kudos
SRone2
I don't like the smaller text, but I like the overall theme. For the smaller text, I'd move it up a bit, add another line to weather, and reverse-order them. Also consider using AA, if possible - I can't stand jaggy fonts ;P
@FLEB: That would be pretty interesting. I'm sure there's a way, but you may not be able to get the textured background, although I'm not sure
really
atomicrabbit
@Jacob_Grimm: Actually, that should be "hair-trigger", instead it is stupidly spelled as the title to a Bugs Bunny short when it should not have been. So much for the careful shaping of responses.
Jacob_Grimm
@peanut_butter: I actually agree with you about the fourth paragraph down (the basics, not so much the automated posting since I didn't get the impression everyone who chooses to comment should feel obligated to back-pat the person on a desktop design they simply don't like).
I mentioned him getting the ability to comment disabled not because I find he's deserving of it but just as a call on what I've seen since they rolled out the big post detailing the "Auto-Ban" a few months back and how often and quickly it seems that Adam is the one to strip people, some deserving and others questionably not, of their ability to comment.
Disabling is all well and good but a hare-trigger on the tool used to do it is another thing. Clearly The How-to-Geek differs in how he perceives comments (definitely a more easy-going approach that leaves room for even the staunchest of opinion) and definitely deserves some recognition for not just stripping people of their "voice", as it were, in this community for every little supposed indiscretion.
Jacob_Grimm
@UshaTelamon: I know where you're coming from. I keep looking at all these very cool desktops on Lifehacker and then thinking that unless I had an enormous screen (26" or more) then I wouldn't actually see the desktop much, except when the computer is out of use (and therefore consuming energy for no valid reason)
luxaeternam
@Jeffrey Bernard Yozwiak: Now, if there was just some way to get it to move across the screen as the day progressed... that would be cool.
FLEB
@nitzua: I know I am probably going to get bashed on this but I have to completely side with nitzua on this one.
Not saying this isn't neat and simple - but hardly a featured desktop. Remove that catchy grey textured bar and all you have are five stats arranged with custom fonts and sizes.
Some people are just bashing him for no reason whatsoever (DogHead - he's arranged it in rows and columns like any sane person - almost any desktop has that) and pointing out his own submission which has no relation to the post in question. So who cares that nitzua's posts are always negative as longs as they all have valid points.
And to the people who are talking about negative posting and banning him - why don't you set up an automation system to post "Cool! Great desktop!" for every featured desktop - which is all you seem to want in a post. I'm not saying that what he posted is constructive criticism - but it is no worse really than a positive comment with no content. We all have opinion - so if we think something is crap, we say so.
Overall I think this desktop is far below lifehacker standards which I thought was coming up very well in the last couple of desktops.
peanut_butter
@jesuswhammy: I know what he was trying to accomplish, and I'm well aware that his design wasn't meant for mass appeal. hawkweisman even brought up the fact that he submitted another version of this screenshot with more open windows and showing much more customization. My main gripe would then be, why not show that shot? As you (and hundreds of others before you, including me) have stated, desktop customization is a matter of personal preference. Why, then, would the FD posts not show a screenshot with several customizations in place. Then, if a user liked the clock in the screenshot, but nothing else, he'd look to the instructions and replicate the clock. If he liked the Adium skin, he'd go and grab/install that. If he liked the icons, he'd download them apply them to his machine. Showing a simple GeekTool config does nothing but show the basic capabilities of GeekTool, which several past FDs have done quite well. Call me crazy, but I'm bloody sick of explaining myself in regards to a point that I see as very blatantly obvious.
@Atamagaii: You guys act like I came in from nowhere and started flaming this post in particular. I'm extremely passionate about desktop customization and would just like to see the craft represented in a more inspiring light. I've been weighing in on almost every FD post since their inception.
Also, when I respond to a comment, and someone responds to my response, where else am I to carry on a discussion based on what was said? Would you rather my posts replying to a specific response be littered throughout the comments, creating unnecessary havoc? I've been commenting on FD posts for over a year now, and the lack of actual discussion (rather than flaming) stemming from my critiques has been almost non-existent other than from Phoshi, so I've grown a tad bitter. I'll try and offer more constructive criticism. What more can I do? Banning people who don't agree with you outright isn't going to solve much, if you've learned anything.
@voyage2k:
Yeah, I'm sure some people like it, people like lots of stuff. I admit that it even looks pretty cool and all, but no one has ever told me if it's useful to have that info at a glance. Most people I've met that are into displaying that kind of info have powerful machines that aren't going to run out of memory under normal conditions.
So I ask: "Are there folks for whom it is necessary to have system stats available at a glance, or is this just eye-candy?"
@nitzua: I concur that you are in fact being pretty negative. This desktop was designed by him for him, not by him for you. He wanted to have a minimalistic desktop where he can simply see the important things that HE wants to see. He did it with a very simple and basic design, however, he still did it with fashion. Seeing that I don't look at my desktop a whole lot (aside from booting up and down) and since I just use my dock and quicksilver to do everything, I could definitely see myself doing something like this just to use with Expose'. I would recommend that you spend less time complaining and nit picking or at least only comment on what you might add (or in some cases take away) to make this more efficient or appealing to yourself. As they said before, your lucky it wasn't Adam, where he probably would have just BanHammered you due to you annoying him.
jesuswhammy
@nitzua: Don't know about the perceived negativity some are pointing at but I'm surprised you aren't slightly appreciative that The How-to-Geek does most of these particular posts, since I get the feeling if it were Adam doing it, then he'd likely have disabled your ability to comment on either the first or second post of yours he deemed to be more complaint-ridden than anything else.
Jacob_Grimm
@Cwicseolfor: On second thought... larger than 72pt... try 96.
Cwicseolfor
@OrazioAloeus: The GeekTool shell commands were posted above, but as far as I can tell about the font it's Century Gothic... the size is somewhere around 72pt. Enjoy.
Cwicseolfor
@SRone2: That's not the clock in the menubar, that's the Time Machine status menu item.
olafBerserker
Great idea... until you have a window up and are wondering "hey, what time is it?"
Unless the clock in the upper right is only missing when Finder is in the foreground... but that doesn't mean that there aren't windows that cover up the clock.
Nice, but I would have left the clock in the menubar.
fuzzycuffs
@AmphetamineCrown: I do. 64 Bit windows gets scrapped together software. iTunes 64 bit can quickly leak into a 4GB application, and Source Engine isn't any better, at one point leaking into the 8 GB range with HL:Source. The CPU isn't vital to me for monitoring.
Good heavens... All in favour of banning user "nitzua"?
He's been nothing but obnoxious in this discussion. Not to mention his million different replies to a single comment...
For the record, keep these featured desktops coming. They're...inspiring...somehow.
Reminds me of the zune software
Chenzel
How do I change the icon set?
NessaSea lion
Do you know what font he's using in geek tool?
EldwinBababooey
Although I love the way the desktop looks, I don't see how it's productive. I'm a freelance designer, so if I'm working on something, I usually have it filling up the whole of my external 20" monitor, it might be a few windows of code (XHTML and CSS) or a PS document, or a Numbers spreadsheet, and on my 15" MBP display I have Webkit and Adium. If I want to see my CPU/RAM usage, fan speed, or the date/time, then I glance at iStat Menus, and it's all there in the menu bar for me. I also have Meteorologist giving me the weather, my alarm clock, Skype, and Adium. Hiding all of my application windows half way through working on something just to check my CPU/RAM seems slightly counter productive.
Although I tend to agree, it's there because it can be, not because I use it very often.
Jon Mack
I'm bugged that there are no real instructions on how to make these desktops look like this. There's always the generic instructions about the application. Not really interested in figuring out how to do it.
UshaTelamon
@nitzua: it's actually pixelfuckers.org, if anyone cares.
@Jacob_Grimm: What I meant about the automated posting is that most lifehacker posters feel (or at least it seems that way) that they either have to congratulate the creator or not post at all. All negative posts are immediately pounced upon and devoured without thought for their possibly valid points.
For example - look at the number of posts in this very thread that expresses a positive opinion in a single line with no content. Are they really any worse than a negative opinion of the same length (aka nitzua). Don't they deserve to get banned too. Either ban them all or don't ban any of them.
Only if posters express their opinion can everybody judge the quality of a post.
Personally I feel that opinions should be independently of the post (as a poll or such). Posts should be dedicated to discussion or criticism (eg Phoshi's first post)
Thank you btw for explaining you post and I'm sorry if I sounded rude.
peanut_butter
sorry, the link to the pic didn't work.
[img257.imageshack.us]
atomicrabbit
@fjpoblam: Actually, I guess my post is out of line: I SHOULD be talking about THIS desktop. Sorry. For my tastes, I'd want to change the reds to a little more muted blue. I really couldn't handle staring at such a garish red all day. So, for other such items in the desktop, I wonder if the author included user controls?
hey people. For those of you on Windows, this is definitely possible with the help of Samurize (as nitzua mentioned). Check out the pic below:
atomicrabbit
I guess I'm still an Interfacelift addict: I'd rather have a beeuuutiful picture for a desktop, then quickly move my cursor to one corner of the screen to flash up the dashboard for a gadget to show me system monitoring information and the plethora of weather gadgets I have. (I'm a weather junkie, too.)
Wow, a cool look. Nice!
What is with all this negativity?
NO ONE can say its good or bad. It is an opinion.
Enjoy it, or click away why don't you(you know who you are)?
jbruced
@hawkweisman:
You beat me to it Hawk :P
I would have said exactly that. No suprise that we know each other well; we even think close enough to want to make the same comments on Lifehacker! :D
I like this very much. There's enough info, but the stats are not intrusive, letting you cocentrate on getting things done without distraction.
Guybrush Threepwood
@peanut_butter:
If you can't figure out the difference between a pointless positive comment, and a pointless negative comment, let me do my best to explain it to you.
Negative comments make people defensive, unless they offer some valid criticism, in which case any intelligent person would begin to perceive it as constructive. A positive comment, however pointless it may be, does not ignite people in the same way. In fact, it probably makes them feel good. Such a shame, right? And we all know the ultimate point of the banhammer is to remove problematic members from the comment pool, as to avoid future altercations.
Nitzua came into this thread and posted three sentences of negativity with nothing constructive backing them up. How is it unpolished? What point are you trying to prove by stating "it probably took 10 minutes"?
If he had explained his reasoning, perhaps he would have fostered a more positive, constructive environment in the subsequent posts. Of course, that just isn't as fun as running into a post and acting like a jackass with something to prove.
And for you, I recommend you learn a little more about communication. If you still can't see why a pointless, yet positive comment is less destructive than a pointless negative comment, perhaps the banhammer needs to aim for you next. Also, and I'm sure this will surprise you, but you can actually be positive while expressing criticism.
"Congratulations on the Lifehacker post, Hawk. I do have a few complaints that I'd like to share with you. It feels a little rushed, because of x and y. I also preferred your other submitted link, with the additional modifications that I've linked to below. etc."
Wow, so very hard.
Skick
@Jon Mack: On a Mac you can use HotCorners to see your desktop. I'm using a similar design, and to see how much I'm stressing my CPU or whatever, it's a simple swipe into the bottom left corner and all my windows fly away. Swipe again, back to work.
SoaringDisbelief
@Skick: All I wanted was to give people a different perspective on this.
Look at your last post, is that positive? No. Maybe it was rather negative. I still prefer it to someone just saying "great post" or something similar because I can feel your annoyance. I can understand what you are saying much better and I know your opinion.
The point that "it probably took 10 minutes" is that there was not a lot of thought or effort put into this setup. You could have called this thread how to use Geek Tool and it would have been no more different.
How does positive = constructive. Nobody is being destructive, just stating an opinion.
So according to you even a pathetic post should be lauded just to keep people spirits up. I prefer lifehacker with quality content (like now) with opinion's form its readers keeping it that way.
If I had written your sample post I would be a total hypocrite. Why should I congratulate him unless I really feel like it. Why should I mince my words rather than express myself openly. I'm sure Hawk is mature enough not to take it personally.
BTW threatening me with the banhammer ruined a top-class post.
peanut_butter
Simple! Make 12 [or 24 if you use the 24-hour desktop system] variations of the wallpaper and throw them all in a folder based on the hour they're made from [1, 2, etc.], so that they sort alphabetically. Have OS X change wallpapers every hour, and limit it to the folder you placed all of your wallpapers in. As long as shuffle is turned off, it should be fairly reliable. Now as far as moving the GeekTool script - I'm sure someone far smarter than me will be able to figure that out in no time ;)
SuryakantiJebberz
Any step by step guide on how to set up GeekTool with the correct font and such?
Jonathan Townend
Hawkweisman, I"m love with this desktop and want to recreate it for myself, but I'm a complete dunce when it comes to Geektool, which I've only just downloaded. Would you be so kind as to clarify how to enter these commands? Thanks from a Geektool noob.
ColetteSturgeon
This critique has been raised a lot, but Exposé and allow you to access your desktop instantly (or on a MBP, as HAWK is using, with a fourfinger up-swipe) and see all the system vitals, so you only see them when you want to see them.
OtisAntiphates
Do you guys have any idea how can i have this on my windows machine with rainmeter? it's so simple and i like that.
rockstyle
Here is a grid wallpaper that I made. You can use to layout the GeekTool info =) One with the menubar in min and one without. Perfection is the key!!!
[img189.imageshack.us]
/w
@hawkweisman: Ahh, lets call it teamwork eyh! I have another one coming up, maybe you can remix that one if you want to =)
Cheers!
@EldwinBababooey: It is called STHeiti, I think that it comes standard in OS X. =)
Sitting here and zippin' on a cold beer, opens NetNewsWire and sees this post, wtf?? Woodztream, that's me! =) Nice to see someone putting my stuff too use!
I am currently working on another desktop: [www.flickr.com]
Cheers from Sweden!
woodztream