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<blockquote data-quote="McYukon" data-source="post: 1048497" data-attributes="member: 101117"><p>Well I don't know any good step by steps, but it isn't that hard to use.</p><p>YouTube might have some good ones, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=GeekTool+3+Tutorial&aq=f" target="_blank">YouTube - GeekTool 3 Tutorial</a></p><p></p><p>First go to <a href="http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/" target="_blank">Geeklets - Share and vote on Geeklets for GeekTool</a> and pick out the one(s) you want to use. Once you have found a Geeklet that you like, hold the Option key and click the link to download it. Once downloaded, simply double-click on it and it will open it up in GeekTool, or you can copy and enter commands yourself.</p><p></p><p>If you want to enter the commands yourself,</p><p>Open Geektool and drag the shell icon to the desktop. Use as many of these shells on the desktop as you have scripts, one for the calendar one for the top command etc.</p><p><img src="http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/XlH9V.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.36.27%20PM.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Now there is a rectangular black box on the desktop, and this window should also be visible somewhere.</p><p>Click the … after the command field and paste into the resulting window the command.</p><p>The font can be any mono-spaced font, Courier is one of them.</p><p><img src="http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/XlKfV.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.36.51%20PM.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I use <strong>echo "test"</strong> here but you could also use <strong>cal | sed "s/^/ /;s/$/ /;s/ $(date +%e) / $(date +%e | sed 's/./#/g') /" </strong>for the calendar <strong>ps -arcwwwxo "command %cpu %mem" | grep -v grep | head -10</strong> for the CPU usage</p><p><img src="http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/XlL5B.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.37.31%20PM.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/Xm7bI.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.49.01%20PM.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McYukon, post: 1048497, member: 101117"] Well I don't know any good step by steps, but it isn't that hard to use. YouTube might have some good ones, [URL="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=GeekTool+3+Tutorial&aq=f"]YouTube - GeekTool 3 Tutorial[/URL] First go to [URL="http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/"]Geeklets - Share and vote on Geeklets for GeekTool[/URL] and pick out the one(s) you want to use. Once you have found a Geeklet that you like, hold the Option key and click the link to download it. Once downloaded, simply double-click on it and it will open it up in GeekTool, or you can copy and enter commands yourself. If you want to enter the commands yourself, Open Geektool and drag the shell icon to the desktop. Use as many of these shells on the desktop as you have scripts, one for the calendar one for the top command etc. [IMG]http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/XlH9V.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.36.27%20PM.png[/IMG] Now there is a rectangular black box on the desktop, and this window should also be visible somewhere. Click the … after the command field and paste into the resulting window the command. The font can be any mono-spaced font, Courier is one of them. [IMG]http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/XlKfV.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.36.51%20PM.png[/IMG] I use [B]echo "test"[/B] here but you could also use [B]cal | sed "s/^/ /;s/$/ /;s/ $(date +%e) / $(date +%e | sed 's/./#/g') /" [/B]for the calendar [B]ps -arcwwwxo "command %cpu %mem" | grep -v grep | head -10[/B] for the CPU usage [IMG]http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/XlL5B.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.37.31%20PM.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://files.droplr.com/files/20820206/Xm7bI.Screenshot%202010-05-06%20at%2012.49.01%20PM.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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