So I just jumped into OSX Snow Leopard 10.6 a few days ago. I like it so far although I’m not noticing amazing speed increases (with a fairly new macbook pro), I’m reading that I’m using about 1 gig of ram at startup… that’s pretty beefy. It did clear up about 30 gb’s of actual space for the install. It’s hard for me to speculate where it’s being used until iStat menus updates. None the less, I’m using candybar, geektool and yahoo widgets primarily. I’m also using hyperspaces and bowtie with an alt skin. I have been using different GUI mods for while now and I’m seriously missing Magnifique which is no longer valid with 10.6. My iTunes was modded by exchanging the core system iTunes.rsrc file, although in 10.6 the localization file helped to make the black type white… My previous core gui mods had held from outside magnifique. Comment with any questions you may have, I tried to address them all here with answers but I’m pretty sure I wasn’t specific enough.
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Love your Mod. Could you explain to all of us how you got that
fantastic desktop full of information?
Would love to do that to my system.
Thanks
Actually it’s really easy, you use Geektool which can output console commands on your desktop. I also use yahoo widgets to output the weather forecast.
Commands for geektool I use:
Date: date +%d
Day: date “+%A”
Month: date +%b
Year: date +%y
Time: date “+%l:%M”
Seconds: date “+%S”
Am/Pm: date “+%p”
Hard Drive Space: df -hl | grep ‘disk0s2′ | awk ‘{print $4″/”$2″ free (“$5″ used)”}’
Ram Used: top -l 1 | awk ‘/PhysMem/ {print “Used: ” $8 ” Free: ” $10}’
Current Weather: curl –silent “http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USNY1427&u=f” | grep -E ‘(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's///’ -e ‘s///’ -e ‘s///’ -e ‘s///’ -e ‘s///’ -e ‘s///’
(you have to replace “USNY1427″ with your location from yahoo weather)
Forecast: curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=11211 | awk ‘/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/’ | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html
You can find lots of geektool commands online as well that allow you to set up a calendar, load twitter in the bg, and a bunch of other things.
Hope that helps, here’s the link to geektool, runs fine on 10.6: http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
Michael, that’s amazing. Will try this later today. If I have any questions I will get
back to you. Should be no problem. Already been running GeekTool for the past
year to display a radar map from Weather.com. However, I had no idea I could do
all these extra cool things. Will experiment.
Your desktop is wondrous; I see how you got the information to display on the desktop, but how did you get your dock icons to display as you did?
Thanks Alex,
I use a program called Candybar to change the icons non-destructively, otherwise you can just download any icons you like and apple+i (get info) copy the icon, and then open whatever icon you’d like to change with apple+i (get info) and paste.
The icon set I’m currently using is blob by Martin Lexow http://www.martinlexow.de
It’s nice because he provides a psd file of the main icon file so that you can create all the necessary icons he may have not included in his original set he made. There is also a candy bar container that makes it easier to implement as well.
Thank you so much!
Could you possibly make a candybar icon pack with your icons, and your wallpaper. Please and thank you
It already is a candybar icon pack, but there is a template psd for other program icons it doesn’t include.
The icon set I’m currently using is blob by Martin Lexow http://www.martinlexow.de
The background I’m not sure where I got it unfortunately I can post a link to it later for you
It already is a candybar icon pack, but there is a template psd for other program icons it doesn’t include.
The background I’m not sure where I got it unfortunately I can post a link to it later for you
If you read in the comments above you’ll find the link
could you put this all into a zip or sumthing?
could you put this all into a zip or sumthing or is that not possible
You can download most of the assets online, some of them take a little bit of tuning to get the way you want them. If you read above you should find all the info you need.
What font are you using? I’ve been looking everywhere to try and find a nice sleek thin font. Many thanks!
I’m using Helvetica Neue just the thin variant, let me know if you have any more questions!
I tried using geektool with the commands and nothing shows. Am I doing something wrong?
My short answer would be yes… try looking around for commands that are listed on other pages, maybe when you copy and paste from here it loses something or adds something in translation…
i was wondering about your fancy iTunes theming. I have 10.6.2 and have themed iTunes, however when the iTunes update was released it destroyed the theme, making it look horrible. Could you post a link to the iTunes.rcsc file that you used?
I don’t remember what I had used, I’ll have to look and let you know… I’ll comment back on it tonight hopefully.
beautiful design! just curious, the flat black weather forecast, which widget is that? i guess im assuming thats a widget, given the reference to yahoo widgets in your post. thanks, have a great day!
Fantastic dude. im in the same boat however with magnifique. There is a freeware like application like candybar out there.. called LiteIcon and it does most of what candybar does for free, most not all. thank you very much for the info about geektool.
-Gurns
Amazing! I was wondering about the black forcast icons you had in the lower right of the desktop. Is that part of yahoo desktop, or is it done with geektool? If so, could you give us the command?
It’s actually a yahoo widget that you can style!
Could i just ask how you got the full name of the day to show, mine just shows mon, tue, wed etc,
Thanks
date “+%A” is the command I used for that
Michael,
I very much like your mod. I have even duplicated small parts of it. However, I have found that Geektool has some issues. Constant entries in the log, locking my system up, and locking the clock up. have you run across theses issues? Is so how have you gotten around them?
Thanks
I haven’t had any of those issues… I would report it to geektool’s developers so that they can adjust their programming accordingly
That`s truly impressive! it looks so so awesome!, great job mate!
i just downloaded the geektool app but i’m kinda afraid of how difficult would be turning my desktop to its current setting
(i used a certain app to turn the dock black and i ask myself if that could be a problem)
anyway… congratulations… your set up is wonderful.