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iTunes, the menu bar, unicode, and GeekTool
A good idea, else if I wonder how you managed to have some space available on the menu bar (I use 1280x1024 and have none... :-( )
I did something similar with GeekTool, but in a small window at the bottom of the screen, and with more infos (track, time, Album, Equalization, Genre). Here's the script:
As you can see the scripts checks if iTunes is running. If not, it does not execute the applescript as this would launch iTunes, but displays an informative message. I call this shell script (I named it "whichTune") from GeekTool, using a small 3-lined translucent window with a really small font size (but readable). The only drawback is the idle period between calls: as iTunes does not send events when a track changes, I must decide the frequency of checks; I opted for 15 seconds to reduce waste of cycles, but it's all your choice. [robg adds: IMPORTANT NOTE ... I wrapped the above script for a much narrower display. When entering it, remove the line breaks on the "if" line until the line before "else." Replace each line break with a single space.]
iTunes, the menu bar, unicode, and GeekTool
Once you get a cinema display (1600x1050 or higher), you'll have an incredible amount of wasted menu bar space. I also use the space to display the name of the senders of incoming messages. |
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