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GeekTool - Useful and fun info on the desktop
Authored by: zane on Jul 08, '04 05:44:48PM
This is a neat little prefpane - thanx rob for posting this, and kudos to Tynsoe.

This may seem pretty obvious and simple to most, but I just realized that with GeekTool you can make an excellent alternative to the Date & Time menulet if you want to reclaim some menu bar space.

I just ran a second instance of an uptime module, shrunk the window to 40x11, no-frame, always on top and placed it in the centre of my menu bar. Now I have a nice tiny little Monaco 9pt clock (no date), and about an inch of extra menu bar space.

Couple that with another uptime module on my desktop, and a cal module, and GeekTool has now become a permanent fixture of my daily working environment :D Now, what other geeky goodness can I get this thing to do...

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GeekTool - Useful and fun info on the desktop
Authored by: zane on Jul 08, '04 06:43:55PM
Just added a date to the menu with another module, using the date command. Neat :)

Here's a screenshot

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GeekTool - Useful and fun info on the desktop
Authored by: pascalpp on Jul 09, '04 01:40:45AM

you could do this with one module using the following command:

date "+%l:%m%n%a %b %e"

Set it to update every 60 seconds and tell GeekTool to center the text and it should look just like what you've got in your screenshot. this way you wouldn't have to run 2 uptime instances.

Type man strftime for more info on the date formatting codes used above.



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GeekTool - Useful and fun info on the desktop
Authored by: windrag on Jul 20, '04 02:30:34AM
Should read:
date "+%l:%M%n%a %b %e"
Note uppercase "M" (for minutes) as opposed to lowercase "m" (for month) rag

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GeekTool - Useful and fun info on the desktop
Authored by: zane on Dec 10, '04 03:33:55AM

6 months later, and I just noticed these replies. Nevertheless, excellento tips... even better. Thanks guys



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