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GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Mac OS 10.6. It let you display on your desktop different kind of informations, provided 3 default plugins:
- File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/log/system.log, or any file that you want to follow.
- Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like "df" to check space left on filesystems, "uptime" to monitor load of your machine...
- Image mode helps you monitor bandwith usage, CPU loads, memory availability of your server, via tools like MRTG or RRD.
What's New
Version 3.0: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Mac OS 10.6. It let you display on your desktop different kind of informations, provided 3 default plugins:
- File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/log/system.log, or any file that you want to follow.
- Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like "df" to check space left on filesystems, "uptime" to monitor load of your machine...
- Image mode helps you monitor bandwith usage, CPU loads, memory availability of your server, via tools like MRTG or RRD.
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Xente reviewed on 24 Jan 2012
waggonerwheel reviewed on 03 Jan 2012
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Mikebenda reviewed on 03 Oct 2011
It would be nice if the developers would provide a basic tutorial and perhaps step-by-step instructions for beginners. It would also be great if finished desktops could be "packaged" into template files that one could install.
I stopped using it after a day because I found that the time I had displayed on my desktop was always incorrect. The system time was correct and displayed correctly in the menu bar but not with this app. I searched but couldn't find a solution.
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Macmend.com reviewed on 26 Sep 2011
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1760713/GeekTool-3.0.2.zip/
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Petersphilo reviewed on 04 Sep 2011
I've been using it ever since it first came out!
It still works under Lion, except i can't figure out how to configure existing Geeklets, other than doing it in Snow Leopard, and using the preference files in Lion...
Oh well..
Small price to pay for such a great product
Also, contrary to a report below, GeekTool has a tiny --and stable-- memory footprint, and uses barely as much cpu as Terminal (it really all depends on what you do with it!!!)
Be Well All!
Peter
Ps:
here's the command to get the stats from 'top':
top -F -l1 -n0
If you want to show IP addresses connected to your machine:
netstat -f inet -n | grep '.548 ' | awk '{ print $5 }'
If you want just the Pageouts:
top -l 1 | awk '/VM/ {print "Pageouts: " $9}'
if you want just 'Used' and 'Free' memory:
top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "Used: " $8 " Free: " $10}'
Enjoy!
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http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets
Cheers!
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Billyok reviewed on 29 Dec 2010
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Simonm reviewed on 20 Dec 2009
I downloaded after seeing some cool desktops online but was surprised to find that it doesn't actually come with any scripts at all or any kind of ability to access scripts online, leaving novices dazed and confused about what to do next.
What's more, the developer doesn't have a repository of scripts on their homepage or even a forum for users to discuss and share their scripts. This leaves you with the only option of trawling the net to find examples of good scripts, which frankly seems like more effort than it's worth!
A little more help for novices and a few example scripts would go a long way, but I guess the geek attitude is you have to learn these things the hard way!
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Also, check out http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/ for some popular GeekTool scripts.
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itistoday reviewed on 27 Aug 2009
- GeekTool is currently taking up 200MB of RAM. This is unacceptable and makes it unusable for me. Such a small problem should not take up so much RAM. NerdTool by comparison takes up only 16.6MB (that could probably be improved too, but it's certainly better than 200).
- You can't put a drop shadow on the text from a shell script.
- You can't customize terminal colors as you can with NerdTool. I.e. I don't like what it picks for the default green, it'd be nice if that was something I could change.
- There's no way to change advanced text output like line spacing.
On the plus side though, unlike NerdTool, you when it says "stay on top", your tools will stay above the menubar which is very useful for doing stuff like replacing MenuMeters.
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nicolasd reviewed on 13 Aug 2009
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When it's behaving GeekTool is a must-have. This doesn't behave, at least not for me.
I check all colors in preferences and yet nothing is visible. I don't know if this curious piece of software is working or not.
For all intents and purposes, this program does nothing.
After downloading from the App Store, it is an application not a prefPane for the System Preferences. I must open it from my applications folder. The rest goes downhill as scripts from the web don't work for me.
Something ain't right and I think it's me.
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Recently featured over there, but I guess I'm shy and stick with Growl etc.
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top -ocpu -FR -l2 -n20 | grep '^....[1234567890] ' | grep -v ' 0.0% ..:' | cut -c 1-24,33-42,64-77
it doens't justify it, even if the terminal does (this holds also if I put the above inside a script).
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If the refresh time on a GT entry is greater than the sleep time, the machine will fall asleep. But that kind of eliminates the whole purpose of the utility if I can only refresh every 10 minutes. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, or at least experience the same problem I'm having?
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ztheil rated on 27 Jan 2012
N0b0d1 rated on 15 Jun 2011
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RiyadhDesigner rated on 13 Feb 2011
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Tobit rated on 11 Feb 2011