#Geektool mac help update#

#Geektool mac help update#

The only time interval allowed is seconds, which makes for lots of math when you want to update something twice a day, once a week, once a month, etc. You can even specify any window as an 'always on top' window, in which case it will float over all other OS X objects (including the dock).Įntering the update intervals is more difficult than it need be. Each of the types of GeekTool tasks has its own settings, along with universal options for update interval, window size, position, color, and (if applicable) text. You create new entries in groups, and then assign a task (display a file, output from a shell command, or show an image) to that entry. GeekTool's interface is a bit confusing and can be somewhat daunting to understand, but it gets easier the more you use it. And no, I don't normally devote this much screen space to GeekTool toys my usual set is just the uptime display, cal output, and (on interesting weather days) the weather map. The top left image is the Portland Doppler radar, which gets refreshed every 10 minutes, and to the right of that is an infrared image of the sun, updated every four hours. To the right of the calendar is a three-month Apple stock chart, updated every five minutes. The calendar output is only updated once per day. In the left corner is a calendar, courtesy of the cal command (as discussed in the linked hint above). At the very bottom of the screen, the output of the uptime command is displayed, and it updates automatically every 15 minutes. I've got five separate GeekTool tasks running in the above image.