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    Geektool RSS feed script?

    Hello. I've searched high and low on the internet to find an RSS feed script that can help me show the new shows that are being aired via the followshows.com website. I've found a bunch, but none of them work the way I would like them to. What I'm looking for is a script that will show the...
  2. Fereous

    Mojave Mystery

    A funny thing happened since I switched from High Sierra. In Terminal commands like date +%A and date +%B give output in Swedish (”Måndag” and ”Mars”, respectively), but Geektool outputs ”Monday” and ”March” in English. Same thing happens to ncal. The calendar just below (25 mars 2019) runs...
  3. galgot

    macOS Geektool displaying current track playing on a web radio?

    Hi ! My first question here :) I’m listening to a online station called Fip, using cmus for that, on Mac osx 10.11. I use Geektool too. Now I would like to have geektool display the current playing track/artist/album (or album cover) on my desktop. There is an online player for that station ...
  4. hayduek

    Geektool Humidity only script

    Hey Now... So I've been messing with Geektool and I'm not trying to do anything fancy, just single text lines. So far i've got time, day/date/month/year, standard weather, and feels like temp. Each one is in it's own separate shell. The weather data is extracted from accuweather.com. Since I...
  5. MrSmith

    Geektool Yahoo stock quotes discontinued

    I have the following GeekTool stock quote that has recently stopped working: echo AAPL: $`curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=aapl&f=l1'` The url now says ‘It has come to our attention that this service is being used in violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service. As such...
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    Geektool Bitcoin Check

    I have a geektool script to check bitcoin buy price on coinbase, but it is not working. curl --silent https://coinbase.com/charts | grep -E '(Buy Price <strong>|><BR)' | sed 's/[^.0-9]*//g' | Do I need to install additional things to fix it or is my code just wrong? Thanks!
  7. bunk.meister

    Geektool Geektool help

    Hello I am new here and just got my first Apple Computer (Macbook pro). I discovered the program Geektool and am very interested in using it. My first question is what is the best way to save geeklets so you don't lose them? I guess I just don't understand how it works to save them after you...
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    How to fix date format conversion code

    Hey guys so my geektool broke in sierra which i got from the net which shows when the last time time machine had run.. The code is #!/bin/sh lastbackupdate=$(grep "Backup completed" /var/log/system.log | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $1" "$2" "$3}') if [ "$lastbackupdate" = "" ] ; then echo...
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    Geektool Need help with live Twitter feed.

    Hey guys, gonna keep this short and sweet. I installed 'T' to get a live twitter feed, which is available in the command line. It works perfectly fine in the command line, but when I paste the command t timeline --long | cut -d' ' -f6- Into Geektool, nothing shows. It's getting a response...
  10. jwiggiff

    GeekTool: Pin to space option not working?

    Hello, I use geektool daily on my macbookpro and i see this new feature in the new update. it says "Pin to Space" which I assume is the spaces (Formerly Éxpose) on os x. When i enable it as soon as i close geektool it unchecked itself. Also if I set a geeklet to height 0 then if i restart...