Interesting.
I've since restarted GeekTool. It's only been about an hour but it's now holding steady at just over 60MB real mem.
No idea what caused it to jump to over 1.4GB...
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Interesting.
I've since restarted GeekTool. It's only been about an hour but it's now holding steady at just over 60MB real mem.
No idea what caused it to jump to over 1.4GB...
I looked at this memory used a bit more.
With Activity Monitor open, I killed GeekTool ("GT") and restarted it. I'm on my home machine now (before I was @ work w/ a different GT setup) and GT is using ~ 46MB real mem after having initially opened the GT prefs and closing it. If I then subsequently re-open the GT prefs and close them -- and repeat this a number of time (i.e. when working on geeklets) -- the amount of real mem consumed will climb. Try it: 1) open Activity Monitor, 2) open Sys prefs, 3) click GT, 4) click Show All to close the GT prefs, 5) repeat 3 and 4 a number of times and see the real mem increase.
You can also make the real mem it skyrocket by 1) opening the GT prefs, 2) click on, say, your desktop or some other app to move the focus from GT to that app, 3) click on the GT prefs window to focus it again, 4) repeat 2 and 3 a number of times.
So long story short, once a user has all his geeklets set up, its wise to restart GeekTool to release any unnecessarily consumed memory.
Hey, that's me!!
I was wondering if someone could help me out with this. I've put everything together as described. What I don't know is where to find the "/tmp directory" and where it says "url goes here in quotations or else it won't work" is that URL "http://myepisodes.com/frontpage.php"?
Thanks
Do you have your scripts to share? I wish there was a way to export everything and the style that people have to easily share these things. Thanks
could you be more specific?
here are the scripts i have:
- 2 icalBuddy, 1 reuters news feed, 1 day in history feed, 1 battery info, 1 time machine last backup, 1 trash/downloads info, 1 airport/HD info, 1 uptime, 1 in/out speed, 2 weather info, 1 weather image, 2 personal images (school schedule and me and my girlfriend), 2 itunes and 2 calendars. all the white line are empty shell scripts with white background.
thats about it!
Going to make it simple so you don't have to create the directory in /tmp.
Update the Python code to the following:
Replace this line
Code:
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse("/tmp/geektool/myepisode_feed.xml")
Code:
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse("/tmp/myepisode_feed.xml")Update the geeklet command to the following:
Code:
curl --silent "url goes here in quotations or else it won't work" > /tmp/myepisode_feed.xml;
python /path/to/the/script/myepisode_feedgrabber.pyThe "url goes here in quotations or else it won't work" is your myepisode RSS Feed url.
/path/to/the/script/ is where ever you saved the python file.
You need to make the script executable by opening up the Terminal, and changing the directory to the location of the Python file
Code:
# cd /path/to/the/script
# chmod +x myepisode_feedgrabber.pySBMMR,
I was considering doing the same or at-least playing around with the idea. I ran across the following site the other day, but haven't had a chance to fiddle with it. Please post if it works out for you. http://tomgeerts.wordpress.com/
xtacocorex,
Thanks. I'll give this a shot, just got in.
I found BatChmod yesterday to Chmod the file, but I'll take the Terminal route that you posted.
I was considering doing the same or at-least playing around with the idea. I ran across the following site the other day, but haven't had a chance to fiddle with it. Please post if it works out for you. http://tomgeerts.wordpress.com/
xtacocorex,
Thanks. I'll give this a shot, just got in.
I found BatChmod yesterday to Chmod the file, but I'll take the Terminal route that you posted.
could you be more specific?
here are the scripts i have:
- 2 icalBuddy, 1 reuters news feed, 1 day in history feed, 1 battery info, 1 time machine last backup, 1 trash/downloads info, 1 airport/HD info, 1 uptime, 1 in/out speed, 2 weather info, 1 weather image, 2 personal images (school schedule and me and my girlfriend), 2 itunes and 2 calendars. all the white line are empty shell scripts with white background.
thats about it!
Are you willing share your scripts or a link to where I could see them?
i looked at the link, and i was messing something up with it, but i couldnt get it to work, so when i looked up more infor on geeklets(only my first day using geek tool) i did end up coming across this, and it worked. http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/system/display-time-in-words-fuzzy-clock/
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or just check Overwrite text: and write time... works both ways...
well, asking me which ones you wanted would of been easier, but i guess ill put all of them here... and my only source is the last 50 or so pages of this thread...
iCal 1 (top left):
Code:
/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -f -sd -b "" -ss "" -eep url -sed -ic "X","Y","Z","W" -tf %H:%M eventsToday+2 | sed -e "s/*/--/" | sed -e "s/!/!!/"
Code:
/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -f -sd -nc -b "" -eep url,notes -ic "V" -tf %H:%M eventsToday+1 | sed -e "s/*/--/" | sed -e "s/!/!!/"iTunes scripts: in geektool:
Code:
osascript /Users/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/iTunes.scpt
Code:
on run
set newline to ASCII character 10
set info to ""
tell application "System Events"
set num to count (every process whose name is "iTunes")
end tell
if num > 0 then
tell application "iTunes"
if player state is playing then
set who to artist of current track
set what to name of current track
set onwhat to album of current track
set stars to (rating of current track) / 20 as integer
set info to (what & "
" & who)
end if
end tell
end if
return info
end run
Code:
set displayLogic to "enhanced alt2"
tell application "System Events"
set powerCheck to ((application processes whose (name is equal to "iTunes")) count)
if powerCheck = 0 then
return "✖"
else
-- This section moved to avoid launching iTunes when the script is run.
tell application "iTunes"
try
set playerstate to (get player state)
end try
if playerstate = paused then
set trackStatus to "❚❚ "
else
set trackStatus to "▶ "
end if
try
set trackID to the current track
set trackplaylist to name of current playlist
set trackName to the name of trackID
set artistName to the artist of trackID
set albumName to the album of trackID
set tracktime to the time of trackID
set trackplaycount to the played count of trackID
set ratetrack to the rating of trackID
if ratetrack < 20 then
set trackrating to "☆"
else
if ratetrack < 40 then
set trackrating to "★"
else
if ratetrack < 60 then
set trackrating to "2★"
else
if ratetrack < 80 then
set trackrating to "3★"
else
if ratetrack < 100 then
set trackrating to "4★"
else
set trackrating to "5★"
end if
end if
end if
end if
end if
--set trackdur to the duration of trackID
--set trackdur to round {trackdur}
--set trackskip to the skipped count of trackID
if displayLogic = "enhanced alt2" then
if playerstate = paused then
if albumName = "" then
set displaymain to trackName & " | " & artistName
else
set displaymain to trackName & " | " & artistName & " | " & albumName
end if
else
if albumName = "" then
set displaymain to "(" & tracktime & ") | " & trackrating & " | " & trackplaycount & "x" & " | " & trackplaylist
else
set displaymain to albumName & " | (" & tracktime & ") | " & trackrating & " | " & trackplaycount & "x" & " | " & trackplaylist
end if
end if
else
set displaymain to trackStatus & " " & trackName & " | " & artistName
end if
on error
if playerstate = stopped then
set trackStatus to "◼"
end if
end try
end tell
end if
end tell
Code:
curl --silent http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews.rss > /tmp/news_feed.xml;
Code:
curl http://www.infoplease.com/rss/dayinhistory.rss | grep CDATA | sed -e 's/\(.*\[\)//' -e 's/\].*//'
Code:
du -sh ~/.Trash/ | awk '{print "Trash: " $1}'
du -sh ~/Downloads/ | awk '{print "Dwnlds: " $1}'
Code:
# System Tools Script
#!/bin/sh
#Connections
myen0=`ifconfig en0 | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{print $2}'`
if [ "$myen0" != "" ]
then
echo "Ethernet : $myen0"
#else
# echo "Ethernet : INACTIVE"
fi
myen1=`ifconfig en1 | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{print $2}'`
if [ "myen1" != "" ]
then
echo "AirPort: $myen1";
else
echo "Airport: INACTIVE"
fi
#Uptime, Ram, HDD
df -Hl | grep 'disk0s2' | awk '{print $4"/"$2" free ("$5")"}'
# top -l 2 |awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $1, ":", $3, $4}'
# top -l 2 |awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $1, ":", $5, $6}'
# top -l 2 |awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $1, ":", $7, $8}'
Code:
uptime | awk '{sub(/[0-9]|user\,|users\,|load/, "", $6); sub(/mins,|min,/, "min", $6); sub(/user\,|users\,/, "", $5); sub(",", "min", $5); sub(":", "h ", $5); sub(/[0-9]/, "", $4); sub(/day,/, " day ", $4); sub(/days,/, " days ", $4); sub(/mins,|min,/, "min", $4); sub("hrs,", "h", $4); sub(":", "h ", $3); sub(",", "min", $3); print $3$4$5$6}'
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# created by chris helming.
# chris dot helming at gmail
# get the current number of bytes in and bytes out
myvar1=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en1" -m 1 | awk '{print $7}'` # bytes in
myvar3=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en1" -m 1 | awk '{print $10}'` # bytes out
#wait one second
sleep 1
# get the number of bytes in and out one second later
myvar2=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en1" -m 1 | awk '{print $7}'` # bytes in again
myvar4=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en1" -m 1 | awk '{print $10}'` # bytes out again
# find the difference between bytes in and out during that one second
subin=$(($myvar2 - $myvar1))
subout=$(($myvar4 - $myvar3))
# convert bytes to kilobytes
kbin=`echo "scale=2; $subin/1024;" | bc`
kbout=`echo "scale=2; $subout/1024;" | bc`
# print the results
echo "In: $kbin kb/s"
echo "Out: $kbout kb/s"
Code:
/Users/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/vertical_calendar_with_gap.sh
Code:
#!/bin/bash
calendar=`cal`
heute=`date +%e`
if [ "$heute" -lt 10 ]; then
heute=${heute:1:1}
fi
monat=`date +%m`
jahr=`date +%Y`
for (( i=1; i<10; i++ )); do
if [ "$i" -eq "$heute" ]; then
echo -ne `date -j $monat'0'$i'0405'$jahr +%a`
echo -ne " "
echo $i
exit
else
echo " "
fi
done
for (( i=10; i<=${calendar:(-2)}; i++ )); do
if [ "$i" -eq "$heute" ]; then
echo -ne `date -j $monat$i'0405'$jahr +%a`
echo -ne " "
echo $i
exit
else
echo " "
fi
done
Code:
#!/bin/bash
calendar=`cal`
heute=`date +%e`
if [ "$heute" -lt 10 ]; then
heute=${heute:1:1}
fi
monat=`date +%m`
jahr=`date +%Y`
for (( i=1; i<10; i++ )); do
if [ "$i" -eq "$heute" ]; then
echo " "
else
echo -ne `date -j $monat'0'$i'0405'$jahr +%a`
echo -ne " "
echo $i
fi
done
for (( i=10; i<=${calendar:(-2)}; i++ )); do
if [ "$i" -eq "$heute" ]; then
echo " "
else
echo -ne `date -j $monat$i'0405'$jahr +%a`
echo -ne " "
echo $i
fi
done
Code:
curl "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0301&u=c" | grep -e "Forecast:" -A 3 | tail -n 3 | sed -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' | sed "s/\(.*\)\.\ \(.*\)/\1\?\2/" | tr "?" "\n" | sed "s/High\:\ \(.*\)\ Low\:\ \(.*\)/\?H\: \1\ L\:\ \2/" | sed "s/\?\(.*\)/\\1/"
Code:
curl "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0301&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//'
Code:
curl --silent "http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/canada/quebec/montreal-3534/" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\\:url(\\'\\(.*\\)\\')\\;\\ _background.*/\\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png\
Code:
tell application "System Events" to set iCalIsRunning to (name of processes) contains "Mail"
set finalText to ""
if iCalIsRunning then
tell application id "com.apple.mail"
set unreadCount to (get unread count of inbox)
if unreadCount = 1 then
set finalText to "①"
else if unreadCount = 2 then
set finalText to "②"
else if unreadCount = 3 then
set finalText to "③"
else if unreadCount = 4 then
set finalText to "④"
else if unreadCount = 5 then
set finalText to "⑤"
else if unreadCount > 5 then
set finalText to "∞"
else
set finalText to ""
end if
end tell
end if
Code:
ioreg -l | grep -i capacity | tr '\n' ' | ' | awk '{printf ("%.1f%%", $10/$5 * 100)}'oh yeah, sorry for the long post. but its a good sum up of a lot of scripts. ask me if you have any questions.
Codes that contain "/tmp"
I was hoping to fix this today. It seems that any code I attempt to use that contains "/tmp" won't work on my machine. What do I need to set up, install, etc. in order to make this folder work for me? I'd rather fix it than find ways around it.
Thanks for any help.
I was hoping to fix this today. It seems that any code I attempt to use that contains "/tmp" won't work on my machine. What do I need to set up, install, etc. in order to make this folder work for me? I'd rather fix it than find ways around it.
Thanks for any help.
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Like a file that spelled out the color, font, desktop dimensions, geeklet size,content, and screen position, all in one package? That would be very cool. Not only for sharing, but also quickly getting a new mac set up, or for quickly trying out various arrangements with different wallpapers.
We can export geeklets now, but some kind of Geektool "theme" editor/applier would be nice too.
brenm666,
Thanks for the scripts. I tried your "reuters feed:" and because I have a /tmp folder problem I changed the path to another folder. In that folder I see the "news_feed.xml" file updating and even opened it and saw the latest news, but it doesn't show on the desktop. Any clue why it's not showing up?
Thanks for the scripts. I tried your "reuters feed:" and because I have a /tmp folder problem I changed the path to another folder. In that folder I see the "news_feed.xml" file updating and even opened it and saw the latest news, but it doesn't show on the desktop. Any clue why it's not showing up?
That's odd as /tmp is a system folder. You could always change /tmp to somewhere else in my codes, it could be a random folder in your users folder.
pretty sure thats what "export" does (top of the properties window). never actually thought about exporting mines... i might do a compressed folder with a bunch of them someday... maybe.
try this on terminal, then go on your HD in finder.
Code:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finderto hide the files, same code, but with FALSE instead of TRUE
one last thing, i forgot to thank all the people writing the codes (like xtacocorex for example...
) the only thing i do is basically copy/paste for most of them...
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Can somebody help me with this script?
Want to put this graph into my geektool:
http://www.google.com/finance/chart?cht=c&q=aapl,rimm,msft
Thanks!
Want to put this graph into my geektool:
http://www.google.com/finance/chart?cht=c&q=aapl,rimm,msft
Thanks!
What issue are you having?
Using an Image geeklet with that URL should do it; seems to work for me - I'll refresh it in a day to see if it changes at all, though.
found a way to get the CPU temperature. but you need TemperatureMonitor (http://www.bresink.com/osx/0TemperatureMonitor/download.php5)
add -a to see all the temps you can have, -l to see what the temp is (battery, CPU, etc.)
Code:
/Applications/TemperatureMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/tempmonitor -dsadd -a to see all the temps you can have, -l to see what the temp is (battery, CPU, etc.)
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