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Geektool Your Geektool scripts

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velvetelvis said:
ok, still not working for me. i have lynx installed, just double checked my app folder and its in there. once again, here is the link.

lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/cgi-...ry=95816|awk '/Temp/{printf $2, ": "; for (i=3; i<=3; i++) printf $i " " }'

thanks for all your help.
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Your link is wrong. Look at it. It's not a complete link. Click on it. It won't work.

Code: 
lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=95816|awk '/Temp/{printf $2, ": "; for (i=3; i<=3; i++) printf $i " " }'

That will work.
 
just to get this straight, i have to enter this into geektool? i ask because i used your script and it still isnt working.

nevermind its working.... only, it says "probabilityof" and then nothing.
 
velvetelvis said:
just to get this straight, i have to enter this into geektool? i ask because i used your script and it still isnt working.
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You may need to change the colors but the code I pasted in my last post, inserted into the Geektool preference pane in the displayed area, works. If you don't have Lynx installed, it won't work.
 

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That's odd, it must be how Weather Underground is reporting for that zip code. I entered it into my script and it says the same thing (Temp + Probability of...). Don't know where to go from there.
 
wow that date/cal script is very resource hogger... when it was on for me it maxed out my activity monitor but after taking it off i'm back down to minimal use..

i wish i had a C2D macbook now :(
 
acee88 said:
wow that date/cal script is very resource hogger... when it was on for me it maxed out my activity monitor but after taking it off i'm back down to minimal use..

i wish i had a C2D macbook now :(
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It really shouldn't take too much processor power even on the slowest machines it should be fine. You should try changing the refresh rate to a higher setting to minimize processor cycles. I believe the default refresh is every 10 seconds. For something like the month, this is way too often.
 
Will show your external IP address

Code: 
lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org | cut -d : -f 2
 

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damn i totally forgot about that.. i had it set to 0 haha no wonder why it hogged my resource.. now i set it to 10 and its all good.

Thanks for the tip now i can continue using this..
 
I'm currently looking for a new way to post the weather. if uweather puts out a special alert you get a "willoverspred" error.

acee88 said:
damn i totally forgot about that.. i had it set to 0 haha no wonder why it hogged my resource.. now i set it to 10 and its all good.

Thanks for the tip now i can continue using this..
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for something like the weather you can set it even higher. it doesn't change too often. unless you are going through a hurricane or something.
 
I totally want to use/customize/love Geektool, but I just don't look at my desktop all that often, except for waking or sleeping.

Let's see those technical Geektool scripts! Give us reason to watch our desktops again!
 
hey I'm new to GeekTool and all this mess, but i LOVE the idea, and was wondering how difficult would it be to get a small script with a monthly calendar, weather, time and date? I might consider installing this stuff if i can get it do display what i want...
How much CPU does it use when running?
 
VSMacOne said:
hey I'm new to GeekTool and all this mess, but i LOVE the idea, and was wondering how difficult would it be to get a small script with a monthly calendar, weather, time and date? I might consider installing this stuff if i can get it do display what i want...
How much CPU does it use when running?
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CPU usage is little, unless you set something to 0

The desktop calendar via geektool:
Code: 
 cal | sed "s/^/ /;s/$/ /;s/ $(date +%e) / $(date +%e | sed 's/./#/g') /"

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VSMacOne said:
hey I'm new to GeekTool and all this mess, but i LOVE the idea, and was wondering how difficult would it be to get a small script with a monthly calendar, weather, time and date? I might consider installing this stuff if i can get it do display what i want...
How much CPU does it use when running?
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It's actually very easy to do everything that you want (everything with the exception of the calendar has already been laid out in this thread). As for the CPU question, it really is minimal and can be set so that it will run the scripts as often as you'd like. As a test you can always type a command into Terminal and see how fast and how few resources these things actually take up.

As for the calendar command, I know it's in one (or more) of the following links which combined have all of the information that I've ever needed for tinkering with GeekTool. Have fun!


http://forums.mactalk.com.au/20/58453-learning-love-geektool-primer-part-2-a.html

http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/10/ultimate-geektool-setup-pimp-your-desktop-part-2/

http://lifehacker.com/software/plain-text/geek-to-live--monitor-your-mac-and-more-with-geektool-244026.php#c1097729


And finally, a shameless plug for my blog that shows my friend's geektool set-up with commands (and with calendar I might add)
http://appalooza.wmblogs.net/2008/12/24/geektool-christmas-present/
 
Island Roots said:
That's odd, it must be how Weather Underground is reporting for that zip code. I entered it into my script and it says the same thing (Temp + Probability of...). Don't know where to go from there.
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any idea how to get rid of the "probability of..."
 
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