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strange temperature in geektool...

just started playing with geek tool yesterday worked great initially now check out my temp...(attached)

here is the script im using

Code: 
lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=47401|awk '/Temp/{printf $2, ": "; for (i=3; i<=3; i++) printf $i " " }'
 

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Ok. Here is what I like after some tweeks.
I finally got the iTunes script to display the art and current info. Weird thing is I have to open script editor and kick off the artwork script to get the album art to show. I shut script editor down and geektool takes over. It runs smooth after that.
Using Modern No. 20 font for date and weather and using Helvetica Neu for the album info.
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scotty96LSC said:
Ok. Here is what I like after some tweeks.
I finally got the iTunes script to display the art and current info. Weird thing is I have to open script editor and kick off the artwork script to get the album art to show. I shut script editor down and geektool takes over. It runs smooth after that.
Using Modern No. 20 font for date and weather and using Helvetica Neu for the album info.
Geekupdate.png
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Your geek tool stuff looks like a nice Valentine's day card, or a wedding invite.
 
Nothing too fancy, i like it a lot. Took me about an hour to get it "just right". You can see a picture of the desktop on the Feb. Desktop thread.
 

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Does anyone have the weather details just dissapearing randomly?

also notice geektooll sometime takes up a lot of cpu resources
 
I know this isn't really a script, but since there are a few members who have the Mirage dock with the Kobhens icons I thought I'd post this.

I've been using PS to add the bar along the bottom to simulate the dock background going widescreen. However, it occurred to me it can be done with Geektool even easier.

No more modifying every wallpaper to make it fit your dock! And you can very easily adjust the opacity depending on the brightness of the wallpaper in question.

I give you this screenshot to illustrate the simplicity with which you can accomplish this: (depending on your screen size, play around with the measurements in the lower right corner). Leave the "Command", "Test" and "Icon" tabs at the default settings..
 
Melrose said:
I know this isn't really a script, but since there are a few members who have the Mirage dock with the Kobhens icons I thought I'd post this.

I've been using PS to add the bar along the bottom to simulate the dock background going widescreen. However, it occurred to me it can be done with Geektool even easier. "Geektool bar" ill. No. 1

No more modifying every wallpaper to make it fit your dock! And you can very easily adjust the opacity depending on the brightness of the wallpaper in question.

I give you this screenshot to illustrate the simplicity with which you can accomplish this: (depending on your screen size, play around with the measurements in the lower right corner). Leave the "Command", "Test" and "Icon" tabs at the default settings..
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yeah this is how i made mine. just an empty shell command with a grey colour.
 
Melrose said:
I know this isn't really a script, but since there are a few members who have the Mirage dock with the Kobhens icons I thought I'd post this.

I've been using PS to add the bar along the bottom to simulate the dock background going widescreen. However, it occurred to me it can be done with Geektool even easier. "Geektool bar" ill. No. 1

No more modifying every wallpaper to make it fit your dock! And you can very easily adjust the opacity depending on the brightness of the wallpaper in question.

I give you this screenshot to illustrate the simplicity with which you can accomplish this: (depending on your screen size, play around with the measurements in the lower right corner). Leave the "Command", "Test" and "Icon" tabs at the default settings..
Click to expand...

Thank you so much for that! That really helped me. I used to take almost 10 minutes fiddling around in PS until I get it right. This is legen--wait for it--and I hope you're not lactose intolerant--cuz the second half of that word is--DARY!. (Sorry, just had to throw in that HIMYM reference. Speaking of which, there is a new episode today :))
EDIT: Damn! Nevermind. The new episode is not today :( Now I have nothing to do...
 
For the scripts that require an internet connection like weather, what displays when no connection is present?
 
Watabou said:
Thank you so much for that! That really helped me. I used to take almost 10 minutes fiddling around in PS until I get it right. This is legen--wait for it--and I hope you're not lactose intolerant--cuz the second half of that word is--DARY!. (Sorry, just had to throw in that HIMYM reference. Speaking of which, there is a new episode today :))
EDIT: Damn! Nevermind. The new episode is not today :( Now I have nothing to do...
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Glad it's useful :) I modded mine a bit more, extending the black bar to the bottom (off the screen) and added a second one to get the white line at the top of the black bar thingie (which is illustrated w my last post (p15) in the Feb Desktops thread).. I like the new look even better!

Geektool-five! :D
 
mine is pretty simple ;)

anyone ever though of making a wallpaper based off geektool?
like its a train station with a big working clock or like a shelf full of bomb parts and on the display is a geektool clock? that would be really cool
 

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Hi there,
With the weather condition code
Code: 
lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=bristol|awk '/Cond/ && !/Fore/ {for (i=2; i<=10; i++) printf $i " " }'
I can get it working in Terminal but GeekTool just doesn't display anything.
Anyone get any idea why this might be?
Thanks for the great inspiration and knowhow on this thread =)
 
I also have a couple things that quit showing up myself. I have no idea why... (one is a date and the other 2 are weather related and were working fine before)
 
a helpful time zone shell script

here's a script for a world clock which i got here. i couldn't get the script to work using the setup as depicted on the webpage link, but after switching to gmt format it seems to work just fine.

(i added in the "-" bit which you can remove or replace with another character.)

TZ=Alaska/GMT9 date +"Anchorage: %I:%M %p - %D"
TZ=NewYork/GMT5 date +"New York: %I:%M %p - %D"
TZ=England/GMT date +"London: %I:%M %p - %D"
TZ=Australia/GMT-10 date +"Sydney: %I:%M %p - %D"


(this is a VERY cool thread! :D)
 
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