Your desktop inspired me to get tinkering with GeekTool. First off, I created a repo on GitHub https://github.com/dave-tuc... with an adapted weather icon/forecast/summary that runs from the Forecast.io (Dark Sky) API. I'll be pushing more geeklets here when get some more tinker time ;)
Secondly I tried out your Sidecar skin for Simplify but it's doesn't work with the OSX Yosemite beta... https://www.dropbox.com/s/f... It's only showing the top half :S
Finally, which fonts are you using for date/time/weather?
How do you get the cpu and memmeters outline like that? When I run the same scripts, the percentages show up close to the name of the process instead of under each other. I've tried the alignment options but without result.
I spent all last night and today coming up with virtually that same script for the Dark Sky implementation. Well worth the exercise in grep | sed, etc then finding the Ruby library. :) I don't even know where to begin with the speed test numbers. Is there a speedtest.net api you can get with an account?
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Hey Brett,
Your desktop inspired me to get tinkering with GeekTool. First off, I created a repo on GitHub https://github.com/dave-tuc... with an adapted weather icon/forecast/summary that runs from the Forecast.io (Dark Sky) API. I'll be pushing more geeklets here when get some more tinker time ;)
Secondly I tried out your Sidecar skin for Simplify but it's doesn't work with the OSX Yosemite beta...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f...
It's only showing the top half :S
Finally, which fonts are you using for date/time/weather?
-- Dave
Yeah, I've been using Dark Sky locally, too. I'll need to update that script entirely as the API it uses is soon to be deprecated/sunset.
I haven't put Sidecar on my Yosemite machine yet, but I'll test it out.
The font in most of the non-fixed-width geeklets is Raleway: http://www.fontsquirrel.com...
I take it back, I forgot I switched all my fonts to Avenir.
Both are better than Source Code Sans :)
How do you get the cpu and memmeters outline like that? When I run the same scripts, the percentages show up close to the name of the process instead of under each other. I've tried the alignment options but without result.
Are you using a fixed width font? That should sort out most issues.
Thanks Eelke, that solved a lot indeed!
Hey Bret where could I get the desktop image you are using?
thanks
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I have an app called uDesktop Next that I've been using for backgrounds.
http://aperio-lux.com/Appli...
so your desktop image is always changing? how do you make sure that the text is legible? and it is not white on white or are you ok with that?
No, I hand pick the desktops, it's just my source.
Ha I see thanks so much for the info
Have you previously posted the geeklet for the bandwidth test?
I spent all last night and today coming up with virtually that same script for the Dark Sky implementation. Well worth the exercise in grep | sed, etc then finding the Ruby library. :) I don't even know where to begin with the speed test numbers. Is there a speedtest.net api you can get with an account?
What is the script you used for Dark Sky conditions? I love that
It's a simple one: https://gist.github.com/tts...
Excellent! Thanks ;)