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1. #Geektool vs nerdtool install#
2. #Geektool vs nerdtool full#
3. #Geektool vs nerdtool code#
4. #Geektool vs nerdtool mac#

#Geektool vs nerdtool code#

Use the coupon code MARKDOWNFORTHEHOLIDAYS13. Let me know what you come up with!Īlso, don’t forget to grab Marked 2 for 20% off before the 26th. I use the same style for CPU usage meters. GeekTool will execute the script and display the output the way you want it. The basic concept of this script can be applied to anything that offers a status report within a known range. GeekTool is a macOS application that lets you customize your desktop with. The ARC font is a brilliant and flexible tool for GeekTool (and NerdTool) users. When you’re testing, be sure to “Back up now” from the Time Machine menu bar item so you have something to work with. If there’s no Time Machine backup running, it disappears. The script uses tmutil status ( man page) and parses out the raw percentage complete, converting it to an integer between 1 and 50, which it then maps to the alphabetical character that the font uses. Use the X/Y position numbers to position it exactly over the main Geeklet and then right click and “send to back”. Set the color to a darker, more transparent version of the main Geeklet’s foreground color. Turn “Override text” on and type “Y” in the field. If you want a full-circle background to make it more of a progress meter, create a second shell Geeklet and set it to the ARC font at the same size as the first one. match ( /Running = 1 / ) raw_percent = plist. Update: I’ve fixed the code to recognize the 100% complete state. Pick a foreground color/opacity by clicking the green color well in the font palette.Change the size of the circle by adjusting the font size in the font panel.

#Geektool vs nerdtool install#

#Geektool vs nerdtool full#

By the time you get to “Z,” it’s a full circle. The ARC font is basically a partial circle that gets more complete as you move through the alphabet, lowercase first, then uppercase. You can do the same using the script below along with the ARC font (it’s hard to find these days for some reason, so I’m hosting a copy here). I built a little Geeklet that creates a circular progress indicator on my Desktop. I wanted a better indicator of whether Time Machine was running and how much it had left to back up. Nobody wants to see the harsh shadowing that GeekTool uses.Here’s a quick hack for GeekTool users who use Time Machine and don’t have enough stuff on their Desktop. The NerdTool screenshot is on the top and the GeekTool is on the bottom.

Unfortunately, GeekTool’s shadowing looks like shit with smaller fonts: Just change that false to a true and reimport the file to get shadowing. GeekTool doesn’t have a checkbox to shadow the text, although I’ve found that you can edit an exported Geeklet file (it’s just a plist) and turn on shadowing. The Finder uses shadowed text for files on the Desktop and for good reason-it definitely makes the text easier to read. For reference, both Tools were running my old Date and Time scripts and this set of Spotify scripts I wrote a couple of months ago.Īnother point in NerdTool’s favor is its support for shadowed text. I suppose I shouldn’t be concerned about a hundred megabytes or so, but I’ve had trouble with GeekTool eating up memory in the past and just don’t want to worry about that again. Based on a short test, I’ll keep using NerdTool, mainly because of this: Since GeekTool is free, and Brett seems to have gone back to it, I figured I’d run the two programs head-to-head to see how they compare. I had to abandon it for a while on my MacBook Air when I upgraded to OS X 10.7, but I’m running it again now that Mutable Code has made it Lion-compatible. I’ve been using NerdTool since I saw this Brett Terpstra post several months ago.

#Geektool vs nerdtool mac#

GeekTool went up on the Mac App Store on August 21, which explains why my various GeekTool posts have seen a jump in traffic. Next post Previous post NerdTool over GeekTool