Geektool: Your Geektool scripts

[RogersDA]

Originally Posted by DEE9299

could you post your script for the calender and date and time also do you know how i can get my hotmail email to show up on the screen like you did?

Calendar at the bottom is the great program DateLine.

Date (w/ thanks to Chartreux for injecting this easier code back to my brain again):

date +"%d %B %Y"

Time:

date +"%l:%M %p"

Hotmail: No Clue - Never used it.

[tozol]

OK guys just a few tidy up questions for me, as I think Ill leave mine for now as its my xmas theme, and first go.

But take a look at my screen shot, and you see such things as, my cpu, the battery, and trash, scripts,?
Well simple question, they don't seem to refresh on there own, what I mean is, if left on DT as they should, they just stay the numbers they were previous.

Now if i reopen geektool, and click on the box with the details in, they intsantly refresh, so its like I have to manually refresh them.
Any reason why, and how can I fix it.??

1 final point, the cpu one, always shows 100%, doesn't seem right.

thanks for any help...
(click on screeny for full size)

[libwolf]

Originally Posted by tozol

OK guys just a few tidy up questions for me, as I think Ill leave mine for now as its my xmas theme, and first go.

But take a look at my screen shot, and you see such things as, my cpu, the battery, and trash, scripts,?
Well simple question, they don't seem to refresh on there own, what I mean is, if left on DT as they should, they just stay the numbers they were previous.

Now if i reopen geektool, and click on the box with the details in, they intsantly refresh, so its like I have to manually refresh them.
Any reason why, and how can I fix it.??

You did remember to put a time in for 'Refresh Every' in the properties window, right?

[partyBoy]

Originally Posted by Topher15

Made a bigger version for my MacBook:

where did u get that rainbow space wallpaper ?

[fr3ak]

Hi everyone, cool scripts in this threat. It has helped me allot when playing with geektool.

I've searched Google for at Picasa web album script to display the pictures of my web albums. Do anyone know if this exist?

I know that Picasa uses RSS so maybe one could extract the pictures through that? I want to take between 5 and 10 images randomly from one of my albums and display it on the desktop. Can anyone help with this?

EDIT: BTW, I'm also looking for a script to pool my appointments from Google calendar if anyone can help with this or point me in the right direction?

[tozol]

Originally Posted by libwolf

You did remember to put a time in for 'Refresh Every' in the properties window, right?

I left all refresh values at default (0 I think)

[creator2456]

Originally Posted by tozol

I left all refresh values at default (0 I think)

That could be why they don't refresh, and definitely why the CPU is at 100%.

Put the time to refresh every 60 seconds, the date every 86400 seconds (24 hours), etc. etc.

[barvid]

Originally Posted by barvid

I´m really new to this..

Is there anyone that like to help me to extract METAR´s and TAF´s from these to sites. I´ve tried to figure out how to do it my self but.. well, I don´t have a clue!

METAR and TAF and of course select just the ones o need..

Thanks alot guys!

/Barvid

Is there anyone that can help me with this..? Pleeeease..

[RogersDA]

Originally Posted by barvid

Is there anyone that can help me with this..? Pleeeease..

There are several posts in this thread regarding METAR and TAF. Maybe not to your specific sites, but they should help.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1250

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1251

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1253

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1254

[barvid]

Originally Posted by RogersDA

There are several posts in this thread regarding METAR and TAF. Maybe not to your specific sites, but they should help.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1250

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1251

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1253

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...postcount=1254

Thanks, Yeah. I´ve seen those posts. But the thing is that I can´t get the METARs and TAFs I need with the help of those scripts. So that´s why I posted a question of my own.
But thanks anyway for ya help!

[Scrbzzz]

I can't seem to get this to work for me, does anyone have any pointers.
http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_fi...n-desktop.html

I downloaded and installed iCalBuddy and my initial try was with the code given at the bottom but nothing came up. It said in terminal that thats where it was installed but when I go to look for the files I cant seem to find usr/local/bin

[Wowzera]

Originally Posted by RogersDA

Based on the image you posted that person probably used two shell windows: one for the echo and one for the date. Fonts are the same, but the sizes are different. The echo shell was also moved to its current location, too, I'm sure.
Here is my quick take:

Thanks, I already got it to work. My confusion was about if he was using just one shell window or two. If any of us is interested, the font used is Neutra Text Book SC
Thanks to all who helped.

[fr3ak]

Originally Posted by Chartreux

I wrote a tiny Ruby script to display RSS-feeds.

It takes a RSS-link as the only parameter and displays the channel name + the time and title of each item.

Put something like this in the Command field of GeekTool (I saved it as "rss.rb" in my personal bin directory):

~/bin/rss.rb http://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml

Script:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rss'
require 'open-uri'

rss = RSS::Parser.parse open(ARGV.shift).read, false

puts rss.channel.title

rss.items.each_with_index do |item,i|
  puts "" if i.zero? or item.date.day != rss.items[i-1].date.day

  puts "#{item.date.strftime '%H:%M'}  #{item.title}"
end

Remember to turn on the executable bit: chmod +x rss.rb
No need to install Ruby by the way, it's already included in OS X, so it should work out of the box.

Thanks for the script - works great.

How do i set a limit to the amount of content that is displayed?

[elykl33t]

I finally managed to make my weather script work, but whenever I try to change the unit from celsius to fahrenheit it stops showing anything at all.

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&u=f" | 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>//' | tail -n1

whenever I try and use printer.wunderground.com like a lot of other people are, I get servers for everything around me (DC, Fairfax, Alexandria, and Ft. Belvoir). any ideas??

[RogersDA]

Originally Posted by elykl33t

I finally managed to make my weather script work, but whenever I try to change the unit from celsius to fahrenheit it stops showing anything at all

There are two "f" variables that need to be changed to "c" in that script (or vice versa). You only did one.

Celcius

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&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>//' | tail -n1

Fahrenheit

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' | tail -n1

[RogersDA]

Originally Posted by DEE9299

...do you know how i can get my hotmail email to show up on the screen like you did?

I found this post that discusses getting hotmail into Mac Mail. Maybe if that still works then you can use the applescript to output the correct fields.

[elykl33t]

thanks a bunch!!!!!!!

[Forsaken]

Originally Posted by RogersDA

There are two "f" variables that need to be changed to "c" in that script (or vice versa). You only did one.

Celcius

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&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>//' | tail -n1

Fahrenheit

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' | tail -n1

Was wondering the same thing. Thanks for the code.

[DEE9299]

Originally Posted by RogersDA

I found this post that discusses getting hotmail into Mac Mail. Maybe if that still works then you can use the applescript to output the correct fields.

I think that was to get it to show up in your mail icon in the dock but I already have my hotmail to show up thru the mail icon in the dock now I need help to get it from there into geektool to the main screen

[RogersDA]

Originally Posted by DEE9299

I think that was to get it to show up in your mail icon in the dock but I already have my hotmail to show up thru the mail icon in the dock now I need help to get it from there into geektool to the main screen

The script I use for showing mail on the desktop involves two items:
an applescript to get the information
a shell script to run the applescript

The following applescript is placed in the directory of choice. Run applescript, insert the following code, compile/save as a file; e.g., mail.scpt
I use /var/tmp to save all my geektool stuff.

The code below uses several spaces that I use to help things line up when using a fixed-width font.

set newline to ASCII character 10

set finalText to ""

tell application "Mail"
	set theMessages to (messages of inbox whose read status is false)
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theMessages
		set thisMessage to item i of theMessages
		set dateMsg to (date received of thisMessage as string)
		set fromMsg to (sender of thisMessage as string)
		set subjMsg to (subject of thisMessage as string)
		set finalText to finalText & " From: " & word 1 of fromMsg & " " & word 2 of fromMsg & newline & " Date: " & word 3 of dateMsg & " " & word 2 of dateMsg & " " & word 4 of dateMsg & newline & " Subj: " & subjMsg & newline & newline
	end repeat
end tell
finalText

Now, in geektools, I use the following shell to run the script:

echo Unread EMail
osascript /var/tmp/mail.scpt

[DEE9299]

Originally Posted by RogersDA

The script I use for showing mail on the desktop involves two items:
an applescript to get the information
a shell script to run the applescript

The following applescript is placed in the directory of choice. Run applescript, insert the following code, compile/save as a file; e.g., mail.scpt
I use /var/tmp to save all my geektool stuff.

The code below uses several spaces that I use to help things line up when using a fixed-width font.

set newline to ASCII character 10

set finalText to ""

tell application "Mail"
	set theMessages to (messages of inbox whose read status is false)
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theMessages
		set thisMessage to item i of theMessages
		set dateMsg to (date received of thisMessage as string)
		set fromMsg to (sender of thisMessage as string)
		set subjMsg to (subject of thisMessage as string)
		set finalText to finalText & " From: " & word 1 of fromMsg & " " & word 2 of fromMsg & newline & " Date: " & word 3 of dateMsg & " " & word 2 of dateMsg & " " & word 4 of dateMsg & newline & " Subj: " & subjMsg & newline & newline
	end repeat
end tell
finalText

Now, in geektools, I use the following shell to run the script:

echo Unread EMail
osascript /var/tmp/mail.scpt

Oh boy now I am completely confused ......I am lost where is applescript located

[Saul89]

Originally Posted by tozol

OK guys just a few tidy up questions for me, as I think Ill leave mine for now as its my xmas theme, and first go.

But take a look at my screen shot, and you see such things as, my cpu, the battery, and trash, scripts,?
Well simple question, they don't seem to refresh on there own, what I mean is, if left on DT as they should, they just stay the numbers they were previous.

Now if i reopen geektool, and click on the box with the details in, they intsantly refresh, so its like I have to manually refresh them.
Any reason why, and how can I fix it.??

1 final point, the cpu one, always shows 100%, doesn't seem right.

thanks for any help...
(click on screeny for full size)

What is the script for battery percentage? I've scoured the internet looking for one and all I could find was someone's screenshots on flickr and they haven't answered my question on how to do it. I asked earlier in this topic if anyone had a way and didn't get an answer...

Thank you.

[DEE9299]

Originally Posted by RogersDA

The script I use for showing mail on the desktop involves two items:
an applescript to get the information
a shell script to run the applescript

The following applescript is placed in the directory of choice. Run applescript, insert the following code, compile/save as a file; e.g., mail.scpt
I use /var/tmp to save all my geektool stuff.

The code below uses several spaces that I use to help things line up when using a fixed-width font.

set newline to ASCII character 10

set finalText to ""

tell application "Mail"
	set theMessages to (messages of inbox whose read status is false)
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theMessages
		set thisMessage to item i of theMessages
		set dateMsg to (date received of thisMessage as string)
		set fromMsg to (sender of thisMessage as string)
		set subjMsg to (subject of thisMessage as string)
		set finalText to finalText & " From: " & word 1 of fromMsg & " " & word 2 of fromMsg & newline & " Date: " & word 3 of dateMsg & " " & word 2 of dateMsg & " " & word 4 of dateMsg & newline & " Subj: " & subjMsg & newline & newline
	end repeat
end tell
finalText

Now, in geektools, I use the following shell to run the script:

echo Unread EMail
osascript /var/tmp/mail.scpt

Thanks it works I figured where and how to use apple script ......now i cant stop playing with geektools

[SchneiderMan]

Anyway to have Geektool start automatically on startup? i find my self having to start it up again all the time.

[partyBoy]

Originally Posted by SchneiderMan

Anyway to have Geektool start automatically on startup? i find my self having to start it up again all the time.

put it in the log in items in your user acct settings in your system preferences