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jwGary

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Oct 11, 2012
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So when running windows 7 through bootcamp, i got my desktop to look like this:
capturegpn.png
(with the arc in the corner).

I did that using Rainmeter. What i have now is:
screenshot20121216at630.png


which i made using Geektool and BowTie. Kind of like the arc look more. Anyone know any way of replicating that? couldn't find anything when i was looking it up myself
 
So when running windows 7 through bootcamp, i got my desktop to look like this:
Image (with the arc in the corner).

I did that using Rainmeter. What i have now is: Image

which i made using Geektool and BowTie. Kind of like the arc look more. Anyone know any way of replicating that? couldn't find anything when i was looking it up myself

Yup.. Have a look at the following link. I'm sure there are many others similar to this.. :D

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/geektool-151524
 
Yup.. Have a look at the following link. I'm sure there are many others similar to this.. :D

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/geektool-151524

Ya, I'm using geektool. its just that on windows i have that circle thing on the top right that tells the time, ram/cpu usage, and some other things. I was wondering if theres something like that (which was done with arcs on windows) on macs. heres the link to the rainmeter things i used - http://kaelri.deviantart.com/art/Arcs-112670528
and
http://burnwell88.deviantart.com/#/d4xz7ah
 
Ya, I'm using geektool. its just that on windows i have that circle thing on the top right that tells the time, ram/cpu usage, and some other things. I was wondering if theres something like that (which was done with arcs on windows) on macs. heres the link to the rainmeter things i used - http://kaelri.deviantart.com/art/Arcs-112670528
and
http://burnwell88.deviantart.com/#/d4xz7ah

Ok, using sed&awk see below. What you can do is grab an image as you've quoted in your url and set the opacity as low as you like..

CPU
top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $3, $4, "\n", $5, $6,"\n", $7, $8}'

Uptime:
uptime | awk '{print "UPTIME : " $3 " " $4 " " $5 " " }'; top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "RAM : " $8 " "}' ; top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print $6, $7=":", $8, $9="user ", $10, $11="sys ", $12, $13}'

Unfortunately Geek Tool there is not really templates as you get woth RainMeter.... it's down to what you want and how you want it IMHO.. I've posted up a sample desktop pic... it was quick and dirty.....



HTH

:D
 

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