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Desktop May Desktops 2010

2high2aim said:
you have to tell us how did you put your desktop together like that; such as the weather on the bottom left, the date on top right, the music info on top left, and the changing of the dock icons
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This is actually pretty straight forward.

You need to download 3 programs: GeekTool 3, LiteIcon & BowTie.

You can get Icons & BowTie Themes i.e. at www.deviantart.com
You can get fonts for the GeekTool scripts i.e. at www.dafont.com



(Click on the picture for original size)

Code 1: This is for german Weekdays. I suppose you could just replace them with any other language.

Code: 
date "+%A" | sed -e 's/Monday/Montag/g' -e 's/Tuesday/Dienstag/g' -e 's/Wednesday/Mittwoch/g' -e 's/Thursday/Donnerstag/g' -e 's/Friday/Freitag/g' -e 's/Saturday/Samstag/g' -e 's/Sunday/Sonntag/g'

Code 2: You'll need find your own WOEID (search for your location & look at the end of the RSS Feed address on that page) on the yahoo weather page to get the temperature of your own location. Copy it and replace my WOEID (GMXX0064&u=c) for fahrenheit replace the c in the end with an f.

Code: 
curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=GMXX0064&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/[A-Z a-z]*, //' -e 's/\(.*\) F/\1 °F/' -e 's/\(.*\) C/\1 °C/' | sed 's/ //' | tail -n1

Code 3: see above

Code: 
curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=GMXX0064&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' -e 's/, [0-9]* [A-Z]//' | tail -n1

Code 4

Part 1 Shell Script

Code: 
curl --silent "http://de.weather.yahoo.com/deutschland/schleswig-holstein/kiel-665684/" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'\(.*\)\')\;\ _background.*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /var/tmp/weather_image.png\

Part 2 Image Script

Code: 
file://localhost/var/tmp/weather_image.png
 
Arrr

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Beam thanks for your time at putting your knowledge in writing (and picture) to help me and other individuals out there...thx

Does changing the dock icons decrease the overall performance of the machine?
 
Andrew K. said:
forgot where I got it :(
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not the one to ask for links but could you at least upload your original to flixter or something and give us the link.. it looks really good... i would appreciate it a lot..

i looked for it on tineye but they were all too small.. hopefully you have the 27" iMac version 2560x1440 :-D
 
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