GeekTool 3 Tutorial - Customize Your Mac

Hey guys, first of all, I need to clarify that this is my friend Alex's first upload. He is new to making this kind of videos, so it might not be as good. Anyway, he is going to be uploading videos every week.

GeekTool Commands


AM/PM:
date +"%p"

Time:
date +"%I:%M"

Day of the Week:
date +%A

Date:
date +%d

Month:
date +%B

Battery Percentage:
ioreg -l | grep -i capacity | tr '\n' ' | ' | awk '{printf("%.2f%%", $10/$5 * 100)}'

RAM in Use (MB):
top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "RAM in use: " $8 " "}'

Disk Usage Percentage:
df -hl | grep 'disk0s2' | awk '{print "Used: " $5}'

Disk Space Left (GB):
df -hl | grep 'disk0s2' | awk '{print "Space left: "$4}'

Disk Capacity (GB):
df -hl | grep 'disk0s2' | awk '{print "Capacity: " $2}'

Message:
echo "(insert text here and remove brackets)"

Quick Google Searches will help you find the command that you are looking for.

Good Luck!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• GeekTool3
• Mac
• TechTips
• Desktop
• Time
• System
• Monitoring
• Battery
• MAC
• OSX
• Customize

[TheGermantechhelp]

where are the scripts.... the description is empty

[MacHelpTosh]

@TheGermantechhelp hey sorry about that, this is my friend's video, and he didn't put it there. I have included useful links to the scripts now.

sorry about that. thanks for watching.

[1023cosmo]

@oneilltheitguy thats wat i want to know!!!!!

[Uprisingames]

wat about weather command ??????

[Exotios]

@Exotios wait nvm

:D

[Exotios]

How do you get the battery icon?

[1NWB]

RATATAT

[oneilltheitguy]

how did he get the meter on his computer does the meter and the percentage correspond?

[brighton6336]

turn the fucking music off

[mrdamien0808]

What type do u use for september 17 bla bla bla? That one is nice!

[nick4boston]

whats the name of the song?

[xXxRarxXx]

It's working perfectly, but when I have things open like my browser, or msn, the shells are overlapping. Is there any way I can collapse them to the desktop so that I only see them when my programs are closed or minimized?