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[SomeGuyDude]

I'm a big fan of Arch I've used Linux on and off for years now but Arch turned the tide it's why I'll be leaving the Apple ecosystem.

My only problem with Arch: it eats battery somehow. On my one laptop with Win7, battery lasted 4-5 hours. Arch got maybe 2 if I was lucky. Even with all the various tools to ratchet down cpu usage and power management it still ate through battery like mad.

 

[MyMac1976]

My only problem with Arch: it eats battery somehow. On my one laptop with Win7, battery lasted 4-5 hours. Arch got maybe 2 if I was lucky. Even with all the various tools to ratchet down cpu usage and power management it still ate through battery like mad.

I get about 6 setting up laptop-mode-tools and cpu-power

 

[Pendragon55]

Been lurching around this forum for ages and learnt a lot from all those who posted theirs up. This is mine currently to match the os7 minimalistic style.

 

[vandoorn]

Been lurching around this forum for ages and learnt a lot from all those who posted theirs up. This is mine currently to match the os7 minimalistic style.

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Wow looks great! I've been hesitating to change all my icons to text icons. But yours just looks stunning! Maybe i will do some tests in the weekend!

 

[allan.nyholm]

I assume you mean the bar which shows CPU, memory, net transfer, etc... That is actually an app called XRG, not geektool.

Since you liked the color scheme, I saved and attached my XRG theme file for you.

I'm thankful for you posting a link to this. I've never heard of this app.

I've not read the whole thread - I just took the last page here and went backwards through the thread.

Huge thanks to mikepj for making the app.

 

[MyMac1976]

Been lurching around this forum for ages and learnt a lot from all those who posted theirs up. This is mine currently to match the os7 minimalistic style.

[url=http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3766/11343957684_0d47bcc40f.jpg]Image[/url]

I tried this too but I couldn't get used to it but it looks awesome

 

[kay.87]

Hi,everybody help me get date from reminders? This script work normal on Mountain lion but on Maverick work only on applescript,nothing show on geektool Thanks.

anybody help me?

 

[moutian]

I wish I could make use of the trash bin in the wallpaper...

 

[toofewbullets]

finally geeked out my desktop!

 

[bluespider]

Image

Love the font, works great with your theme

 

[laurenashley]

Love Helvetica and stars so this is what I did!

 

[MyMac1976]

..

 

[andreaslarsen]

my simple desktop

Only used geektool for the time+date and to cancel out the menu bar shadow

 

[fhall1]

I wish I could make use of the trash bin in the wallpaper...

Is there a way to make a desktop icon transparent? Then just make a large recycle bin icon (approximate the size of the bin in the picture), move it over the bin in your desktop background and make it transparent.

 

[d-emolat]

Mine.

 

[TenneyThe2nd]

 

[gr4z]

Here's my latest

 

[BIGJM]

Geeklet with Yahoo icon working march 2014

Hi mates: After working two weeks finally I set up new scrips working with the nice yahoo icons.

1. Open geek tools

2. WEATHER IMAGE SCRIPT (image)
file://localhost/tmp/weatherYfr.png

Refresh every 30 seconds


3. go to http://www.fr.meteo.yahoo.com set your city (for me is Barcelona, Spain) and copy your url:

http://fr.meteo.yahoo.com/espagne/catalogne/barcelone-753692

4. IMAGE GRAB SCRIPT (Shell)

curl --silent "http://fr.meteo.yahoo.com/espagne/catalogne/barcelone-753692" | grep "url('http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/weather/images/icons/l/"| sed -e "s/\yom-mod yom-weather.*obs-current-weather//" | sed -e "s/\-100567.png.*//" | sed -e "s/[0-9][0-9][a-z]/&-100567.png/" | sed -e "s/\<div.*http/http/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weatherYfr.png\

Refresh every 30 seconds


Works fine for me in Mavericks.

LOL. BIG_JM

 

[miK.]

Here's my latest

Very interested in how you got that cloud icon to work?
Just saw Big JM's post but have not tried to do that yet...

 

[BIGJM]

Very interested in how you got that cloud icon to work?
Just saw Big JM's post but have not tried to do that yet...

I'm working with google chrome with "tools" and looking in "view source" and searching where de image icon is save.

(hard work)

BIG_JM

 

[miK.]

Hi mates: After working two weeks finally I set up new scrips working with the nice yahoo icons.

Thanks BIGJM -- I got it to work!

 

[FreemanW]

It was a nice run while it lasted . . . . .

Yahoo has changed their page construct and no longer has a dominant weather icon . . . . . . as you may see here:
http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/san-francisco-2487956/

. . . . or here . . . . . http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/los-angeles-2442047/

I do not have a clue where a suitable alternative might be found, much less where to begin coding a new script for grabbing the image.

 

[miK.]

It was a nice run while it lasted . . . . .
I do not have a clue where a suitable alternative might be found, much less where to begin coding a new script for grabbing the image.

Go up and read BIGJM's post #320. Yahoo's French weather site still uses the icons and they can be
"scraped" from there. Enter your zip/city info and copy the address from there.
I just did it today and it works great!

 

[FreemanW]

Go up and read BIGJM's post #320. Yahoo's French weather site still uses the icons and they can be
"scraped" from there. Enter your zip/city info and copy the address from there.
I just did it today and it works great!

Thank you! Your encouragement (. . . and BIGJM's excellent work) means I now have the weather icon on my desktop.

 

[BIGJM]

Hi mates: After working two weeks finally I set up new scrips working with the nice yahoo icons.

1. Open geek tools

2. WEATHER IMAGE SCRIPT (image)
file://localhost/tmp/weatherYfr.png

Refresh every 30 seconds


3. go to http://www.fr.meteo.yahoo.com set your city (for me is Barcelona, Spain) and copy your url:

http://fr.meteo.yahoo.com/espagne/catalogne/barcelone-753692

4. IMAGE GRAB SCRIPT (Shell)

curl --silent "http://fr.meteo.yahoo.com/espagne/catalogne/barcelone-753692" | grep "url('http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/weather/images/icons/l/"| sed -e "s/\yom-mod yom-weather.*obs-current-weather//" | sed -e "s/\-100567.png.*//" | sed -e "s/[0-9][0-9][a-z]/&-100567.png/" | sed -e "s/\<div.*http/http/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weatherYfr.png\

Refresh every 30 seconds


Works fine for me in Mavericks.

LOL. BIG_JM

At the end the mine.

BIGJM