My Wordpress powered website has been running for quite some time now, and today I finally replaced the default theme with something I like better, Suffusion, and customized it to my needs.
I had installed some syntax highlighting plugins before but disabled them because I couldn’t get it to work properly. Now with the pretty new layout all posts with snippets of unhighlighted source code were a real eye-sore, so that needed to be fixed as wel.
The past couple of days I’ve been playing around with GeekTool a nifty litlle application that can show text files, unix commands output (including scripts), or images (local and from the internet) on your desktop. There are many sites with examples out there which inspired me to create a GeekTool setup of my own.
I started playing around with several scripts and GeekTool because it looked cool at first and it was fun to do some shell scripting. As the amount of information displayed on my desktop grew I started wondering why I was creating a lot of small processes taking up a little CPU time. I hardly ever look at my desktop because of all the windows in front of it. But the stats now on my desktop are easily accesable with one key (F11), and some starts are already displayed in either the menu bar or my iStat Pro widget. Removing it there gives me more room in the menu bar (which is starting grow full of icons) and saves some resources used by the widget.
Now I shall explain the GeekTool entries I created more detailed.
The svn commandline tool is great, but when I don’t receive a e-mail notifying me of a new commit I hardly ever read the log messages. That’s why I added an alias to my profile called svnup which does an update and then prints the log from the revision before the update to now.
SVN_CURR_REV=`svn info|grep 'Last Changed Rev'|awk '{ print $4 }'`; \
svn up; \
svn log -r $SVN_CURR_REV:HEAD
Now I just have to remember tot type svnup instead of svn up.