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.