Ok I just seen Nick's setup in the setup thread, and I'm wondering what add-on/application would allow me to get the time and date etc like the picture below in the bottom left hand corner of my desktop?
http://img.skitch.com/20090225-pbbse...qnkwgm777h.png
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Thread: Time & Date Desktop
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Time & Date Desktop
Last edited by James!; 27-02-2009 at 06:17 PM.
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Rainmeter .
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For Mac? Sure...
Originally Posted by qwerty1
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Anybody? Nick won;t answer the pm
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01-03-2009, 02:36 PM #5
It might be a dashboard widget that's been moved to the desktop.
Probably not, mind.
Did you ever find out what it was?
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Yeah using shell, but it isn't the same, here's what mine looks like now..
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01-03-2009, 05:02 PM #7
It's called GeekTools. It allows you to show the output of shell commands on your desktop. You just write a script to show time, something like
date +"%I
M%p"
and then it will show you the time on your desktop. Here's mine using it:
Showing the weather conditions is a little more sophisticated. For me, I wrote a PHP script to get the current weather conditions for my city, and then using curl from the shell I display it on my desktop. There's guides for weather on Google. Just search GeekTools weather script.Last edited by HotelUser; 01-03-2009 at 05:03 PM.
I'm not crazy, ask my toaster.
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Yeah but Nicks' one looks well different to the ones we have.
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01-03-2009, 05:58 PM #9
Originally Posted by James!
It's the same. He just has different fonts and sizes.I'm not crazy, ask my toaster.
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