The “GeekTool Helper” process that runs the actual Geeklets shouldn’t take anymore than ~20 MB of ram so long as you do this.Įdit 2: Posted a slightly updated version because I noticed the labels (“Next Review”, “Lessons”, and “Reviews”) sometimes disappear. To avoid this problem, restart your system once you’re done adding the Geeklets (and after each time you open the GeekTool app to make changes to your Geeklets). Oh, and because I know someone is going to ask here’s a link to the ダンボー wallpaper: …Įdit: Just found out that the 300 MB ram usage was caused by a memory leak in the GeekTool app. I’m sure there are more elegant ways to do this, but hey it works. I’m a neuroscience student and most of the programming I do involves one-off scripts that are never made public, so please forgive the hackish code. The icons I included are from the Iconic icon set and are licensed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence. Log out and log in or restart your mac (there is a known bug in GeekTool which causes the Geeklets to appear in Mission Control if you don’t do this after having used the GeekTool app to make modifications to your Geeklets). Check the “Automatically Launch at Login” checkbox and close the GeekTool app (but, select the option not to close the Geeklets after the app quits)Ĩ. To the right of the command field, click the “…” button (it’s black and hard to see) and paste your API key after “APIKey=”. In the Properties window, look for the field labelled “Command:”. Then, open the GeekTool application and select the “WaniKaniAPIRequest” Geeklet on your Desktop (it’s the big empty rectangle you should see the name at the top of the Properties window).Ħ. Go to, scroll down, and copy your API key. Double Click every one of the ten *.glet files in the WaniKaniGeekTool folder you just downloaded and click YES each time you are asked if you would like to run the Geeklet.ĥ. Unzip the archive, and move the folder called “WKGeekToolResources” to /Users/Shared/ (If you can’t figure out how to get there, open a Finder window and hold down shift + command + G then, paste “/Users/Shared/” and click Go)Ĥ. Download my GeekTool scripts (version 2.0): ģ. Install GeekTool: (If you aren’t running OS X 10.6 or later, you can download an older version here: )Ģ. Luckily for you, I’ve already taken care of most of the work so you should be able to reproduce the above setup fairly easily.ġ. It is extremely versatile, though perhaps not terribly intuitive if you are unfamiliar with shell scripting. For those not familiar with it, GeekTool is a mac application that allows users to display all kinds of information right on the Desktop.
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