So I made a PNG file of the correct color and saved it as “albumArt.png” on my Desktop. 1 I don’t have a program that can save a file as a PICT.īut AppleScript-specifically the Image Events application accessed via AppleScript- can convert to PICT. Making a dark blue image file that matched the current color of my Desktop was no problem, but converting it to PICT format was. (This is discussed in detail in the post with the album art scripts.) I had a ready-made PICT file to serve that purpose, but it didn’t work anymore because I’d changed my Desktop color to a darker blue. When iTunes isn’t playing, the space normally taken by the album cover art is supposed to be filled with a square that matches the color of my Desktop background. So getting NerdTool up and running was pretty painless.
The lower right corner shows the current track playing in iTunes and its album cover art.Īll of these are scripts I used to use with GeekTool, and they were all easy to find, either on my hard disk or in an old post here. Under the SuperDuper! summary is the weather, generated by my weathertext script. I have SuperDuper! do a bootable backup every night, and the purpose of this script is to summarize the rather long log file to let me know whether the backup was a success. The upper left corner shows the output of my SuperDuper! status monitor, a Perl script called dupersummary. The %l specification for the time puts a space character before single-digit hours (check the strftime man page), something I normally don’t like, but in this case it’s at the beginning of a right-justified string, so the extra space doesn’t get in the way. The time and date are in the lower left corner, using these one-liner shell scripts: date "+%l:%M %p"įor the date. Here’s the result on the 24″ iMac in my office: So I downloaded it, started it up, and then began rummaging around for the scripts I used to use with GeekTool. I figured if a smart guy like Brett chose NerdTool, it’s worth a look. He uses NerdTool, a fork of GeekTool that seems works in basically the same way. Oddly enough, it seems that the best way to keep files from piling up on my Desktop is to have something else there I want to see that gives me the incentive to clean out the files more often.Ī couple of weeks ago, Brett Terpstra showed his Desktop, a very pretty thing. In the intervening year, I’ve learned that a pristine Desktop is easier to want than it is to keep. I used to be GeekTool user but abandoned it about a year ago when I decided I wanted a pristine Desktop. Next post Previous post NerdTool, PICTs, and Buddhism
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