![]() ![]() You can modify this profile to have your organization name by opening the file in a text editing application (aka not TextEdit.app). You should have downloaded the referenced profile under the requirement section. With that out of the way, I will go ahead and say I cheated and created the Geektool-login-item.mobileconfig with my profile server since it was easier than creating from scratch. The main reason for splitting the profiles into two, was to use one profile for launching Geektool at login and the second profile deals with organization settings for Geektool: refresh rate, script, color of the text, etc. Note for this to work, I have found that having two profiles was the easiest solution but your milage may vary. Testing will be outside the scope of this post but a hint if you are running into errors: open Geektool manually and paste your script directly into the application. For that reason if you make to many changes to the script you will need to test for compatibility with GeekTool. The plist file needs to have & encoded as &. ![]() Now is a good time to mention that the script inside of the plist has been modified from the original geektool_script.sh script. Scroll down to line 116 and change the following line to something useful. Open the main plist .plist from the gist zip file. Lets start by changing the Help Desk Phone Number in my script. This will be the most time consuming process so start small. Note: If you wish to use the script as is, feel free to skip below to creating the profiles. This includes two command lines tools created by Tim Sutton, Geektool.app, the gist with all the necessary plist files, and a profile to launch Geektool at login. If you have not done so already you will want to download all five (5) of the requirements above. Unless you want to manually copy and paste on every computer…for every user profile…in your entire fleet. Great now what? Well that script does nothing for you. You want the refresh rate low so when the network drops or you get a new IP address you can easily see changes. It defaults to refreshing every 30 seconds, though you can modify this in the .plist file, which has negligible performance toll on Mac clients. In short, this is simply a bash script that Geektool is running in the background. Nobody wants to see the harsh shadowing that GeekTool uses.Requirements -You will want to download and save these somewhere. ![]() The NerdTool screenshot is on the top and the GeekTool is on the bottom. Unfortunately, GeekTool’s shadowing looks like shit with smaller fonts: Just change that false to a true and reimport the file to get shadowing. GeekTool doesn’t have a checkbox to shadow the text, although I’ve found that you can edit an exported Geeklet file (it’s just a plist) and turn on shadowing. The Finder uses shadowed text for files on the Desktop and for good reason-it definitely makes the text easier to read. ![]() For reference, both Tools were running my old Date and Time scripts and this set of Spotify scripts I wrote a couple of months ago.Īnother point in NerdTool’s favor is its support for shadowed text. I suppose I shouldn’t be concerned about a hundred megabytes or so, but I’ve had trouble with GeekTool eating up memory in the past and just don’t want to worry about that again. Based on a short test, I’ll keep using NerdTool, mainly because of this: Since GeekTool is free, and Brett seems to have gone back to it, I figured I’d run the two programs head-to-head to see how they compare. I had to abandon it for a while on my MacBook Air when I upgraded to OS X 10.7, but I’m running it again now that Mutable Code has made it Lion-compatible. I’ve been using NerdTool since I saw this Brett Terpstra post several months ago. GeekTool went up on the Mac App Store on August 21, which explains why my various GeekTool posts have seen a jump in traffic. Next post Previous post NerdTool over GeekTool ![]()
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