#Geektool vs ubersicht vs how to
Mac OS X Hints shows how to do the song details here, and the album artwork here. The song details are relatively straightforward to get, but the album artwork is a bit more complicated. This basically involves using AppleScript to get the details from iTunes. I won't go into detail with this, because I don't have it set up on my system. This one would fit quite well with the system info above, but it is likely to change more so you might want to keep it separate and have it refresh more often.ĭisplay Album Artwork and Song Details of iTunes Currently Playing $2 gives the capacity, $3 gives the used, $4 gives the free, and $5 gives the percentage used. Just make sure all text is inside double-quotes, and all variables (e.g. The second part of the command is awk which rearranges the output. The Disk Identifier property is near the top of the info window. Just click on the hard drive in the list on the left and choose Get Info.
You can find out what yours is Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities).
" disk0s2" is the identifier for the hard drive. Just add this into GeekTool in the same way as usual. Create a new entry, and change the type from File to Shell. To display this information, just open up System Preferences and click on GeekTool ( download it first if you haven't already). This is useful if you have loads of the same model, or if you often remotely control other Macs. It is possible to use shell commands in GeekTool to display the computer name, operating system version, the amount of RAM and the processor details. I've recently started using GeekTool a lot, and since I posted tips for displaying iCal events and Tweets on the desktop, I've found a few more cool things you can do.