Geek tools 5 how to#

Geek tools 5 how to#

I tried this app a few years back and found it difficult to figure out how to use. Monaco looks *terrible* antialiased at those sizes, and having it antialiased makes things displayed look much, much less geeky :) Indeed, I'd love to see it get the ability to optionally disable antialiasing for *any* font (like in Terminal). They are now antialiased, where they never were before. One gripe: 3.1.1 came out, and it destroyed the look of Monaco at 9pt and 10pt. It would probably work smoother if there was something in the preferences that allowed the user to set a custom $PATH. There should be a box or something in the app's preferences that allow you to change the load order of geeklets, and shows you a list of them by name (not UIDs). So to shuffle their order in the plist, you have to write down which UID goes with which geeklet. If you try to fix this, you can, but you run into the fact that GeekTool keeps track of its geeklets by means of hexadecimal UIDs instead of the names that you already gave your geeklets when you created them.

This can ruin a carefully-crafted desktop. For instance, it often reshuffles the order of which geeklets get loaded first. It could use improvement in certain areas. But if you are a Geek, it couldn't really much get easier to use.

And most other things don't make a lot of sense then. If you don't know what a shell script is, or how to write one, or are totally unfamiliar with things that live in /usr/bin, you won't be able to do much besides put images on your desktop.

It's called GeekTool for a reason you have to already have some geekery ability to make it do much of interest.