GeekTool Project

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WebSite: http://www.jjos.org/
作者: 姜江 linuxemacs@gmail.com
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What is GeekTool

I fork the GeekTool project from balthamos’s project. The original project used to be called “GeekTool 3″, but the developer decided to pick up this project again! So prevent confusion, balthamos renamed it to “NerdTool”.

GeekTool 3 is a system preference module for Mac OS X. It allows you to put widget(geeklets) on your desktop. At this time, 5 kind of Geeklets are supported: File, Shell, Image, Web, Quartz.

File: Let you display the content, and evolution of a file on your desktop, very convenient for log files for example, you quickly see what is happening on your Mac OS X

Shell: Displays on your desktop the result of any shell script

Image: Let you show images coming from your local machine or internet

Web: Displays on your desktop the specified web site

Quartz: Let you show Quartz on your desktop

How can i get the source code

You can get my fork branch from GitHub as following:

git clone git@github.com:jellycn/geektool-3.git

How can build the GeekTool

There are few steps to build GeekTool from source code.

1. Checkout or download GeekTool source code

2. Open the project file with xcode

3. Click Build button to generate target application(Debug or Release)

How can i use GeekTool

Please reference my other article about how to use GeekTool (Chinese version only)

How can i get more about GeekTool

There are some website, wiki and documents about GeekTool, see below:

The GeekTool 3 introduction of original developer

http://geektool3.tynsoe.org/projects/show/geektool3

The wiki page of balthamos

http://wiki.github.com/balthamos/geektool-3/

ChangeLog

[ 03/05/2010 ]

1. Fix crash bug when load website with flash plug-in

2. Fix widget could not be resize bug.

If you have any ideas or found any bugs, Please contact me, Thanks~!