Waiting Casually

So after reading all about what GeekTool can do over on Lifehacker, I thought I’d give it a try and make myself a pretty new desktop that puts a lot more information I use all the time right in front of me and out of my web browser. Firefox still crashes occasionally and it’s really a pain when it does, because I end up losing my music player (Pandora), weather info, and Twitter updates on top of whatever else I was doing.

An hour or so later, I now have this:

Slick, eh? I like how the updates blend right into the image. The stuff on the right almost looks like it was written right on the wall. I don’t normally like super-sparse design, but this is really relaxing to look at.

Details:

Wallpaper: Forgot where I got it originally, but a Google search for the filename should do it.

Instructions for clock/day/date

Weather and font info

Uptime and more

iTunes/Pandora

One minor problem I’ve noticed with the PandoraBuddy PandoraBoy app is that if I minimize it, the GeekTool script won’t pick up on the track change and I don’t know how to edit the script to fix it. As far as I can tell, a minimized app should still be picked up System Events, but perhaps not. Oh well. I’ve just taken to hiding the window at the far edge of my screen so I don’t see it and the script still works.

UPDATE: As an astute reader notes, hiding (clicking the red button) the iTunes or PandoraBoy app will remove the app from the screen and still result in updated song info with the script. Huzzah!