Let me know what you come up with!Īlso, don’t forget to grab Marked 2 for 20% off before the 26th. A long time ago I had fun with Rainmeter on other platforms, so this weekend I thought Id give Geektool a shot on Catalina. I use the same style for CPU usage meters. The basic concept of this script can be applied to anything that offers a status report within a known range. The ARC font is a brilliant and flexible tool for GeekTool (and NerdTool) users. When you’re testing, be sure to “Back up now” from the Time Machine menu bar item so you have something to work with. If there’s no Time Machine backup running, it disappears. The script uses tmutil status ( man page) and parses out the raw percentage complete, converting it to an integer between 1 and 50, which it then maps to the alphabetical character that the font uses. Use the X/Y position numbers to position it exactly over the main Geeklet and then right click and “send to back”.
Set the color to a darker, more transparent version of the main Geeklet’s foreground color. Turn “Override text” on and type “Y” in the field. I built a little Geeklet that creates a circular progress indicator on my Desktop. That’s everybody, right I wanted a better indicator of whether Time Machine was running and how much it had left to back up. If you want a full-circle background to make it more of a progress meter, create a second shell Geeklet and set it to the ARC font at the same size as the first one. Here’s a quick hack for GeekTool users who use Time Machine and don’t have enough stuff on their Desktop. match ( /Running = 1 / ) raw_percent = plist. Update: I’ve fixed the code to recognize the 100% complete state.
Pick a foreground color/opacity by clicking the green color well in the font palette.Change the size of the circle by adjusting the font size in the font panel.
GEEKTOOL TIME BASED GOOD AFTERNOON INSTALL
Install the ARC font (unzip and double click the font file).Add a shell Geeklet with the path to the script as the command.Make it executable ( chmod a+x ~/scripts/tmstatus.rb).For this Geeklet, I’m liking just having a little 50-pixel translucent white circle on a dark area of my desktop. Because it’s a font, it works at any size and with any foreground color.
GEEKTOOL TIME BASED GOOD AFTERNOON FULL
By the time you get to “Z,” it’s a full circle. The ARC font is basically a partial circle that gets more complete as you move through the alphabet, lowercase first, then uppercase. You can do the same using the script below along with the ARC font (it’s hard to find these days for some reason, so I’m hosting a copy here). I wanted a better indicator of whether Time Machine was running and how much it had left to back up. Here’s a quick hack for GeekTool users who use Time Machine and don’t have enough stuff on their Desktop.
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