Reader geeklibrarian’s desktop is inspired by Momentum, one of our favorite Chrome extensions, and it looks beautiful. Peaceful and calming, but informative at the same time. Here’s how to get the same look.
First, you’ll need Geektool, a system monitoring and customization engine for Mac. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s our getting started guide, which should help you with the basics.
- The Höllental wallpaper, by Andi Kulse from InterFacelift
- The GeekTool system monitoring and customization tool for macOS
- The Bowtie app to create and customize the Now Playing widget (this one is using the Karma theme)
- Left – “Three Things” reads from a text file (shell geeklet: cat /path/to/filename.txt)
- Left – “Now Playing” is Bowtie with the Karma theme (works fairly well with Spotify + last.fm)
- Center – Time (simple Date command: date +”%l:%M”)
- Center – Greeting using a simple shell script found via Google
- Center – Date (simple Date command: date “+%A, %B %e”)
- Center – Today reads from a text file (or you could just as easily use “echo” twice in a shell geeklet)
- Center – Parsed RSS feed (dropbox.com) from QuotesDaddy.com(inspirational tag)
- Right – Weather geeklet by RikerJoe (thanks for this!)
Source: LifeHacker
