Project site has installers, source code, and news updates. One warning: While most users report that MacFUSE and NTFS-3G are quite stable, we’re talking about a file system here, so use caution: Try out the software before you rely on it for anything critical. Note that not all of these other systems will work in OS X.) (Although NTFS-3G is getting the most buzz, there are many more FUSE-compatible file systems you can try. Your Mac should now be ready to mount, read from, and write to NTFS volumes. If, for example, your goal is to get full access to a Windows NTFS volume, download the
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You then need to install one of the file systems that MacFUSE supports. Installing MacFUSE is simple: You download a disk image from macworld. If you need to run your script only once an hour, set Refresh to By default, shell commands refresh every 10 seconds. To keep GeekTool entries from hogging unnecessary system resources, try to be as conservative as possible with each entry’s refresh rate. When you’re specifying a color for text or shell output, remember to take your desktop background into account: if your desktop is dark, choose a lighter color for the output (and vice versa). No matter which of those three options you choose, you can specify a location on screen (using x-y coordinates), a size in pixels, and text formatting. To monitor the CPU and memory usage of active processes, combine the shell’s top and tail commands: top -FR -o cpu -n 20 -l 2 | tail -21.įinally, if you want to embed local or Web-based images on your desktop, you simply choose the Picture option, and then supply a URL. You can also use piping, as in ifconfig en0 | grep netmask (which displays your Mac’s current IP address). To see how long your Mac’s been up and running, for example, select Shell, and then type uptime in the Command field. As events occur on your Mac, the system log will update live on your desktop.Īnything you can do from the Terminal command line, you can do with a GeekTool Shell entry.
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