[headbirth]

I seem to remember an app that would place a transparent terminal window on your desktop. Anyone know of such an animal?

[nagromme]

It's included with OS X. The standard Terminal (in Utilities) can be transparent--you can even choose a picture backdrop and make THAT transparent. It's all in the app's prefs.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by headbirth:
I seem to remember an app that would place a transparent terminal window on your desktop. Anyone know of such an animal?

are you on about AquaMon?

[chabig]

This is the one you want: GeekTool

Chris

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by chabig:
This is the one you want: GeekTool

While I always thought these tools were nifty, I never found a use for them. What kind of stats do you guys monitor? I'd be down to use GeekTool if I had something to put on my desktop... Right now I've got a shell running "w" on there. Heh.

[headbirth]

Thanks guys ... I'll take a look at these. I use OnMyCommand alot and kind of hate to have terminal lanuched all the time for some of my actions.

[nooon]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
While I always thought these tools were nifty, I never found a use for them. What kind of stats do you guys monitor? I'd be down to use GeekTool if I had something to put on my desktop... Right now I've got a shell running "w" on there. Heh.

I would definately use Geektool if I knew more about unix. like how to filter uptime and top to make them show just what I want them to show.

anyone know of any "tutorials" ?

[york28]

What you are looking for is "grep". Here's an example (note the vertical bar, or "pipe"):

Code:
ps -aux | grep httpd

This would filter the results of the ps command and only show lines with the text "httpd".

Man grep has more info, as would a google search.

[Mithras]

Originally posted by headbirth:
Thanks guys ... I'll take a look at these. I use OnMyCommand alot and kind of hate to have terminal lanuched all the time for some of my actions.

You can use OMCEdit to change the command from calling Terminal to using system() or popen() if it's something that doesn't require interaction from you.

[chabig]

I used to use GeekTool to display the console log on my desktop. No reason really, other than to see what's happening. I stopped that when I installed Panther.

Chris

[RayX]

Also:

MkConsole

[headbirth]

what exactly is the difference between poopen and system?

[Mithras]

Originally posted by headbirth:
what exactly is the difference between poopen and system?

Nothing, as far as commands called from the Finder. I think popen opens a pipe to the program, so it could be used to feed the selected text into a script, while system just calls the program with the appropriate arguments.

But for the kinds of things you're doing, it wouldn't make a difference.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by chabig:
I used to use GeelTool to display the console log on my desktop. No reason really, other than to see what's happening. I stopped that when I installed Panther.

That's the default that comes with GeekTool... haha. I think that it looks cool to have text flying by on your desktop but I don't care what is in the log. Bah! On my server I use GeekLog and I put a shell with "w" in it, and then a shell with "cal" in it. So I have some basic stats and a quick view of the month.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by RayX:
Also:

MkConsole

That's the ticket.

GeekTool is useless to me in Panther because the console isn't sticky; that is, it flies out of the way when you use Exposé.

-s*