Seems to get more usable results, regardless of popularity or number of downloads, which will probably increase over time. The better way is to search by date and find the newest stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Įdit: Having said all that, I think part of my problem was going with the most popular widgets/scripts/geeklets.
#MAC GEEKTOOL FOR MAC#
Looks like desktop info just isn’t as popular for Mac users as Rainmeter still is for the Windows community. I’m on the Keyboard Maestro forum all the time, by way of comparison, and if that program were to ever go under there would be a lot of hard-core Mac geeks having a very, very bad day (myself included). While I can live without most of the nerdy stuff I kept on my desktop just for fun, one thing I did like was having a window with a photograph in it from a particular website that updated every few minutes.
#MAC GEEKTOOL PRO#
I totally agree it can work, but it doesn’t seem like much of a community supporting it. I just got my new M1 macbook pro (yay) but after setting it up, saw that I lost one of my favorite tools - Geektool. I think the summarized, oversimplified answer I was looking for is probably yes, that kind of desktop hackery isn’t much of a thing for many Mac users anymore, if it ever was. While I’m well aware that well-written code can last for years, I get the impression the enthusiasm for the concept of informative desktop widgets has waned. proved my point about all the discussions and resources seeming outdated – that link goes back to 2018. I appreciate the thoughtful responses and I had a feeling I wasn’t being clear about what I was looking for, but somehow I think you got the gist. Question: Are desktop widgets basically just a dead genre of software for MacOS, while we wait for MacOS and iOS to finish merging and share widgets? Or is my experience atypical and I should just keep hacking away at it? What has your experience been with them? I keep getting error messages about an undefined “data” variable. (Though the weather widget’s summary says you don’t need an API anyway). Darksky doesn’t provide API keys anymore, but I can’t figure out what happened after Apple took over.
I can’t get it to run after multiple settings fixes and it looks like abandonware – the last time it was touched appears to be two years ago. The most-downloaded widget, for example, seems DOA.
The results were similar for me – scripts that don’t work. After hacking away at it for a while, I figured I’d give Üebersicht a try, since that seemed like another good candidate. But one pre-baked script after another had old APIs, defunct dependencies, and deprecated scripting language. I got a few simple geeklets to work, created a few from scratch after setting up a good Ruby environment, etc. A long time ago I had fun with Rainmeter on other platforms, so this weekend I thought I’d give Geektool a shot on Catalina.
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