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forquare1
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I've found a free tool on the App Stoer called GeekTool, it allows you to put the output of shell scripts, files or pictures on your desktop and make it appear as part of your wallpaper. Here's mine  It's a bit fiddly to start with, but quite cool 
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| Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:46 am |
 
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big_D
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That sounds a lot like the old widget system under KDE 3 and Linux. It was very powerful and flexible. I wrote a couple of process monitors for it, which displayed memory use, processor usage, disk access etc. as graphs and the process list from top.
If GeekTool is as flexible, it could be very interesting. Can you size the widgets, or does the desktop act as a single widget?
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| Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:23 am |
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forquare1
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You choose font, size, colour, position, etc.
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| Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:17 am |
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big_D
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But only "1" widget? With the KDE system, you could load up as many different widgets as you had screen space for, if you were silly enough to do so - more like the Widgets view in OS X, but overlayed on the desktop, behind any open windows.
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| Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:00 pm |
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forquare1
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No, in my image the time is one widget, the date is another, the calendar is another, the message telling me about storage and the internet is yet another...
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| Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:39 pm |
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