By default, geeklet text is a bit on the small side so you’ll probably want to scale it up a few points. This window contains a wealth of options for customising your text, including changing its colour so it’s easier to read against your particular Desktop background, and altering the size of the text. Select the ‘Click here to set font & color….’ button, which will open the system’s standard ‘Fonts’ window. If you don’t specify a refresh rate, then your geeklet will never update.Īt this point, you’ll probably want to make some changes to the size and style of your geeklet’s text. This estimate will change over time, so make sure you specify how often this geeklet should update, by entering a value into the ‘Refresh every’ field. The containment box on your Desktop will then update to display your device’s estimated battery life. IsFull圜harged=`ioreg -n AppleSmartBattery | grep Full圜harged | awk ‘’`Ĭlick the red cross in the editor’s upper-left corner and, when prompted, confirm that you want to save your changes. Copy/paste the following code into this editor, making sure not to alter any of the whitespace between each line: This will open an external script editor, which you should use whenever you need to create a script that’s longer than one line. In the ‘Properties’ menu, find the ‘Name’ field and give your geeklet a name.įind the ‘Command’ field and click its accompanying three-dotted icon (where the cursor is positioned in the screenshot below). ĭrag a ‘Shell’ geeklet onto your desktop.Now you have an overview of how GeekTool works, let’s get stuck into creating our battery geeklet: Creating a ‘Battery Time Remaining’ Geeklet This process will vary slightly depending on the kind of geeklet you want to create, but these are the fundamental steps underpinning every geeklet you create in GeekTool. You can also make functional changes, most notably adding scripts to your Shell geeklets. The ‘Properties’ menu includes options for making cosmetic changes, such as altering the size of the geeklet’s text and its position inside the containment box. This creates a rectangular containment box on your Desktop, and opens a ‘Properties’ menu that contains all the options for configuring this particular geeklet. To create a geeklet, select one of the four geeklet icons (log, shell, image or web) and then drag this icon from the GeekTool window and drop it onto your Desktop. Add a GeekTool icon to your Mac’s menu bar. If you want your geeklets to be running constantly, then you should set GeekTool to launch automatically at login. Start GeekTool as soon as you log into your account. You’ll need to have GeekTool enabled before you can create and use geeklets. Toggle this checkbox on and off, to enable and disable GeekTool. These are one of the most flexible and powerful kinds of geeklets you can create, allowing you to run any Shell script and display the results of those scripts on your Desktop.Īlong the right side of the window you’ll also find some configuration options for GeekTool as a whole: These visuals can either update automatically based on a schedule, or in response to certain events. Displays image-based content, such as network graphs, video streams or a slideshow of images. Alternatively, you can run your own HTML code inside a Web geeklet. Allows you to display content pulled from the Internet. You can use log geeklets to monitor what’s going on across your Mac, right from your Desktop. Prints information about system and application activity in plain text format. How To Show Battery Percentage On iPhone X Without Taking a Lot of Time In this article, I’m going to show you how to use the GeekTool app to create a widget, or “geeklet,” that allows you to see this missing battery estimate information, from the comfort of your Sierra Desktop. Having a rough idea of how much longer your battery is going to hold out for is pretty useful, so understandably some Mac users aren’t too happy with Apple’s decision to remove this feature.Īt the time of writing, macOS doesn’t give you a way of re-adding this estimate to your Mac menu bar, so if you want a rough idea of how much longer your current charge is going to last, then you’re going to have to get creative. If you’re running the latest version of Sierra, then try clicking the battery icon in the menu bar: you’ll notice that the ‘Battery time remaining’ estimate is no more.Īlthough battery estimates are never 100% accurate (there’s a reason they’re called estimates, after all) MacBooks are designed to be mobile, so many users depend on their Mac’s internal battery on a day-to-day basis. The latest release of macOS Sierra (update 10.10.2, if you’re counting) saw an interesting change, as Apple removed a long-standing feature of the Mac user interface.
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