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Step 4Use GeekTool to display stats.

Use GeekTool to display stats.
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  • desktop with geektop.tiff
  • geektool window.tiff
First, download GeekTool from http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/download.php. Then install it. Then you can use various unix commands to display pretty much whatever you want on your desktop.
Here are some examples: Time: date "+%l:%M %p"
Date: date +%d
Day: date +%A
Month: date +%B
Memory: top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "Used: " $8 " Free: " $10}'
Uptime: uptime
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