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GEEKTOOL FOR MAVERICKS UPDATE
GEEKTOOL FOR MAVERICKS PASSWORD

I have a check_mk site running with a few users using the default web I think I did something like that once, so I'm pretty sure it should work.ĭoes your automation user have the correct permissions to view the dashboard? I don’t need dashboard specifically, I just want to get past this authentication issue. So it’s redirecting from dashboard.py back to login.py for some reason instead of displaying a useful page. Trying the same URL in a browser for a better look reveals that I am redirected to login.py

GEEKTOOL FOR MAVERICKS PASSWORD

Like so:īut if I paste that URL into the GeekTool, the window just returns the password login dialog as if it didn’t see or accept the secret. I see in the Check_mk documentation that I should be able supply GeekTool with a URL that contains login credentials for the “automation” user.

I want to display a view from my Check_mk site inside one of these GeekTool regions on my desktop, but Geektool only accepts a URL, and doesn’t offer any interaction for entering a credential. I am also using GeekTool on MacOS, which allows you to plaster web content directly onto your desktop, much like Active Desktop on Windows. Some progress pictures of my desktop as I’ve developed new or updated widgets for Übersicht.I have a check_mk site running with a few users using the default web password authorization. I’ve moved over all my core GeekTool widgets to Übersicht and have started looking at some new ones too. Looking at replacing the predicted high temperature with the current temperature. Pretty Weather: a stripped down version of the weather widget I’m currently using.Sysmon Set: a whole set of widgets to monitor your system.The makers of Übersicht also have a gallery of widgets other users have created and were willing to share. Here’s a comparison of the output of the two scripts: Widget Gallery One common GeekTool GeekLet is displaying the availabile hard drive space on your Mac, using the following shell command: df -Hl | grep 'disk1' | awk '' GeekTool can take a shell command that you’d run in Terminal and use it for a Shell Geeklet. There are some subtle differences how GeekTool and Übersicht parse commands.

GEEKTOOL FOR MAVERICKS UPDATE

The update section replace the contents displayed based on the refreshFrequency.Īn example of a simple widget to show your public IP address using a simply Python script: Gist linkįelix Hageloh, lead on the Übersicht software project, has more details on widget development on GitHub.

update : When the widget is first run, it will take the command output and display the contents via the render section.

render : The function that is used to parse the information from the command to the style to display on your desktop.

style : The CSS styling to render the information you want shown on your desktop.

refreshFrequency : How often you want to run the shell command to refresh the information.

command : The shell command that will be used to help capture what information you want to see on your desktop.

The basic compoents of a widget includes: Shifting over to using HTML 5 in Übersicht generates a much more visually appealing presentation than previously possible with GeekTool. But what makes Übersicht stand apart from GeekTool is getting the widgets to be based on HTML 5 using either Javascript or Coffeescript as the widget file. Like GeekTool, Übersicht will alllow a user to create self contained widgets and have them rendered on your desktop. Übersicht, from Felix Hageloh, is a great update to the GeekTool concept.

A post last week by Patrick Welker ( opened me up to a new way to put widgets on my desktop. For a while I had several widgets (called Geeklets) run by GeekTool to display various information on my desktop. It’s been one of the subtle things that I’ve felt that separates OS X from Windows. I’ve been a big fan of GeekTool for a while.