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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.
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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.