![]() You could rearrange that information when displayed through GeekTool with named groups very easily. Say for example that you match certain content that looks like the following: Pid I have used it to only show certain content that I am interested in or even rearrange the content into a certain order (named groups are supported). It is almost like a filter on the output from the process. One of the interesting features that I thought would also be helpful is the ability to use regular expressions to only display the content that I actually wanted to see. I have had issues with any command that continually polls and writes out to standard output (for example, the top command) because GeekTool waits for the process to exit to grab what it wrote to standard out and those processes don't ever "exit" (until, of course, someone hits Ctrl-C). I am sure there are other command-line utilities that could generate some great content for your backdrop. Usually I use SysInternals' excellent command-line PsList part of the also excellent PsTools) to output a continuously updated list of processes onto my desktop, but many other command-line applications should work just fine ( tail -f also works pretty well and is included in many Unix ports for Win32). And I stole their name, too, which is pretty lame, but I couldn't think up anything catchier. ![]() I figured it wouldn't be that difficult of an app to replicate for Windows users so I decided to do just that. ![]() One of my favorite applications for OS X is GeekTool which takes the output from a command-line process and, in essence, writes it to your desktop on a recurring basis. There seem to be a lot of Windows applications which will display certain information to your screen (memory usage, CPU utilization, etc.), but they are either chock-full of eye candy (widgets?) or are limited by the programmer to what they want to display I wanted something a little more flexible.
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