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Anyone know of a good alternative to geektool in macos x? I recently switched to ubuntu and it's not compatible with ubuntu.

Geektool lets you display various information on your desktop, like log files, system ressource usage or the output of any shellscript.

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Search for log in dash. Look for:
Look for 'System Log', 'Log Viewer' etc

You can go through various logs:
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You can also use it to open and view other logs.

To view the log currently in memory, run dmesg, you may want to maximise the terminal first, as there is quite alot of output...

For current System Usage, use 'System Monitor':
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And for the rest, just use Terminal

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    Thanks for your reply but all are missing one important feature is that showing the log in desktop.
    – BTR Naidu
    Commented Mar 7, 2014 at 8:29
  • See this here and here.
    – Wilf
    Commented Mar 7, 2014 at 17:16
  • thanks but with conky it not that straight forward.
    – BTR Naidu
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 13:45
  • It should be fairly straightforward - did you try these instructions?
    – Wilf
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 14:04
  • I did but I have to issues. 1) I am using kbuntu and not gnome. 2) I dont want all the stuff around it. Just want the log monitor.
    – BTR Naidu
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 16:38
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If you install KDE Plasma as a display environment, you can install the Termoid widget (requires the package qmltermwidget).

This makes it possible to run arbitrary commands and have the standard output displayed directly on your desktop. It can be rerun at given intervals (making it dynamic) as on Geektools.

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