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GeekTool

geektool

GeekTool is a macOS application that lets you customize your desktop with great flexibility.

Detected by org.tynsoe.geektool3, org.tynsoe.GeekTool | macOS |www.tynsoe.org

Sync it geektool.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

GeekTool in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Preferences/org.tynsoe.geektool3.plist Sync

· ~/Library/Preferences/org.tynsoe.GeekTool.plist Sync

· ~/Library/Preferences/org.tynsoe.geeklet.file.plist Sync

· ~/Library/Preferences/org.tynsoe.geeklet.image.plist Sync

· ~/Library/Preferences/org.tynsoe.geeklet.shell.plist Sync

· ~/Library/Preferences/org.tynsoe.geeklet.web.plist Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/geektool.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "geektool"

name = "GeekTool"

homepage = "https://www.tynsoe.org/geektool/"

description = "GeekTool is a macOS application that lets you customize your desktop with great flexibility."

# The GeekTool application icon, from the vendor's own product page.

icon = "https://www.tynsoe.org/icons/geektool_512.png"

# GeekTool ships no command-line tool, so `detect` is the bundle identifier.

# GeekTool.app is a launcher around a preference pane, and the two halves have

# their own: org.tynsoe.GeekTool for GeekTool.app itself and org.tynsoe.geektool3

# for the helper that actually draws the desktop, GeekTool.prefPane/Contents/

# Resources/GeekTool Helper.app. Both read from the official build at

# https://s3.tynsoe.org/geektool/ with `plutil -p` on the Info.plist inside.

detect = ["org.tynsoe.geektool3", "org.tynsoe.GeekTool"]

platforms = ["macos"]

# The vendor's own documentation, https://www.tynsoe.org/geektool/documentation/:

# "Preferences are stored in the standard macOS preferences system, which stores

# persistant data in ~/Library/Preferences/ files. GeekTool's approach is to had

# a global preferences domain as org.tynsoe.geektool3.plist and per-geeklet

# configuration in org.tynsoe.geeklet.<file|image|shell|web> domain."

# So four geeklet domains, not three: the Homebrew cask's zap stanza

# (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/g/geektool.rb)

# lists file, image and shell but misses web, and the vendor's list is the one

# to follow. org.tynsoe.GeekTool is the launcher's own domain, which the cask

# does name; a machine that has used an older release still has it.

paths = [

"[preferences]/org.tynsoe.geektool3.plist",

"[preferences]/org.tynsoe.GeekTool.plist",

"[preferences]/org.tynsoe.geeklet.file.plist",

"[preferences]/org.tynsoe.geeklet.image.plist",

"[preferences]/org.tynsoe.geeklet.shell.plist",

"[preferences]/org.tynsoe.geeklet.web.plist",

]

exclude = []

# Nothing GeekTool stores is a credential. A shell geeklet runs a command the

# user typed, which could of course contain one; that is a matter for the

# consumer's content scan rather than a path this entry can name.

secret = []

# No machine_lines. These are property lists, which have no matcher in this

# schema — `format` covers toml, yaml and json only. Worth knowing that a

# geeklet does carry machine-local values a consumer able to read plists should

# handle: the screen coordinates each geeklet is pinned to, and the absolute

# paths a file geeklet tails or an image geeklet loads.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/geektool. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

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