Customizing your Desktop with your Personal Calendar

Since I’ve received a lot of questions about my custom desktop (at least from fellow mac owners), I’m finally posting the info. It’s all below : )

Wallpaper : by NEOkeitaro on deviantART

Desktop customization program (for mac) : Geektool

Geektool script for 7-day advance calendar (using icalbuddy – must be downloaded and installed for this to work) :

/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -nc -ic Work -nrd -npn -df "%A" -eed -sd -tf "@%H:%M" -n -sed eventsToday+9 | sed -e "s/*/--/" | sed -e "s/!/!!/"

(Make sure to read the installation instructions from icalbuddy provided in the ReadME file.)

Geektool script for monthly calendar with current day in black :

cal_head=`cal | head -1`; cal_tail=`cal | tail -7`; today=`date "+%e"`; echo "${cal_tail/${today}/\033[1;30m${today}\033[0m}";

Numerical day : date +%d

Day of the week : date +%A

Month : date +%B

Time : date '+%H:%M'

Font : AvantGarde LT ExtraLight