OS X alternative to Samurize?

[156457]

Hey,

I'm looking for a Mac alternative to the Windows program, Samurize...
Something like this:
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/9636fb499578791New_Desktop_Image.png

I'd love to have the time and date with a semi-transparent bg at the bottom of my desktop or the sidebar to the far right of the screenshot on my desktop.

Thanksss

 

[reclusivemonkey]

I think geektool would be the closest match.

 

[daveV]

geektool

I've been looking for a Mac parallel to Samurize too. You can use Geektool scripts to replicate the effect somewhat by embedding the output of terminal commands on your desktop. If you make the background windows contiguous with the same tint you should get the semitransparent panel effect you're looking for.

Unfortunately geektool hasn't made the leopard jump, and I've seen some people blaming it for some fairly serious problems on these forums (I've had mine installed since Leopard came out and haven't had any problems yet). It would be nice if someone found an alternative that fully duplicates samurize's functionality and is stab;e on leopard.

 

[mckyvlle]

I'm using GeekTool on Leopard here. It's running well so far.

Just a couple of minor bugs that I noticed:
1) Triggering Exposé and/or Spaces at the same time causes the GeekTool display to go missing. Trigger Exposé one more time to get it back.

2) In the GeekTool Pref pane, toggling enable/disable GeekTool quickly can corrupt it's preferences file Not too big a deal since "quickly" here means double-clicking the checkbox/spamming the checkbox with clicks.