Of course, those with large screens will have everything visible at all time even without the trick.

With myrecent adventure with GeekTool, everything comes full circle.

Being a command-line based system, iCalBuddy is the perfect scripting solution to be used along with GeekTool.

The file explorer on the Dell XPS 14 9440.

This means dragging out shell geeklets from GeekTool prefPane to the desktop and editing the items.

The most important part of the geeklet is the Command pane.

This is the place where you write the command line to tell GeekTool what to do.

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There are a whole lot of variations that you could use with iCalBuddy’s command line.

As for me, these are the strings that I use for my desktop.

!/"

These strings are not mine.

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I picked them up from a discussion between iCalBuddy users and the creator.

So, the credit goes to them.

And here’s the final result (for now).

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You could just let your creativity run loose and design your own.

As for the layout, size and color, I think the screenshot has revealed them all.

ical events on desktop

ical events on desktop