GeekTool updated for Panther
Iâve mentioned before that Iâm an avid user of GeekTool, so I was disappointed to find that it was broken in Panther. I sorely missed the little bits of information that got written to my desktop, though my desktop is already pretty rich in information. Iâm glad to say that GeekTool has now been updated for Panther and works fine.
I had a nice GeekTool entry which ran an Applescript written by Pete, which listed the mailboxes in Mailsmith with unread messages, and gave the unread message count. This was very handy as Mailsmith doesnât have a message count on the Dock icon like Mail. The only problem I had was that I would forget to disable the script when I wanted to logout or shutdown. As GeekTool runs the script at intervals, it would start up Mailsmith again, and therefore prevent me from logging out. Relying on me to remember to do anything is fraught with danger and disappointment, so I wanted to alter the script to check if Mailsmith was running before it did anything. That turned out to be inexplicably hard1, but Iâve managed to get it working now.
Good job we're not all the same!…