The 'Post your Mac Desktop' Thread

[oliverw92]

wish shapeshifter worked on 10.5.x

[Flux]

Ever wanted to get rid of the ugly spotlight icon from the menu bar?

Heres how:
There is no way in the system preference to remove the spotlight icon/functionality from the menu bar. But there is a quick terminal hack that allows you to get rid of it. Open up a terminal window and type the following:
Removal
1. sudo chmod 0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app an hit Enter. You'll need root access to your machine, and you'll be asked for a password. Once this command runs, enter this in the terminal:
2. killall Spotlight and hit Enter again. Once you do this, spotlight will be gone from your menu bar.

Reinstall:
To get spotlight back, enter these commands in the terminal window
1. sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app and then
2. killall Spotlight When you re-enable spotlight, you might get a warning like this:
No matching processes belonging to you were found but don't worry, after a couple of seconds your spotlight icon will show up again in your menu bar.

Im working on a new deskop, ill throw up a new screenie later on, Ive got lots of work to do.
Sidenote: Im doing some mods on my cosmos case today, will be worth checking out.

Screen:

[i n f a m o u s]

Just reformatted my HDD and still got some more applications I need to install.

[oliverw92]

how do you get it so the drive size is shown underneath the drive on the desktop?

[Flux]

Originally Posted by oliverw92

how do you get it so the drive size is shown underneath the drive on the desktop?

Right click desktop> Show View Options> Select Show Item Info and Bottom for Label Position.

[Dawlish7]

This is pre icon modifications just theme changes

[oliverw92]

does anyone know any good black themes?

[dizzy4]

ok... so it might not be OSX but it is on my 1st gen MacBook Pro

Seriously though, I will have to clean up my mac desktop before I dare show it around this thread

[ramenmeal]

i like more simplistic stuff, not really into all the snazzy stuff. obviously, running quicksilver, just not in the dock.

[sdla4ever]

Originally Posted by oliverw92

does anyone know any good black themes?

if you use magnifique they have Black OS X theme i use it i love it! just remember to turn of transparency in the system preferences