It was only a matter of time before somebody used the classic Super Mario game as the basis for a system customization—like reader Ghostspirit's fun, retro Mario desktop.


The desktop is very simple and doesn't take a lot of resources—consisting of nothing more than a number of GeekTool scripts to put system information on the desktop. The full list includes:

Airport & Ethernet status script.

Date & Time script.

Memory & Trash folder usage.

Wallpaper from 4scrape

The fonts are Emulogic Mario & Luigi

The result is a fun, attractive desktop with a great retro feel, and you can hit the link to get all of the scripts used to create the effects. Great job, Ghostspirit!


Want to create your own OS X desktop customization? Check out our guide to monitoring your Mac and more with GeekTool to add basic system stats and information, then learn how to add current weather and a desktop calendar with GeekTool.

Once you've created your own beautifully tweaked (and hopefully productive) desktop, post it over in the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Group complete with a description of the programs and tweaks you used (and preferably links as well!), and we just might feature it here.

Super Mario Desktop [Flickr]