The Edge of the World Desktop

This OS X desktop is simple, elegant, and combines a few simple widgets with a gorgeous wallpaper to great effect. If you like what you see, here’s how you can set it up, customize your own menubar, and give your Mac the same look.

This desktop comes to us from DN Carr, who submitted it to our Desktop Show and Tell Pool over at Flickr. To make it your own, you’ll need to use GeekTool, which we have a great getting started guide for here.

Once you have it installed and have a handle on the basics, here’s what you’ll need:

The wallpaper

The GeekTool system monitor and configuration utility for OS X to create the time and date display

The Bowtie utility for the Now Playing display

The Gill Sans Bowlet specifically, with a few modifications (he provides the specific file he’s using here)

The Bartender utility to rearrange items in the Mac’s menubar

The cDock 2 utility and Liteicon to customize the dock

The Zion icon pack to change the system icons

The Champagne and Limosuines system font

All in all, there’s a lot of tweaking and customization going on here to make it just the way DN Carr likes it, but the effect is minimal and good looking. As always, you can take or leave the components you like for your own system—maybe you don’t need the time and date on the desktop, but you do like the icon pack and the customized dock, for example. Either way, hit the link below to see more about how he made it, and to let him know how much you like his work.

Do you have a good-looking, functional desktop of your own to show off? Share it with us! Post it to your personal Kinja blog using the tag Desktop Showcase or add it to our Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr pool. Screenshots must be at least at least 1280x720 and please include information about what you used, links to your wallpaper, skins, and themes, and any other relevant details. If your awesome desktop catches our eye, you might get featured!