To add a certain type of Desklet to the Desktop, click "Add Shell", "Add Image", or "Add Text." If you add a Shell Desklet, enter a command in the Command text field then hit Enter. If you add an Image Desklet, enter the URL or path to the image file and hit Enter. If you add an Text Desklet, enter the path to the text file (Plain text only, .txt) and hit Enter.

Once you have a Desklet displayed, you can set the font style, background color, refresh rate, and custom make it you however you want.

Please note that having too many Desklets refresh too often can have a negative impact on performance. It's recommended not to have more than two or three Desklets that refresh every 1 second. Most Desklets will be fine with the default refresh rate, which is 3600 seconds (one hour).

Since Mach Desktop is a "faceless" app, normal keyboard combinations won't work. You can, however, right-click on the text field and choose "Paste."

You can't run Geeklet™ files directly. But many Geeklet files are bash, sh, ruby, python, or applescripts; all of which will run fine in Mach Desktop. Geeklet commands will work fine with Mach Desktop as well.

Again, you can't run gDesklet™ files directly. But many gDesklet files are python scripts; which will run fine in Mach Desktop.

Enter to the path to the file, for example: /Users/yourname/Pictures/picture.jpg

/path/to/script.bash

/path/to/script.sh

This will work also:

sh /path/to/script.sh

python /path/to/script.py

You can also enter an argument like this:

python /path/to/script.py argument

ruby /path/to/script.rb

osascript /path/to/script.scpt