Disk Check

Every key is a labeled meter — sectors, index, cache, parity, chains, inodes — creeping up at its own pace over a faint track, with the percentage ticking along underneath. They do not fill together: the deck fills raggedly, some bars topping out while others are still halfway, and each flares white the moment it reaches the end.

The percentage is taken from the bar itself rather than counted separately, so the number under a full bar always says 100 and never drifts out of step with it. Labels and figures sit inside single keys, clear of the bezel.

Every other animated Stream Deck screensaver on the market is a video loop: somebody animated it once, exported it, and it plays out identically forever because there was never anything underneath. This one is a simulation that was played through and recorded frame by frame, which is why the good moments happen at different places each time it is built rather than at the same place every loop.

WHAT YOU GET. Three files, one for each deck: the MK.2 and the original 15-key at 480x272, the XL at 1024x600 and the Stream Deck + at 800x480. Use the one that matches your deck. An illustrated HTML guide and a plain README come with them, and the guide calls out the one mistake everybody makes once — the app has a "Set Image" button right next to "Set Animation", and the first one gives you a frozen frame.

HONEST LIMITS. This is an animated GIF, so it needs the Stream Deck app version 6.6 or newer. The Stream Deck MINI cannot display animations at all — that is a limitation of the hardware, not of this file, and it is better said here than discovered afterwards. Nothing here is affiliated with, licensed by or endorsed by Elgato or any game publisher; the artwork is original and drawn in code.

[317 words — Etsy has no minimum, but under 300 reads as thin]

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