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I had a neat program like this for Windows in the early 2000s. Got it from a Microsoft engineer who unfortunately I lost contact with. It must have been the lightest-weight resource monitor program to have ever existed for Windows NT, 2000, CE, and XP. Basically it took the Task Manager's resource meters, displayed them transparently, and set them on the upper-right corner of the screen.
I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to update the docs though right now. Edit: I just see the battery widget not any of the other ones. This is a confusing onboarding experience. Edit2: ah, they were all hidden because of Macs crap UX on menubar space. No indication there are more menu item. What a poor design decision Mac.
Yeah, it's really bad UX how icons simply don't show up if there's no room on macOS. There should at least be a spillover. Back in the day I paid for https://www.macbartender.com/ to get these features.
I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to update the docs though right now. Edit: I just see the battery widget not any of the other ones. This is a confusing onboarding experience. Edit2: ah, they were all hidden because of Macs crap UX on menubar space. No indication there are more menu item. What a poor design decision Mac.
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding
IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times and, on top of that, the top 5 apps consuming each one of them. It should be a default feature of computing devices by now, but it's so far from that which only benefits bad actors (resource hogs, bad software). I shouldn't have to launch activity monitor every time I want such basic info.
I'll try this out.
The lack of a systray on MacOS is one of the reasons I really hate the interface. Stuff like this can partly make up for that.
I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to update the docs though right now. Edit: I just see the battery widget not any of the other ones. This is a confusing onboarding experience. Edit2: ah, they were all hidden because of Macs crap UX on menubar space. No indication there are more menu item. What a poor design decision Mac.
Alright, bet. Wanna make your Mac menu bar less clunky? Here’s the tea. Pop these commands in your terminal to tighten it up: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8 defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8 Changed your mind? No cap, just undo it with these: defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing defaults -currentHost delete -gl…
I've been for many years a happily paying customer of iStat Menus [1], from which this seem to be the heavily inspired of. [1] https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
I've tried Stats over the years as the project has evolved and I keep coming back to iStat Menus. Stats feels very inspired by iStats Menus's design as well. The one thing I appreciate about Stats though is support more SMC sensor values.