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Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by Khaine »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #17
ElijahLynn wrote: post #12

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.

You can also use Ice[1], which does the same thing and is open source

[1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by larusso »

brainzap wrote: post #29

with macs being so powerful, I am now only monitoring 12 hour energy consumption in Activity Monitor

I needed something like stats back when RAM was an issue on my MacBook 2011 (I installed 16Gb even so 8 was the official max from Apple) and the n during the 2020ish years before my first M series to figure out why my fans started to act up. Now I also only need to figure out what eats Batterie.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by tanvach »

ithkuil wrote: post #14
TMWNN wrote: post #4

For me Stats replaced MenuMeters, which has not been updated lately.

Menumeters still works for me on the latest MacOS (actually it's some fork of menumeters) What does this have that menumeters hasn't?

I've just switched, mainly it works 100% while some menumeter sensors do not show up on the menu bar for me. The drop down menu is also much more informative and modern with charts.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by bolognafairy »

imagetic wrote: post #15
herrkanin wrote: post #2

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 lost count of how many years I've owned a Bjango license. Amazing software.

One, two, three…Christ, 16 years here. This made me feel terrible. Thanks!

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by bolognafairy »

freehorse wrote: post #23
ElijahLynn wrote: post #12

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…

stickin out ya notch for the rizzler

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by reaperducer »

jamesmackennon wrote: post #5
karianna wrote: post #3

I’m being lazy (am an iStats user), has anyone here compared the two?

I swapped from stats to iStats a few years ago. I've found stats to be easier to customize and the UI is more uniform. That said, it doesn't have the weather widget, so I've kept iStats around solely for its weather functionality.

A weather widget is built-in to macOS now.

System Settings > Control Center > Weather

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by jedberg »

Khaine wrote: post #31
hombre_fatal wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can also use Ice[1], which does the same thing and is open source [1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

Looks like the features are very similar. Is there anything the commercial product does that the open source doesn't?

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by grishka »

sammcgrail wrote: post #19
grishka wrote: post #8

Heh, I installed this and immediately found out that "LegacyScreenSaver" has leaked 40 GB of memory.

are you on a work laptop? A lot of times they have screensavers for intel arch, and apple silicon might have something to do with this problem

No, it's my personal laptop and the screensaver is definitely native (ARM). It's probably just Apple being sloppy again.
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