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Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#51

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.

weird, they all appeared for me

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#52
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What’s the slang about? The OP doesn’t seem to be using any slang or colloquialisms. I thought it was funny but I don’t think I fully got the joke.

It's like ZoomerGPT or something. I actually needed a smile so i appreciated it.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#53

Neat little app, but it made bluetoothd go bananas on my CPU, chewing up to 40% (M2 MBA here)

That is explained in the FAQ, apparently the bt module is inefficient but you can disable it.

I disabled the module but it still chews up a lot of CPU.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#54
post #26

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.

How is a menu bar app not a substitute for the systray?

Because programs can not register an icon to minimize the apps to the menubar app while providing core functionality and info via a context menu and tooltips, at least AFAIK.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#55
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What’s the slang about? The OP doesn’t seem to be using any slang or colloquialisms. I thought it was funny but I don’t think I fully got the joke.

wasn’t deep or nun, lowkey just wanted to help, learned this terminal thingy here fs

I have a system prompt for haiku to convert messages to genz slang. I use it to confuse friends with it sometimes and we have a laugh. I had the instructions somewhere stored and just wanted to rewrite them before posting them here because I am paranoid and did not remember if i posted them verbatim in another place with another username.

I know this is not really the place for this sort of thing, but if some people smiled a bit I am good with that

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#56
post #32

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.

I need it on apple silicon for the opposite reason, because there is basically no feedback from the computer if something is eating all then resources. Eg sometimes something eats my ram and it starts swapping and I do not even notice.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#57
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What’s the slang about? The OP doesn’t seem to be using any slang or colloquialisms. I thought it was funny but I don’t think I fully got the joke.

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Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#58
post #46

This looks like a clone of iStat Menus which I had installed for years and years till one day I realized I basically never look at it and the icons were just taking up space in my menu bar. I finally un-installed it. The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.

the one I use most often is about://peformance in Firefox

I used to open up Activity Monitor, but every single time my laptop fans kick on, it was the browser. with the browser performance monitor, i can see exactly which tab is being naughty. So now, I skip Activity Monitor and go straight to the source. Usually, a cmd-R on the offending tab brings it back under control. I assume some JS dev has not tested their code by having it running in a tab for an amount of time other than how long it takes to test their changes.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

#59

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…

This makes me cringe. No one talks like that
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