#MENUMETERS IN LINUX MAC OS X#
Linux Having a Mac OS X like dock and menubar experience with Arch Linux with. MenuMeters is a cool OSX taskbar app that displays CPU usage/RAM usage/disk activity/network activity and speeds, etc. This will create an independent app which runs outside of System Preferences. Try MenuMeters (free, has been around forever, and it has an option for. Ok, I've spent several hours doing research and yet I've still not been able to locate anything similar to MenuMeters for OSX so I figured I'd ask the question. To hack:Ĭlone the git repo, open MenuMeters.xcodeproj, and build the target MenuMeters.
#MENUMETERS IN LINUX ANDROID#
There are more than 25 alternatives to MenuMeters for El Capitan for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and Android Tablet. This is due to an increasing amount of security features imposed by Apple on preference panes running within System Preferences, which made it too cumbersome to develop MenuMeters as a preference pane. MenuMeters for El Capitan is described as This is a port to OS X El Capitan 10.11 of MenuMeters by Alex Harper and is a system information utility in the system & hardware category. More recently, starting from Catalina, MenuMeters was changed from a preference pane within System Preferences to an independent app. If you’re familiar with Linux you’re probably used to having a nifty system resources ‘gauge’ that provides live information about processor activity, RAM use, network activity and more. Since then, many people contributed pull requests, most of which have been incorporated. I know this is a post about enhancing Apple trackpads, but first a quick note about MenuMeters. I'm making here a minimal modification so that it runs as a faceless app, putting NSStatusItem's instead of NSMenuExtra's. The original version does not work on El Capitan and later, due to the fact that SystemUIServer doesn't load Menu Extras not signed by Apple any longer. It's a great utility originally developed at. If you'd like your version mentioned here, please tell me at the issues page. which has new features in the CPU meter, etc.There are also further forks of my version of MenuMeters, which implement more features. What is more, they are maintained actively. Which are all menubar monitors with more modern look and feel and more capability. If you run sufficiently new mac OS, try one of
Other versions & related open source softwares: The detailed installation instruction is given in the former. If you just want to use it, please go to or and download the binary. My fork of MenuMeters for El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur.