I replied to some people on Twitter and included Bjango....they haven't commented back.
That and someone offered money and it seems they still won't update it:
https://twitter.com/bjango/statuses/228807155682258944
-Kevin
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iStat Pro replacement?
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I replied to some people on Twitter and included Bjango....they haven't commented back.
That and someone offered money and it seems they still won't update it:
https://twitter.com/bjango/statuses/228807155682258944
-Kevin
Fix for the double bars in Tall format
Ok, so after taking a look....it seems that for some reason, the background images used in the Tall bars for showing disk usage where positioned starting in the center, and wrapping around. This is what was causing the bars to look like they were doubled.
No idea why it started happening, but here's a solution to the CSS file to fix it. Not sure if some ML update will change this in the future, so use at your own risk. I'll repeat Budlus's instructions for finding the file:
1. Locate your widget, it will be under /Library/Widgets or ~/Library/Widgets
2. Right click it and select: "Show Package Contents"
3. Open core.css in some editor
4. Locate the block (for me it's starting on line 7) and add the following line in RED.
5. Directly under this block, ADD the following CSS statement:
By adding this statement to the core.css file, it will affect all colors for the widget.
6. You can either remove and re-add the widget, or just kill the Dock and restart Dashboard by going to terminal and entering: killall Dock
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-Kevin
Ok, so after taking a look....it seems that for some reason, the background images used in the Tall bars for showing disk usage where positioned starting in the center, and wrapping around. This is what was causing the bars to look like they were doubled.
No idea why it started happening, but here's a solution to the CSS file to fix it. Not sure if some ML update will change this in the future, so use at your own risk. I'll repeat Budlus's instructions for finding the file:
1. Locate your widget, it will be under /Library/Widgets or ~/Library/Widgets
2. Right click it and select: "Show Package Contents"
3. Open core.css in some editor
4. Locate the block (for me it's starting on line 7) and add the following line in RED.
Code:
.verticalbarbg {
background-image:url(./images/common/bar_vertical_bg.png);
width:8px;
overflow:hidden;
[B][COLOR="Red"]background-position: -4px 0;[/COLOR][/B]
}5. Directly under this block, ADD the following CSS statement:
Code:
[B].verticalbar {
background-position: -4px 0;
}[/B]By adding this statement to the core.css file, it will affect all colors for the widget.
6. You can either remove and re-add the widget, or just kill the Dock and restart Dashboard by going to terminal and entering: killall Dock
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-Kevin
Also works for iStat nano
Just for those who haven't figured it out yet, the BUDULS recipe also works for iStat nano, the file to be edited is now called workers.js.
Just for those who haven't figured it out yet, the BUDULS recipe also works for iStat nano, the file to be edited is now called workers.js.
Have anyone considered Istat from the MAS as a replacement?
It should be more accurate. Also how much ram does Istat Pro use?
I love istat pro but I am considering doeing a switch to the app on ML.
It should be more accurate. Also how much ram does Istat Pro use?
I love istat pro but I am considering doeing a switch to the app on ML.
I think most of us in this thread want to use iStat Pro as a dashboard widget....not an app or a menubar utility.
As a dashboard widget....resource usage is low and I believe it only updates when the dashboard is active.....when I load dashboard....I can see it take a second to update numbers.
I love it as a widget....it's out of the way.
I tried iStat Menus. Nice app. Nice that you can collapse into a single menubar item. Still, I don't need all that.
I use the widget to glance at stats.....glance at my temps, or processes, or network traffic. I don't really care about the stats....just need to glance and see at certain times.
-Kevin
Me too. But I have been tempted to see if I could live with the app...
Thanks for the tips in this thread btw! Nice to know that I can still keep istat pro in ML.
Strange that no one has made an alternative to the widget now that development has ceased...
Thanks for the tips in this thread btw! Nice to know that I can still keep istat pro in ML.
Strange that no one has made an alternative to the widget now that development has ceased...
Anyone else getting weird drive space readings?
Finder shows 118 GB available, iStat shows 79 GB.
Running 4.92. Tried reinstalling, deleting the pref files, with and without the mods to make it work better on 10.8, nothing seems to fix the drive space issue.
Finder shows 118 GB available, iStat shows 79 GB.
Running 4.92. Tried reinstalling, deleting the pref files, with and without the mods to make it work better on 10.8, nothing seems to fix the drive space issue.
Dashboard itself is running all the time, but the iStat widget isn't constantly polling the system. If I go to dashboard after a while, it takes a few seconds for the widget to update.
I've never had an issue with dashboard and resources. Not saying iStat menus is bad since I don't know.
-Kevin
Ah! Nevermind. iStat is correct. I had Local Snapshots disabled on my Macbook while on Lion and ML reenabled it, taking up 43 GB or so. iStat and Disk Utility are showing the same amount of free space, Finder assumes it can overwrite the backups when it needs to and shows more.
The problem seems to be that $1 is always empty and the egrep in ML doesn't seem to like that. Your fix seems to work, but it isn't technically the same thing. Try replacing egrep "PID|$1" with grep -e "PID" -e "$1" for a more faithful replacement... Though I don't know if it really changes anything.
