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Including Spotlight, how many things do you keep on the right side of the main menu bar?
1/1: Including Spotlight, how many things do you keep on the right side of the main menu bar?
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8 items
Only eight items here: Spotlight, Users, Clock, Input Menu (the little flag), Airport, Time Machine, Menumeters RAM usage and processor activity.
Menubar icons
I have Evernote, Typinator, Quicksilver,YouControl Tunes, Hazel, MagicMenu (Stuffit), ProShutdown, Little Snitch, MenuCalendarClock, iChat, MenuMeter Network Activity, MenuMeter Disk Activity, Spaces, Apple Remote Desktop, Time Macine, Volume Control, and Spotlight. I turned off Pathfinder and Applescript. I really don't need the Volume Control since I use the keyboard (thanks Quicksilver!).
Menubar icons
You probably also don't need the iTunes control since QuickSilver will do that as well!
Hide some of them...
I Have:
My Icons
From Right to Left: Spotlight, Users, Clock, Bluetooth, Battery, Volume, Airport, Displays, iSync, TimeMachine, and Last.FM
My icons
Airport, iSync, Time Machine, iChat, Monitors, Audio, AppleScript, Keyboard, Date/Time, User, Eject, Spotlight
menus
12 including sound, monitor, bluetooth, airport, charge, isynch, modem, applescript, spaces and Time machine, input (international), clock (and also Fast user switching!)
19 or more...
spotlight, x-assist, fast user switching, date/time, keyboard, bluetooth, battery, volume, airport, displays, keychain, scripting, .mac, time machine, semulov, coconut wifi, weatehr dock, marco polo, and adium
12
Menu Meters, Google Notifier, Coversutra, and my own Quick Launch/Hot Key tool, among others, in order of when they first appeared on my menu bar.
unfortunate clutter
If it were up to me, it would be 0....unfortunately some features and apps (scripts menu, jumpcut, cover sutra, shimo among others) require it. I resisted this clutter for several years after switching to a mac but have finally succumbed.
how to manage
I would be interested to know how folks with lots of menu bar icons manage them. Two problems I find:
how to manage
Actually, there is a collapsible menubar add-on which I use: Butler - a lot of secondary functionality that would otherwise take up even more menu bar space have icons that I've instead replaced with icons and functions from within Butler that I've put in Butler's docklet (i.e. the Fast User Switching menu). I have it anchored to the upper right of my screen and I have Accordion Mode enabled, so it quietly stays out of my way until I mouse over it.
i love menu bar gadgets
from right to left...
19 or more....
Ugh, I have:
Lost Spotlight and can't get it back...
I lost my Spotlight menu and can't get it back...
I don't know how I removed it... I probably [Cmd-Dragged] it off the bar accidentally... Any idea how I can fix it? BTW, I've got [sheepishly]23[/sheepishly], but most of those are from iStat Menus. ---
Lost Spotlight and can't get it back...
Really? if you figure it out let us know. I'd love to get rid of it.
Lost Spotlight and can't get it back...
I don't know how I got rid of it... But it came back...
My Laptop's L to R
PTHCPUMonitor
Clearly too many!
Quicksilver, Mailplane, Anxiety, WeatherDock, Growl, smcFanControl, Security, TimeMachine, iSync, Airport, Displays, Energy Saver, Bluetooth, International, Spaces, Day/Time, iChat, Script menu, Fast User Switching, Spotlight
16 current status icons
1. Spotlight, 2. Fast User Switching, 3. Date & Time, 4. Input menu,
21
RemoteBuddy, JumpCut, TextExpander, Teleport, MenuMeters × 4, iScrobbler, and popular ones alredy mentioned…
11
Spotlight, day/time, volume, wifi, bluetooth, time machine, displays, faxmodem, alarm clock 2, iKeys, adium.
Only 9 on Mac Pro (more on PowerBook)
For me it's: Psi, Skitch, Google Notifier, SMARTReporter, Sophos, Keychain Access, Bluetooth, Date/Time, Spotlight
MenuMeters vs. iStatMenus
I'm surprised everyone uses MenuMeters vs. iStatMenus. I find iStatMenus more useful and better looking. Am I missing something?
MenuMeters vs. iStatMenus
I use iStatMenus; it seems to work great for me.
MenuMeters vs. iStatMenus
I've used MenuMeters on occasion, but never heard of iStat Menus -- I initially thought everyone meant "plain" iStat, which is uninteresting (to me) because I never have that much unused screen space, but iStat Menus looks kinda cool, and is here: iStat Menus.
MenuMeters renders details better, shows disk activity
iStat can't show disk activity in menu icon, you have to click it to get graph. MenuMeters' aqua diodes are very nice and as good as floppy diodes on Amiga :)
From left to right
Coversutra, Quicksilver, MacFusion, NetworkLocation, SlimBatteryMonitor, Applescript Menu, Time Machine, GeekTool, SynergyKM, Bluetooth, Airport, Fast User Switch, MenuCalendarClock, Spotlight. Phew!
I have 11, but it's actually 10
Google notifiers (gives me two icons, calendar and gmail)
My Bar
R2L:
24 or more
I stopped showing mounted volumes on the desktop, and instead show them in the menubar using Butler, so the number can change a bit.
Control Strip
There really should be some way to manage these better. I miss the old "control strip" in OS 9...
Ouch, there are 9!
RTL:
Mine =
spotlight, asm, time. volume, wireless, isync, script menu, workspaces (v-desktop pager), bluetooth, timemachine, clamXav sentry
What's the deal?
It seems like every poll here fits a nice bell curve except for the highest extremity. Are people just showing off or what?
Let's see...
It seems like every poll here fits a nice bell curve except for the highest extremity. Are people just showing off or what?Well, it seems pretty self-explanatory to me that an "or more" option wouldn't fit the bellcurve pattern, since it essentially encompasses a whole host of options above and beyond those explicitly represented... At any rate, I did have exactly nineteen, but I've just cleared out a few, so I now have sixteen. From right-to-left: Spotlight Hotspot Shield (for when I simply must convince a website I'm in the US ~_~) User Switching Date/Time Keyboard Layout (in addition to my usual British layout, I often have to type in Japanese, and the symbols in US Extended come in useful from time to time) AirPort Battery Displays Volume iChat Scripts Quicksilver TextExpander Jumpcut Gmail (email only, calendar disabled) Last.fm
my 6 cents
right-to-left: spotlight, input menu, weekday/clock, airport, keychain access, gmail notifier.
23!
R-L:
Only 9…
From right to left: Spotlight is there 'cause I don't have much choice_ I know there are hacks to kill it - but am lazy_
My 19 Items in Menu bar
Spotlight, Input keyboard(flag), Ink, Displays, Applescripts, Airport, Bluetooth, SoundSource, Spaces Prefs, Time machine, Dot Mac synching, Time/Date/Day of week, MainMenu, Eject, SoonR Agent, Gee, Skype, CopyPaste, X-Folder
More than I need really
I should probably get rid of sound and displays. I never change my display resolution now that classic is dead, and I use the keyboard for sound. I never really run any Apps that push into my icons, so I will probably never deal with it.
More than I need really
I just got a new MacBook Pro, so now battery, bluetooth (which I will probably get rid of), and Airport are in my menu. Total of 17.
Too many...
Right to left
18 Items
Right to left...
I have
Spotlight, Fast User Switching, Clock, Volume, International, AirPort, Bluetooth, Displays, iSync, iChat, Spaces, Time Machine, Alarm Clock 2, Growl, and Quicksilver
eleven
spotlight menucalendarclock volume battery airport menumeters(memory) input(language) bluetooth ichat TimeMachine Butler
14- no, 15
Left to right:
nobody uses Monocle ?
what you are missing: wafflesoftware.net
nobody uses Monocle ?
Well I had never heard of it... but since I'm going to view searches in my web browser anyway, why not used that little search thing in Safari?
13 items
From right to left...
My Icons
I have 15:
Would you believe 26?
I seem to have 26!
Meteorologist
No one uses Meteorologist?
15 Items
From Right - Left:
My setup
I have 19, but if you count all the items from iStat menus as one then it is 13.
My setup
I voted 9, but realize I have 10.
11
1. Quicksilver
5 now
1. Quicksilver
3, if Clock counts
I guess I am an oddball here, but I only have Volume, the Clock and Spotlight. I dont think I ever use Spotlight, and volume only rarely. The crazy thing is I have another clock on my desk anyway, so given how much I use the other two I could have 0, and that would be beauty indeed to me.
3, if Clock counts
You can just command drag the other 2 off, but Spotlight needs to be disabled via some hidden preference, I forgot which one it is but it's documented somewhere on this site.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102215912892&query=Disable%2BSpotlight Sebastian
12 for me
Microsoft My Day, Wakoopa, Growl, Keychain, Apple Remote Desktop, AppleScripts, iSync, Time Machine, Sound, Date & Time, Multi-user, Sherlock
18 items
Nokia Multimedia Transfer, Growl, Processor Prefs, iSync, TimeMachine, Spaces, Keychain Access, Modem Networking, Remote Desktop, AirPort, Bluetooth, Displays, Volume, Battery, International Keyboard, Fast User Switching, 24-hour digital clock with seconds, Spotlight
9 items
Spotlight
16
Aside from the usuals, I have Menu Calendar Clock, four from Menu Meters (cpu, memory, disk activity and network activity), Uptime in Menu Bar (uptime and load averages), Mac Fusion (for fuse-sshfs), and Aion (family timezone info).
16
Isolator, Jumpcut, Mail Unread Menu, Caffeine, MainMenu, Script Menu, Network (iStat), Memory (iStat), CPU (iStat), Spaces, Time Machine, Airport, Volume, Input Menu, Date & Time, Spotlight |
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