Shortcuts to see or to run on clicking on it (which seems too much effort) ?
And how do you guys have so much space at the top? I only print my local IP address and its color ( red/blue) depending on whether my mitmproxy is running or not and I don't have whole lot of space left on my MBP 15".
Argos is very useful. I use it to mount/unmount external drives, display power consumption, control VPN, a simple application launcher. Argos claims compatibility with BitBar.
Argos claims to support JavaScript Gnome Shell execution -- I have no reason to doubt this (as Argos itself is a JavaScript Gnome Extension).
I highly recommend Argos for Gnome 3 users.
Thank you! You won't believe that I've been looking for just this tool for the last several months (I've been searching along the lines of "i3 status bar for gnome-shell" but was unsuccessful).
Using argos with zenity let you provide inputs from prompted dialog in gnome make it feels like professional taskbar item :) you may find it tricky to execute a function inside your argos script and i found a simple way to make it works is to call the script itself and provide arguments to it. I wrote it here in my blog if you want a quick example to get started .
It can run alongside the system's menu bar clock. I've replaced the stock menu bar clock with "E yyyyMMdd-HHmm z" (so, for example, "Mon 20191216-1244 UTC"). And clicking it brings up a simple calendar. Simple and fast and works the way I think -- almost everything I want in a tool (wish it was open source).
Are you talking about additional clocks when you click on the Windows clock? Yeah, macOS has that too in the Notification Center (Today view, brought up by clicking the Notification Center button at the far end of the menu bar), allowing as many clocks as you want instead of a maximum of two. Plus the Windows clock can’t show seconds (without hacks) which is pretty infuriating.
Please ignore this if there’s a way to display multiple clocks on the Windows task bar natively.
Are you talking about the World Clock feature that doesn't support digital? Windows supports a 1 click view-all clocks from the taskbar. With MacOS, I have to click a few times to get to the "World Clock" module.
You click a few times to configure the world clock, but you only need to click once to view them. Not sure how that’s different from the Windows situation in any way.
(Btw I just noticed the clocks are analogue. I personally use the weather widget which in addition shows a digital clock for every city I communicate with on a regular basis.)
I use Bitbar to display my current Apple Music song in the menu bar.
Works pretty well, and it was easy to customize the iTunes script I downloaded from their user scripts page. Was nice when I went to Catalina and the only changed I needed to make was %s/iTunes/Music for the AppleScript target name change and the plugin just worked.
I’d call you a person of taste and sophistication.
But more objectively, it is always a pleasure to come to some open source code base and know you have few worries about language churn incurring a maintenance cost.
You could do something similar with AutoHotkey, I think. Of course you don’t have the option to have wide texts an graphs, but at least something of the size of an icon.
In X, you san use xsetroot. I have a few scripts to grab weather and time, and put these in my DWM status bar, refreshing every minute. Obviously this has a bit more eye candy but if you use Linux, you can approximate this pretty easily.
I've been using Bitbar for several years now. Very happy with it for what it does.
On my personal MBP, I use it to see when the GPU switches between dedicated and integrated. On my work laptop, I use it to see the current playing track on Spotify.
