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Re:Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app by veidr on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:45AM (#25630125)
One thing I recently discovered is that macOS has no capacity to deal with overflow of the "menu bar widget" area.

I had rotated my 27" 5K displays to portrait mode, which I find better for coding. That made the menu bar narrower. The widgets in the menu bar on the left side just don't appear when the frontmost app's menu is too wide.

Since I use iStat Menus for this purpose, which puts (in my configuration) 6 different widgets there, and have several others as well, lots of icons were simply inaccessible.

That is one argument for Pluto's approach here.

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Re:Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app by tomaskafka on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:16AM (#25630359)
Bartender app is great for that (and should have been sherlocked like 4 releases ago :))
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Re:Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app by veidr on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:50AM (#25630631)
Oh, great point! I forgot about that app, and indeed it would have saved the day.

(Ultimately, I decided I wanted at least one of my monitors landscape anyway... I realized this the first time I wanted to watch a video program, ha ha.)

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