Comments on: Essential Mac Apps: X Resource Graph http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/01/20/essential-mac-apps-x-resource-graph/ by Mark Mayo Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:22:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: mark http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/01/20/essential-mac-apps-x-resource-graph/#comment-9948 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:31:40 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/01/20/essential-mac-apps-x-resource-graph/#comment-9948 Yeah, I've used Menu Meters as well. It's also excellent. I can't put my finger on why exactly, but for some reason I don't like having much stuff up in the menu bar. Feels cluttered, or something. That being said, I do like being able to see what's going on without having to bring the window to the foreground. For that reason I wish XRG (like activity monitor and iPulse) had an updating Dock icon for, say, one of the meters. Note that XRG can be as big / small as you want, and you can choose from a bunch of different "boxes" to display. I actually turn most of them off. I suspect my affection for XRG might be related to the fact that I've always had systems / network graphs running under X11 displays. So XRG probably feels more warm and comfortable to me than, say, someone who doesn't come from a UNIX background. :) Yeah, I’ve used Menu Meters as well. It’s also excellent. I can’t put my finger on why exactly, but for some reason I don’t like having much stuff up in the menu bar. Feels cluttered, or something. That being said, I do like being able to see what’s going on without having to bring the window to the foreground. For that reason I wish XRG (like activity monitor and iPulse) had an updating Dock icon for, say, one of the meters.

Note that XRG can be as big / small as you want, and you can choose from a bunch of different “boxes” to display. I actually turn most of them off.

I suspect my affection for XRG might be related to the fact that I’ve always had systems / network graphs running under X11 displays. So XRG probably feels more warm and comfortable to me than, say, someone who doesn’t come from a UNIX background. :)

]]> by: Dave Duchene http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/01/20/essential-mac-apps-x-resource-graph/#comment-9947 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:53:02 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2006/01/20/essential-mac-apps-x-resource-graph/#comment-9947 This looks really nice, but a little heavy on the screen real-estate. If you haven't seen it already, you might want to check out Alex Harper's excellent Menu Meters, which puts everything into the menu bar: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ This looks really nice, but a little heavy on the screen real-estate. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to check out Alex Harper’s excellent Menu Meters, which puts everything into the menu bar:

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

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