Hello,
iStat menus is a wonderful little addition to me computer, but I've run into an annoying bug a few times that I haven't seen posted. I do most of my work from a wacom tablet, and I've noticed that, very occasionally, I'll click on one of the menu items (it just happened with the cpu tab, not sure about the rest) and it will refuse to disappear. Every time I click away from it, the menu item re-"clicks" itself, and flashes off-on. To be clear, it's not just that the menu stays displayed once I've clicked off of it, it's that it actually stops me from doing anything else on the computer. I can get away from it, but it's not easy. Usually some mash clicking of mouse and wacom pen will do it, but it does hang for at least 10-20 seconds before going away. Afterward, everything will continue to run smoothly. Running 10.5.2 on a 2x2ghz Mac Pro.
Thanks!
Rob

I want to confirm that this is indeed a bug. I also use a Wacom tablet and I've been experiencing the same symptoms as mentioned above, so I assume it has some relation to the tablet driver. For me, it happens most often with the memory menu item, but that's probably because I click that one more than any other. Besides this minor annoyance, iStat menus has worked great for me. Many thanks to the developer for creating and maintaining a useful, reliable, and aesthetically pleasing freeware app! Keep up the great work.

Would it be possible in a future release to add an option to display both the percentage or used/free in addition to the activity arrows on the hard drive indicator? I want to know how full my HD is without losing track of what's happening on it.

I haven't read this whole post, so pls forgive if its already been asked.

I find the little Calender Icon annoying, and it would be good to be able to not have it? Is this possible?

When iStat Menus loads, I'm seeing this in console:

2008-06-24 20:10:13.535 SystemUIServer[192]
MenuCracker
see SourceForge.net: MenuCracker
MenuCracker is now loaded. Ready to accept new menus. Ignore the failure message that follow.
2008-06-24 20:10:14.109 SystemUIServer[192] failed to load Menu Extra: NSBundle </Users/dan/Library/Application Support/iStat menus/Extras/MenuCracker.menu> (loaded)
2008-06-24 20:10:21.669 SystemUIServer[192] MenuCracker: Loading 'iStatMenusDateAndTimes'.
2008-06-24 20:10:24.860 SystemUIServer[192] MenuCracker: Loading 'iStatMenusCPU'.
2008-06-24 20:10:26.839 SystemUIServer[192] MenuCracker: Loading 'iStatMenusNetwork'.
Jun 24 20:10:28 dans-smurftower /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: CGGStackRestore: gstack underflow.

The stack underflow should NOT be happening...

I really like your program and much prefer your calendar to others however I'm so use to having it at the far right side. I would be nice to be able to reorder your menus. I don't have a problem with the icon either, again I'm use to it.

I believe you can re-order them by Cmd-Dragging.

It's also the first thing mentioned in the iStat menus manual:
iSlayer.com

I am using Airport on my MacBook running 10.5.4 (though it has been happening in all versions of Leopard).

My problem is that the Network Graph will stop showing any activity. The activity will be occurring (the drop down menu shows the correct kbs in and out) but the graph is flat lined.

I have to turn that part of iStat menus on and off and then it pops back to life. Unfortunately, it now is no longer in the same position on the menubar.

I have to do this at least once every day or so.

Am I the only one?

Since Comcast here has officially announced bandwidth caps, I'd like to put in a request for cumulative bandwidth monitoring across system restarts, with the ability for it to automatically reset on a user-specified date of the month. I'd also like to see some additional statistics (average daily bandwidth up/down/down+up, amount up/down/down+up remaining in monthly allowance), but they require cumulative bandwidth tracking first.

That is a good idea, except that I stream music wirelessly to several AirPort Express base stations (this ends up being in the 10s to 100s of GBs per month for me), so it would be important to differentiate that local traffic from traffic coming and going through my cable modem. In addition, how would one differentiate between wireless data at home and wireless data sent and received when not at home.

Sounds like a tough thing to do.

Shouldn't be that big of a deal, since your wireless LAN routers should all be running on the same subnet (like 10.x.x.x). One would only worry about packets directed to, or originating from IP addresses outside the subnet.

I think it's unlikely we'll add the kind of features required for proper ISP usage monitoring soon. Not ruling it out for the future, but chances are we'll never be as accurate as viewing the usage from your account info on your ISP's web site.

Seems that Mac OS X 10.5.5 has mucked up iStat Menus in at least one particular way: the "Show top 5 processes" for CPU and Memory no longer works. There's just a empty space where the processes should be showing when I click on the CPU or Memory menu items. Everything worked fine in 10.5.4. Other users please confirm!

Having looked through this forum I don't see an answer to what should be simple.

Is there a way to install iStat Menus for all users on a system? I tried to move the preferences bundel to /Library/Preferences, I moved the Application Support folder to the global /Library/Application Support. I edited the launchd.plist to launch the correct process server which is running. But the preferences gives me a blank or refuses to load.

Mac OSX 10.5.5 and Mac OSX 10.4.11