This will create an independent app which runs outside of System Preferences. For my development workflow, this meant switching to ARM64. While the fact that the new ports on the 2021 Macbook Pro are great, the biggest hangup was switching from an AMD64 to an ARM64 CPU.
#Installing menumeters upgrade
To hack:Ĭlone the git repo, open MenuMeters.xcodeproj, and build the target MenuMeters. I recently got a new 2021 Apple Macbook Pro 14 with the M1 Pro processor (quite a nice upgrade from my previous 2014 Macbook Pro). This is due to an increasing amount of security features imposed by Apple on preference panes running within System Preferences, which made it too cumbersome to develop MenuMeters as a preference pane. More recently, starting from Catalina, MenuMeters was changed from a preference pane within System Preferences to an independent app. Since then, many people contributed pull requests, most of which have been incorporated. I'm making here a minimal modification so that it runs as a faceless app, putting NSStatusItem's instead of NSMenuExtra's. The original version does not work on El Capitan and later, due to the fact that SystemUIServer doesn't load Menu Extras not signed by Apple any longer. It's a great utility originally developed at. If you'd like your version mentioned here, please tell me at the issues page.
which has new features in the CPU meter, etc.There are also further forks of my version of MenuMeters, which implement more features. If you run Mojave and higher, is another menubar monitor which has a more modern look and feel, often offers more capability, and is maintained actively. Other versions & related open source softwares: The detailed installation instruction is given in the former. If you just want to use it, please go to or and download the binary. My fork of MenuMeters for El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur.