Ever since I upgraded the OS to 10.8, the istat Pro widget on the dashboard doesn't list anything but a stack of empty white squares under "Processes". Is this a known bug?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Have you asked the developer of the iStat Pro widget?
I also noticed this recently. I'm running 10.8.3. I seem to recall it working relatively recently (definitely on 10.8).
Thanks!
Thanks CT! Here are the steps from the macrumors.com link:
Steps:
1. Locate your widget, it will be under /Library/Widgets or ~/Library/Widgets
2. Right click it and select: "Show Package Contents"
3. Open Wide.js or Tall.js file in some editor (Wide is for horizontal view, Tall for vertical)
4. Locate the line
| WideSkinController.prototype.updateProcesses = function(){ var _self = this; var exclude = ""; if(p.v("processes_excludewidgets") == 'on') exclude = " grep -v DashboardClient | "; widget.system('ps -arcwwwxo "pid %cpu command" | egrep "PID|$1" | grep -v grep | ' + exclude + ' head -7 | tail -6 | awk \'{print "<pid>"$1"</pid><cpu>"$2"</cpu><name>"$3,$4,$5"</name></item>"}\'', function(data){ _self.updateProcessesOut(data);}); else widget.system('ps -amcwwwxo "pid rss command" | egrep "PID|$1" | grep -v grep | ' + exclude + ' head -7 | tail -6 | awk \'{print "<pid>"$1"</pid><cpu>"$2"</cpu><name>"$3,$4,$5"</name></item>"}\'', function(data){ _self.updateProcessesOut(data);}); } |
Change "PID|$1" to "PID| $1" (Add space before $ sign)
5. Save the changes
6. remove widget and re-add it Dashboard, and it should be fixed
These are the exact steps I've used to get iStat Pro to show Processes.
One thing to also note after saving the changes, compress the updated widget so you don't have to do these steps in the future. Simply double click the newly created .zip file and install the updated widget.
Thank you. Has been bugging me for a while and found this when I Googled. Working perfectly once again!
istat Pro "Processes" doesn't work since upgrade to OS X 10.8.2
