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Status Bar in iTerm2

April 7, 2020 by Rob Bazinet Leave a Comment

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I’m a big fan of iTerm2. I’ve used it since it’s inception and haven’t looked back. Even after all of this time I still discover features I didn’t know existed, mainly because I wasn’t looking for them.

I recently discovered you can have a status bar at the top of the terminal window with various stats and data points. My status bar is simple at the moment; containing system CPU usage, memory usage and disk throughput.

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How did you do that?

Adding the status bar is pretty simple. Go to iTerm2 -> Profiles -> Session:

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Check the box for Status bar enabled and then configure the status bar by clicking the Configure Status Bar button.

There are a bunch of options here so I think it’s worth playing around with how the terminal looks. There is even an option to run a script, which opens up many possibilities. Simply drag-and-drop the component you want to have in your status bar. Select a component you made active and you can customize it by the Configure Component button.

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If anyone sets this up and adds calls to scripts, I’d love to hear how you use this feature or how you get creative with other features.

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