GoblinMenu Bar
Menu Bar
Goblin lives in your menu bar. These pages explain what the figures there can show, the panel that drops down from them, saving your favorite setups as presets, and the keyboard shortcuts that open it all.
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Common tasks
- Change a keyboard shortcutKeyboard shortcuts
- Choose a style for the menu bar itemThe menu bar item
- Get a hidden menu bar item backThe menu bar item
- Drop files on the menu bar to choose a toolDrop files on Goblin
- Switch the menu bar to a different lookMenu bar presets
- Rearrange or hide the tiles on the panel's OverviewThe menu bar panel
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The menu bar itemChoose how Goblin looks in your menu bar, from a plain icon to a row of live figures with graphs, colors and labels, what every symbol means, and what to do when the item is hidden.Drop files on GoblinComing in the next updateDrag files to Goblin’s menu bar icon to see tools for that selection, convert images, work with PDFs and archives, or cancel without changing the originals.Separate menu bar itemsSplit your figures into up to six menu bar items of their own, each with its own dropdown tab, and arrange them the way you like.Automatic figuresLet figures join the menu bar only while something is unusual, such as a long CPU spike, a big download or a low battery, and leave once it settles.Menu bar presetsSwitch your whole menu bar look in one click with a built-in or saved preset, have it change by itself on battery or with a display, and share setups as files.The menu bar panelThe panel that drops down from Goblin's menu bar item, tab by tab and card by card, plus how to arrange, resize and color it, its keyboard keys and the dropdowns that open under it.Alert dropdownsNew in Goblin 1.1The dropdowns that open by themselves from Goblin's menu bar item when an app stops responding, memory runs short, your Trash gets big, a shortcut clashes or you trash an app.Keyboard shortcutsOpen Goblin's panel, its window, any tab, the Network Monitor, Keep Awake or the clipboard from any app with a global keyboard shortcut, and the keys inside Goblin.