show Energy Saver in the menu bar

[Zammy-Sam]

I would love to have an icon on the menu bar allowing me to switch between the different Energy saver modes, such as Highest Performance, longest battery life. It is really bothering me to open System Preferences -> Enery saver.
I thought of something similar like the Display..
Any tools or other way to do so?

tnx!

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Just 2 views? Oh come on, guys! This could be sooooooooooo interesting for all apple book owners...

 

[DeltaMac]

I would love to have an icon on the menu bar allowing me to switch between the different Energy saver modes, such as Highest Performance, longest battery life. It is really bothering me to open System Preferences -> Enery saver.
I thought of something similar like the Display..
Any tools or other way to do so?

tnx!

You could make an alias for the pref pane (straight from the /System/Library/PreferencePanes folder (create an alias for EnergySaver.prefPane), and put the alias in some convenient place. Not exactly a menu item, but just a double-click away, or add to your sidebar for a single click access.

 

[fryke]

Is Energy Saver scriptable? Maybe someone could write something...

 

[iMan]

That would be a good feature to have, it could be in the apple menu as location is

Viktor

 

[Zammy-Sam]

You could make an alias for the pref pane (straight from the /System/Library/PreferencePanes folder (create an alias for EnergySaver.prefPane), and put the alias in some convenient place. Not exactly a menu item, but just a double-click away, or add to your sidebar for a single click access.

tnx for the reply DeltaMac! I thought of this. But not really what I wanted. Still way too many clicks if you ask me. (I must be darn lazy, huh?)
Basically the idea was to have a roll-down menu-icon showing me those 4 or 5 Energy Saver modes. Something like the resolutions from the Display icon.
I will ask the Apple Script guru over here, if I can script Energy Saver. Tnx for the idea, Fryke.

 

[powermac]

I can't remember where, I think there is a folder with extra menu icons, that are not installed by default, not sure if energy saver is one of them. Try MACOSX hints.com.

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Checked on macosxhints.com, but nothing found.
Still have to ask, if apple script can help in this case.
tnx powermac!

 

[bobw]

This may help;

http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Freeloader_Friday_Download_of_the_Week/print/125

The Battery.menu is here;

system>library>coreservices>menu extras

If you want to use any of the extras in that folder, just double click on them and they'll go to the Menu Bar.

For help with a script, try here;

http://bbs.applescript.net/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl

 

[Zammy-Sam]

tnx Bob!
I tried MenuPrefs, but that wasn't what I was looking for.
And to be honest: guess I am too stupid for this apple script stuff. Have no clue how to work it out.
Was hoping one could simply tell me to install this and that tool and that would be it. Guess it is much more complicated...

 

[bobw]

Sam

Go to this forum and post this;

http://bbs.applescript.net/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl

A lot of script gurus there that will write a script for you if it's possible.