November 24, 2003
Love MEE!

Not quite a haxie. But I present the Menu Extra Enabler 1.0.1 Beta. There is nothing super about it.

Please test it. No matter what version of Mac OS X you are running.

Version 1.0.1

  • This is not a bug fix. Panther introduces a Keychain Access menu extra (Open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access then open the View menu and choose "Show Status in Menu Bar"). Oddly enough, even though this menu extra comes from Apple is not "Apple approved" so it installs something called Enable.menu that enables the Keychain menu extra but disables all third party menu extras the next time the user logs in or reboots. MEE now prevents Enable.menu from loading (but does not prevent the Keychain Access Menu Extra from loading). In other words:
  • Fixes incompatibility with Enable.menu

Digg This!

 Posted by rosyna at November 24, 2003 03:44 PM

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Installed it and tested it. It works for me, but it was also working before I installed the new version on my machine. I have the following items in my menu starting from the right corner; CeePeeYou, Clock, Input Mode, Battery, Display, Sound, KeyChain Access, Airport, iChat, Stuffit, IC-Switch and Konfabulator. It's been working fine for me in both Jaguar and Panther...

:)

ps. I've got the following entries in my Console log at login;

2003-11-24 16:09:13.858 SystemUIServer[1023] Normally CPUMenuExtra would not have been loaded as a Menu Extra.
2003-11-24 16:09:25.777 SystemUIServer[1023] Normally AppleKeychainExtra would not have been loaded as a Menu Extra.
2003-11-24 16:09:33.774 SystemUIServer[1023] Normally MagicMenu would not have been loaded as a Menu Extra.

This is basically the same thing that I had before installing the new mee-101 beta...

Posted by: Richard Hess on November 24, 2003 4:33 PM

On 10.3.1...

I have the Key Chain Access menu extra turned on. I had also installed CeePeeYou, which would not start automatically when I logged in. This new version of MEE seems to have 'fixed' that and everything is working as it should again.

Oddly enough, WeatherPop Advanced always loaded OK where CeePeeYou would not. Maybe the difference is that WeatherPop is listed as a startup item and CeePeeYou isn't.

Thanks!

Posted by: Ralph Jacobs on November 24, 2003 8:01 PM

WeatherPop is its own application, not a menu extra.

Posted by: Inspired on November 25, 2003 4:03 AM

WeatherPop does have a menu extra embedded into it's resources though...

Posted by: bob on November 25, 2003 7:02 AM

Keychain Access menu existed before Panther. Don't know if it behaved differently in Jaguar.

Posted by: Visa on November 25, 2003 11:18 AM

Well, CeePeeYou survived a logout/login, but not a reboot. Between CeePeeYou and Keychain Access, I would rather have CeePeeYou. If I take Keychain off, will it stop killing CeePeeYou?

As it stands currently, I'm working the same with the MEE 1.0.1b as I was with the previous version (CeePeeYou won't load in Panther). Let me know what information would be useful for debugging purposes if you need it.

Posted by: Ralph Jacobs on November 25, 2003 2:57 PM

Ralph,

Where do you have CeePeeYou installed in the menubar? On my machine, I've got CeePeeYou installed as the very first item on the far right side of the menu bar (see my previous post if you want to know everything that I'm using). If you've got CeePeeYou installed to the left of KeyChain Access, try moving it to the other side and see if this helps...

:)

Posted by: Richard Hess on November 25, 2003 3:50 PM

forgot to mention that I'm running Panther... 10.3.1

Posted by: Richard Hess on November 25, 2003 4:00 PM

I have installed xounds 2.1 beta and it worked great (panther 10.3.1) till a certain point of kernel panic I am not able to reconstruct. After that and various deinstallations and new installations no more sound. Only if I create a new user, everything is fine again. Even the september version xounds 2.0 works great. I created several testusers and always the same positive resault. Only the one i installed it first, will not work. I suppose it has something to do with this specific user library, baut I dont know what file/ folder oit could be. Who can help a soundaddictive macuser (since 1984)?? Thanx!

Posted by: Michael on November 26, 2003 3:46 AM

Hi rosyna,

How was Japan, by the way?

nobey

Posted by: on November 26, 2003 8:12 AM

I had WeatherPop, CeePeeYou, Keychain, Airport, Volume, Battery, Clock (from left to right). I disabled Keychain and rebooted. Weatherpop and CeePeeYou didn't load and there were still messages in the console log about Keychain and enable.menu. So I reinstalled the new MEE and rebooted once again. Now everything is showing up that I want. The Keychain menu extra is still turned off.

I can find a lot of documentation on StartupItems, but very little on LoginItems and their start order. It would be nice to know what fires when and which bundle loads in which order beyond what is listed in the GUI. The problem I was having seemed to be an start order type of problem. Anyway, the reinstall seems to have cleared up the problems.

Posted by: Ralph Jacobs on November 26, 2003 9:50 AM
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