Tray icon & bars

PaceBar lives in your menu bar (macOS) or system tray (Windows). The icon is more than a launcher — it can show your most important usage right in the tray.

Primary progress bars

A plugin can mark one of its progress lines as primary. PaceBar renders that bar directly into the tray icon, so you can see usage without opening the panel.

• Up to four enabled providers with a primary bar are drawn, in your chosen order.
• Only progress lines can be primary; the flag is ignored on other line types.
• Before the first refresh, a bar shows as an empty track.

Reorder providers in Settings to control which four appear and in what order. See plugin schema for how a plugin declares its primary line.

Click behavior

• Left-click toggles the panel open/closed.
• Right-click opens the context menu.

Context menu

The tray menu gives quick access to:

• Show Stats — open the panel
• Go to Settings
• Debug Level — set log verbosity (see Logging)
• About PaceBar
• Quit

Icons

PaceBar uses a template (monochrome) icon on macOS so it adapts to light/dark menu bars, and a full-color icon on Windows.