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An animated cat bar widget whose pace reflects CPU usage: sleeps idle, walks under light load, runs under heavy load. Color follows the theme by default or a pinned custom color. Cat artwork traced from the MIT-licensed CatWalk plasmoid into a custom icon font.
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Cat
An animated cat that lives in your bar. It sleeps when your CPU is idle, walks as load picks up, and breaks into a full sprint under heavy load — colored to match your theme, or any color you pick.
Plugin
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| ID | dotnetrob/cat |
| Entries | Bar widget: cat |
Usage
Add the "Cat" widget to any bar from Settings → Bar → Add Widget. Click the widget to show a notification with the current CPU percentage.
Settings
| Setting | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
cat_size |
int |
24 |
Sprite size in the bar, in pixels (12–48). |
show_cpu_percent |
bool |
false |
Display the CPU percentage next to the cat. |
walk_threshold |
int |
15 |
CPU percentage at which the cat wakes up and starts walking. |
run_threshold |
int |
60 |
CPU percentage at which the cat breaks into a run. |
poll_interval |
int |
2 |
How often to sample CPU usage, in seconds. |
cat_color_mode |
select |
theme |
theme colors the cat with the palette's secondary role and tracks theme changes; custom uses the color below. |
cat_color |
color |
#E8A24C |
Used when cat_color_mode is custom. |
Notes
Every poll_interval seconds the widget reads /proc/stat to compute CPU
usage — no other files are read or written, nothing is downloaded, and no
processes are spawned. The cat's shape comes from a small custom icon font
(fonts/catwalk2.otf) traced from the MIT-licensed
CatWalk plasmoid by Driglu4it, which lets
it be recolored like normal bar text instead of a fixed-color image.