Adding username to menu bar

Hi guys

Would anyone know how to add the current person who is logged on username or full name eg bloggsj or joe bloggs to the menu bar say near the clock, and for the name to be always there when any application is running? Any suggestions would be great, thanks in advance

System Prefs, in Accounts, then in Login Options. Tick the 'Enable fast user switching' checkbox.

System Preferences
Accounts
click Lock icon at the bottom and Authenticate
Login Options
Check "Enable fast user switching"

The "Fast User Switching" menu extra will appear.

Hold Command ("Apple key") and click it to move it left or right.

You need to have more than 1 user on the System...

System Prefs >>> Accounts >>> Login Options (may need to "unlock/Authenticate) >>> Check Enable Fast User Switching >>> Then select "Name" or "Short Name" or "Icon" in the drop down list.


EDIT: LOL!!! great job EVERYONE!!!

It's probably a lot of wasted overhead to enable FUS just put your name in the menu bar. Kinda like using dashboard for just the calculator. Boy us Mac folk love RAM!

Thanks guys

Very good solution exactly the format I want But I don't want to turn fast switching on, is their anyway of having that exact format without the fast switching.
Thanks heaps

if you tell people the answer 3 times does it help....?

This has helped me out. I have been looking for a way to lock my Mac when I walk away with out logging all the way out.

Thanks!

Smurfy, that was a very unsmurflike comment.

He's looking for a better solution. And I agree that there should be a better one. Or possibly not. But turning on FUS for a simple icon/badge is silly.

Perhaps it would be better to edit the icon resource of spotlight =)

giulio said:

Smurfy, that was a very unsmurflike comment.

He's looking for a better solution. And I agree that there should be a better one. Or possibly not. But turning on FUS for a simple icon/badge is silly.

Perhaps it would be better to edit the icon resource of spotlight =)

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thanks, could you please give more info in the editting of the icon resouce of spotlight?

Thanks heaps

say what!

RIDE said:

You need to have more than 1 user on the System...

System Prefs >>> Accounts >>> Login Options (may need to "unlock/Authenticate) >>> Check Enable Fast User Switching >>> Then select "Name" or "Short Name" or "Icon" in the drop down list.


EDIT: LOL!!! great job EVERYONE!!!

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I don't have more than 1 user and I could do it.

beardie, I can't help you out with that. You should start a new thread here posing that question. I don't know where the icon resource resides, what format it is, etc.