# Universal Ticker Help

## Setup

First, open the Ticker preferences. Here you may decide to either put the ticker into the menu bar or display it in a separate window.

Ticker Preferences

## Resizing the Ticker

By increasing the Update Frequency you get smoother animation but at the expense of higher CPU usage.

The Ticker Width slider is used to change the width of the ticker when displayed in the menu bar only.
Should you opt to use a separate window for the ticker, you can move and resize it by holding down the command key (⌘) and dragging the window or the window's edges with your mouse.

Use the Appearance preferences to modify the look of your ticker. There is a variety of options for the background and you may select any font installed on your system to display the scolling text.

Appearance Preferences

More options can be found in the General preferences.

General Preferences

The Universal Ticker Growl Plug-In will allow you to route Growl notifications to your ticker. To install it just hit the Install Plug-In button. See the Growl documentation for more information about configuring notifications.

## Plug-Ins

Universal Ticker comes with plug-ins that let you display a wide variety of information.

To choose wich plug-ins to use, open the Plug-Ins preferences.

Plug-Ins Preferences

Clicking will show some basic information about the plug-in.
opens the plug-in's help page.
A indicates that you need to be online to access help.

(You can also access help from inside each plug-in's preferences panel by clicking the button.)

Use Revert Plug-In Preferences if a plug-in misbehaves and you want to get its default settings back. This will not affect other plug-ins but it may destroy previously saved data for the selected plug-in.

To configure a particular plug-in choose Show All. Clicking the plug-in's icon will open the corresponding preferences panel.