SidebarMonitor 1.5.6 — the tab stays collapsed across RDP

The first release since 1.5.4. A 1.5.5 was built but never published, so its changes ship here too — if you are on 1.5.4, everything below is new to you.

Fixed

The collapsed panel no longer reopens itself when a remote desktop session connects or disconnects. It used to come back open and save that as your choice, as if you had clicked the tab. The tab reacted to any mouse release over it, wherever the button had gone down, and it sits on the screen edge — exactly where the cursor ends up when the desktop is resized under it. A click is now a press and a release on the tab. The minimise button had the same flaw and is fixed the same way.

One missed sensor reading no longer blanks the CPU chart. The chart could go empty with NaN % on its axis for a while. A tick with no reading now holds the previous value instead of poisoning the whole window.

The automatic install actually installs. It now asks for elevation properly: one UAC prompt, or none where elevation is silent. Declining the prompt is remembered as a cancel and not retried on its own.

The CPU percentage is readable over the per-core graph — it sits on a dark backing instead of fighting 16 coloured lines.

A process keeps one colour everywhere. claude, claude.exe and chrome ×42 used to land on different colours depending on where they appeared.

Added

• A separate palette for the per-core chart (Settings → CPU → Colores de la gráfica), defaulting to the same palette as the bars.
• The total CPU graph can take the heaviest process's colour instead of fixed blue, to match the per-core bars. Off by default.

Install

SidebarMonitor-1.5.6.msi is the full build (AMD sensor binaries bundled, works offline). SidebarMonitor-lite-1.5.6.msi bundles none of AMD's binaries and uses the AMD SDK you install yourself. Settings, layout and history are kept across the upgrade.

Some antivirus products flag AdlxShim.dll as a false positive — see #2.