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BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

385 points by trueduke 11y ago

seanwilson 11y ago
This is a great idea; looks really practical and easy to extend. Is there a list of more plugins anywhere? There's only a few in the repo: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/tree/master/Plugins https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/tree/master/Plugins
benwills 11y ago
I won't be able to get to tinkering with this for a couple weeks, but if it does what it says it does, I've been wanting almost exactly this for a very long time. Thanks for getting it out there.
nikisweeting 11y ago
Looks very similar to: http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/ http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/ (http://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/PlatypusDocumentation.html#235 http://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/PlatypusDocumentation.h...) BitBar focuses on just the Menu Bar use case though, and does a more polished job than Platypus.
- voaie 11y ago
  See also https://github.com/HackPlan/quark-shell-mac https://github.com/HackPlan/quark-shell-mac :)
- jamessb 11y ago
  Also AnyBar, which displays a coloured dot in the menu bar: https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar Or TextBar, which is a $3 utility: http://www.richsomerfield.com/apps/ http://www.richsomerfield.com/apps/
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sciencerobot 11y ago
Awesome tool! I've always wanted to make menubar apps but never wanted to learn Xcode+ObjectiveC. Related: Is there no simple way to get the current temperature for location based off of GeoIP using `curl`? I had to use this monstrosity to get the current temperature: #!/bin/bash export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' ansiweather -a off -l 'San Francisco' \ | cut -d '>' -f 2 \ | cut -d '-' -f1 \ | awk '{ print $1 $2 }' \ | tr -d 'C'
- grahamg 11y ago
  Not curl, but this script may be a worthy replacement? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grahamg/Practice/master/weather_pexpect.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grahamg/Practice/master/we...
- taylorzane 11y ago
  You could use OpenWeatherMap's API. Something like this is pure (remove the `&units=imperial` if you prefer Celsius): curl -s "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?zip=$(curl -s ipinfo.io/postal),us&appid=2de143494c0b295cca9337e1e96b00e0&units=imperial" \ | sed -e 's/$.*$temp":$[0-9.]*$,$.*$/\2/' or you could replace the `sed` pipe with a call to `jq`: curl really_long_url | jq '.main.temp'
  - mkagenius 11y ago
    > remove the `&units=imperial` if you prefer Celsius That would get you Kelvin, use `&units=metric` for Celsius
    - taylorzane 11y ago
      Good call! I completely forgot the default units were in Kelvin, and not Celsius.
dmsimard 11y ago
Sweet. Does anyone happen to know if there is something similar for gnome-based environments on Linux ?
- vanous 11y ago
  I have been using https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/437/mylauncher/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/437/mylauncher/ to execute shell commands, to see output I have just found this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/912/command-output/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/912/command-output/, but I haven't tried it yet.
- ghoul2 11y ago
  I wrote one for the Cinnamon Desktop a while ago: https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136 http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136
- tbrock 11y ago
  Conky is great for this sort of thing.
  - rovr138 11y ago
    I haven't used conky in a while, but can you interact with it now? I was checking the plugins and some of them allow clicking on items in the dropdown and having an action execute. The clipboard history now has code for this.
soheil 11y ago
In case you made the mistake of choosing a directory with thousands of files as the plugin directory and BitBar getting stuck forever, do this from terminal to reset it: defaults delete com.matryer.BitBar
- iaw 11y ago
  This should be somewhere in the documentation if it's not already.
  - soheil 11y ago
    Done https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/33/files https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/33/files
    - mintplant 11y ago
      It would be good to sumbit a ticket for the original hanging bug as well, if one doesn't already exist.
      - matryer 11y ago
        Would this involve a timeout or maximum plugin count? Something like that? Please do open a ticket.
        mikeash 11y ago
        Ideally, the scanning process would be asynchronous so that the program would remain responsive and you could retarget it within the app.
zepolen 11y ago
I've been using https://github.com/jaredks/rumps https://github.com/jaredks/rumps for this sort of thing.
- subnaught 11y ago
  Another vote for rumps.
evanb 11y ago
This reminds me of geektool http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ which seems like it may have been abandoned? It was one of my favorite tools.
- arm 11y ago
  It doesn’t seem to be abandoned. The latest version of Geektool (3.1.3) seems to have been released in October and even has support for El Capitan¹. ―――――― ¹ — http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/download.php http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/download.php
- provemewrong 11y ago
  A bit more modern and customizable alternative is Übersicht. Widgets are created in HTML5 and CoffeScript. http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/ http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/
  - binaryapparatus 11y ago
    Last time I checked this tool they didn't support multiple monitors. Is that fixed now? Also big minus was menu bar icon, such tools don't need one.
    - provemewrong 11y ago
      I only use one though, so I can't say for sure but judging by their blog posts they offer to choose which monitor Ubersicht runs on, but I believe it can't be displayed on multiple monitors at the same time. That's true about the menubar icon, but it doesn't bother me.
jtokoph 11y ago
As my way of playing around with what BitBar can do, I created a Spotify script. Until it's merged you can check out the pull request: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/34 https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/34 Shows current track name and artist in menu bar. Shows track/artist/album in dropdown along with play/pause/next/previous buttons. Raw script here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jtokoph/bitbar/jtokoph-spotify/Plugins/Media/spotify.10s.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jtokoph/bitbar/jtokoph-spo...
- onion2k 11y ago
  Very nice, but none of the multiline bits after the pipe works for me (might be Bitbar rather than your script though). EDIT: The reason for this is the version installed by brew is 1.2, and that bug was fixed in 1.3.1.
  - matryer 11y ago
    Can someone help on this? https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/64 https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/64
    - onion2k 11y ago
      That's fixed it ... just needed to update brew and do a "brew cask install --force bitbar" to update. Now it's working. Cheers!
- jtokoph 11y ago
  Hijacking my own post. Been having lots of fun playing with BitBar. Just finished a clipboard history plugin: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/47 https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/47
chinchang 11y ago
Amazing!!!!! Thanks for this :)
daviddoran 11y ago
Very clever approach, I like the simple text-based format.
luke-stanley 11y ago
Anyone know how to do similar for Xfce or LXDE?
- thwarted 11y ago
  XFCE has an applet called "generic monitor" that can be used for this.
  - pentlander 11y ago
    There's also a lightweight menu bar for X11 systems called bar. https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar
  - luke-stanley 11y ago
    Awesome, now I can run quick Python commands and see the output in my XFCE panel: sudo apt-get install xfce4-genmon-plugin Right click panel > Panel > Add New Items > Generic Monitor > Add Right click "(genmon)XXX", > Properties Try this command: python -c "import time;print time.time()" You might set it to run every 10 seconds. You could get results from a webpage or all kinds of things. It supports images, tooltips, progress bar, buttons... This is great! Thanks!
javajosh 11y ago
Could also use Hammerspoon (http://www.hammerspoon.org/ http://www.hammerspoon.org/) for this. It uses Lua but you can invoke processes and modify the toolbar. In addition you can hook into keystrokes, do window management, and all kinds of stuff.
- cmsj 11y ago
  and the upcoming 0.9.44 release will be even more flexible for this sort of use, because the process invoking stuff (http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.task.html http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.task.html ) will support processes that run indefinitely, so you could do crazy stuff like have a menubar item that shows the most recent line of a log file, or whatever you want :)
- hipjiveguy 11y ago
  Yeah hammerspoon rocks and is very lightweight and easy to use... This simple example shows how powerful it is for automation: http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar -- Creating a simple menubar item -- Lots of Mac utilities place a small icon in the system menubar to display their -- status and let you interact with them. We're going to use two of Hammerspoon's -- extensions to whip up a very simple replacement for the popular utility Caffeine. local caffeine = hs.menubar.new() function setCaffeineDisplay(state) if state then caffeine:setTitle("AWAKE") else caffeine:setTitle("SLEEPY") end end function caffeineClicked() setCaffeineDisplay(hs.caffeinate.toggle("displayIdle")) end if caffeine then caffeine:setClickCallback(caffeineClicked) setCaffeineDisplay(hs.caffeinate.get("displayIdle")) end
pinkunicorn 11y ago
This is fantastic, I wanted to donate - but do not have a Bitcoin wallet. Any other options?
- matryer 11y ago
  You're too kind - these words are enough. But if you insist, I do need some socks :) http://amzn.to/1Pd9yOt http://amzn.to/1Pd9yOt
ghoul2 11y ago
I made something quite similar a while ago for Linux (Cinnamon). https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136 http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136
daemonk 11y ago
Nice. There are already a couple of programs that do this I think, but maybe use AWS CLI to write a plugin for monitoring ec2 instances' status.
djhworld 11y ago
I just wrote a plugin to allow me to set my Network location (we sit behind a corporate proxy at work) AND my bash proxy settings at the same time. So when I'm not in the office switching to my "home" profile is just a menu click away. This has been a long standing dream of mine to automate - so thanks! EDIT: also it works with emojis, which is handy, here's a screenshot http://imgur.com/CVxchnI http://imgur.com/CVxchnI
- daturkel 11y ago
  I hope you submitted a pull request!
  - djhworld 11y ago
    Sadly it's too bespoke to release, I had all the profile switching scripts written already and have been using them for a few years now. On top of updating environment variables with proxy settings etc, they also update a bunch of configuration files for maven, ssh, stunnel etc via symlinks All this bitbar thing does is call those existing scripts, very simple, but saves me a) wondering what profile I have enabled (now in the menubar) b) opening a terminal and typing "update-env (work|home)" (one click switch)
dannyrosen 11y ago
Anyone know of a solution like this for KDE Plasma?
enedil 11y ago
And nobody is restricted to shell scripts. Any program that writes to STDOUT will work.
reacweb 11y ago
Very nice. Does anyone have entry points to do the same with gnome 3 ?
- vanous 11y ago
  See this two comments of mine. Perhaps time to study these and make a nice universal, working extension. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10843704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10843704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10841525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10841525
vanous 11y ago
The issue i can see in gnome-shell (on linux) implementations is that long running script can block the UI. Async script execution, on the other hand, exhaust open file resources due to non closed file descriptors. Do OSX tools like this suffer the same problem?
daturkel 11y ago
This is awesome. Can't wait to see more plugins.
- matryer 11y ago
  Me too :) We didn't have to wait long - check these out: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins Some of them are like full apps in their own right.
zlalanne 11y ago
For i3, i3blocks does the same job: https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks
- rasur 11y ago
  Why thank you, I use i3 (i love it) and this will be very useful.
vowelless 11y ago
Anyway I can hook up custom keyboard shortcuts to BitBar scripts?
- matryer 11y ago
  Nice idea - you should raise an issue: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues
rrggrr 11y ago
I almost bought TextBar (www.richsomerfield.com). You for saved me $2.99 and 5 minutes of time. I'm disproportionately grateful for this.
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lambrettaman 11y ago
I'm missing something. I have it installed. My plugins are executable. I've Reset. I've changed the folder. But BitBar says "No Plugins Found"
- lambrettaman 11y ago
  Must be a Mac thing. I downloaded the .zip file and the plugins work.
mofle 11y ago
I made a Node.js module with a nice API for it to ease plugin creation: https://github.com/sindresorhus/bitbar https://github.com/sindresorhus/bitbar

385 points by trueduke 11y ago

This is a great idea; looks really practical and easy to extend. Is there a list of more plugins anywhere? There's only a few in the repo: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/tree/master/Plugins https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/tree/master/Plugins

benwills 11y ago

I won't be able to get to tinkering with this for a couple weeks, but if it does what it says it does, I've been wanting almost exactly this for a very long time. Thanks for getting it out there.

nikisweeting 11y ago

Looks very similar to: http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/ http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/ (http://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/PlatypusDocumentation.html#235 http://sveinbjorn.org/files/manpages/PlatypusDocumentation.h...) BitBar focuses on just the Menu Bar use case though, and does a more polished job than Platypus.

voaie 11y ago
See also https://github.com/HackPlan/quark-shell-mac https://github.com/HackPlan/quark-shell-mac :)
jamessb 11y ago
Also AnyBar, which displays a coloured dot in the menu bar: https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar Or TextBar, which is a $3 utility: http://www.richsomerfield.com/apps/ http://www.richsomerfield.com/apps/

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sciencerobot 11y ago

Awesome tool! I've always wanted to make menubar apps but never wanted to learn Xcode+ObjectiveC. Related: Is there no simple way to get the current temperature for location based off of GeoIP using `curl`? I had to use this monstrosity to get the current temperature: #!/bin/bash export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' ansiweather -a off -l 'San Francisco' \ | cut -d '>' -f 2 \ | cut -d '-' -f1 \ | awk '{ print $1 $2 }' \ | tr -d 'C'

grahamg 11y ago
Not curl, but this script may be a worthy replacement? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grahamg/Practice/master/weather_pexpect.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grahamg/Practice/master/we...
taylorzane 11y ago
You could use OpenWeatherMap's API. Something like this is pure (remove the `&units=imperial` if you prefer Celsius): curl -s "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?zip=$(curl -s ipinfo.io/postal),us&appid=2de143494c0b295cca9337e1e96b00e0&units=imperial" \ | sed -e 's/$.*$temp":$[0-9.]*$,$.*$/\2/' or you could replace the `sed` pipe with a call to `jq`: curl really_long_url | jq '.main.temp'
- mkagenius 11y ago
  > remove the `&units=imperial` if you prefer Celsius That would get you Kelvin, use `&units=metric` for Celsius
  - taylorzane 11y ago
    Good call! I completely forgot the default units were in Kelvin, and not Celsius.

dmsimard 11y ago

Sweet. Does anyone happen to know if there is something similar for gnome-based environments on Linux ?

vanous 11y ago
I have been using https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/437/mylauncher/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/437/mylauncher/ to execute shell commands, to see output I have just found this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/912/command-output/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/912/command-output/, but I haven't tried it yet.
ghoul2 11y ago
I wrote one for the Cinnamon Desktop a while ago: https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136 http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136
tbrock 11y ago
Conky is great for this sort of thing.
- rovr138 11y ago
  I haven't used conky in a while, but can you interact with it now? I was checking the plugins and some of them allow clicking on items in the dropdown and having an action execute. The clipboard history now has code for this.

soheil 11y ago

In case you made the mistake of choosing a directory with thousands of files as the plugin directory and BitBar getting stuck forever, do this from terminal to reset it: defaults delete com.matryer.BitBar

iaw 11y ago
This should be somewhere in the documentation if it's not already.
- soheil 11y ago
  Done https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/33/files https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/33/files
  - mintplant 11y ago
    It would be good to sumbit a ticket for the original hanging bug as well, if one doesn't already exist.
    - matryer 11y ago
      Would this involve a timeout or maximum plugin count? Something like that? Please do open a ticket.
      - mikeash 11y ago
        Ideally, the scanning process would be asynchronous so that the program would remain responsive and you could retarget it within the app.

zepolen 11y ago

I've been using https://github.com/jaredks/rumps https://github.com/jaredks/rumps for this sort of thing.

subnaught 11y ago
Another vote for rumps.

evanb 11y ago

This reminds me of geektool http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ which seems like it may have been abandoned? It was one of my favorite tools.

arm 11y ago
It doesn’t seem to be abandoned. The latest version of Geektool (3.1.3) seems to have been released in October and even has support for El Capitan¹. ―――――― ¹ — http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/download.php http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/download.php
provemewrong 11y ago
A bit more modern and customizable alternative is Übersicht. Widgets are created in HTML5 and CoffeScript. http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/ http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/
- binaryapparatus 11y ago
  Last time I checked this tool they didn't support multiple monitors. Is that fixed now? Also big minus was menu bar icon, such tools don't need one.
  - provemewrong 11y ago
    I only use one though, so I can't say for sure but judging by their blog posts they offer to choose which monitor Ubersicht runs on, but I believe it can't be displayed on multiple monitors at the same time. That's true about the menubar icon, but it doesn't bother me.

jtokoph 11y ago

As my way of playing around with what BitBar can do, I created a Spotify script. Until it's merged you can check out the pull request: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/34 https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/34 Shows current track name and artist in menu bar. Shows track/artist/album in dropdown along with play/pause/next/previous buttons. Raw script here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jtokoph/bitbar/jtokoph-spotify/Plugins/Media/spotify.10s.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jtokoph/bitbar/jtokoph-spo...

onion2k 11y ago
Very nice, but none of the multiline bits after the pipe works for me (might be Bitbar rather than your script though). EDIT: The reason for this is the version installed by brew is 1.2, and that bug was fixed in 1.3.1.
- matryer 11y ago
  Can someone help on this? https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/64 https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/64
  - onion2k 11y ago
    That's fixed it ... just needed to update brew and do a "brew cask install --force bitbar" to update. Now it's working. Cheers!
jtokoph 11y ago
Hijacking my own post. Been having lots of fun playing with BitBar. Just finished a clipboard history plugin: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/47 https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/47

chinchang 11y ago

Amazing!!!!! Thanks for this :)

daviddoran 11y ago

Very clever approach, I like the simple text-based format.

luke-stanley 11y ago

Anyone know how to do similar for Xfce or LXDE?

thwarted 11y ago
XFCE has an applet called "generic monitor" that can be used for this.
- pentlander 11y ago
  There's also a lightweight menu bar for X11 systems called bar. https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar
- luke-stanley 11y ago
  Awesome, now I can run quick Python commands and see the output in my XFCE panel: sudo apt-get install xfce4-genmon-plugin Right click panel > Panel > Add New Items > Generic Monitor > Add Right click "(genmon)XXX", > Properties Try this command: python -c "import time;print time.time()" You might set it to run every 10 seconds. You could get results from a webpage or all kinds of things. It supports images, tooltips, progress bar, buttons... This is great! Thanks!

javajosh 11y ago

Could also use Hammerspoon (http://www.hammerspoon.org/ http://www.hammerspoon.org/) for this. It uses Lua but you can invoke processes and modify the toolbar. In addition you can hook into keystrokes, do window management, and all kinds of stuff.

cmsj 11y ago
and the upcoming 0.9.44 release will be even more flexible for this sort of use, because the process invoking stuff (http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.task.html http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.task.html ) will support processes that run indefinitely, so you could do crazy stuff like have a menubar item that shows the most recent line of a log file, or whatever you want :)
hipjiveguy 11y ago
Yeah hammerspoon rocks and is very lightweight and easy to use... This simple example shows how powerful it is for automation: http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar -- Creating a simple menubar item -- Lots of Mac utilities place a small icon in the system menubar to display their -- status and let you interact with them. We're going to use two of Hammerspoon's -- extensions to whip up a very simple replacement for the popular utility Caffeine. local caffeine = hs.menubar.new() function setCaffeineDisplay(state) if state then caffeine:setTitle("AWAKE") else caffeine:setTitle("SLEEPY") end end function caffeineClicked() setCaffeineDisplay(hs.caffeinate.toggle("displayIdle")) end if caffeine then caffeine:setClickCallback(caffeineClicked) setCaffeineDisplay(hs.caffeinate.get("displayIdle")) end

pinkunicorn 11y ago

This is fantastic, I wanted to donate - but do not have a Bitcoin wallet. Any other options?

matryer 11y ago
You're too kind - these words are enough. But if you insist, I do need some socks :) http://amzn.to/1Pd9yOt http://amzn.to/1Pd9yOt

ghoul2 11y ago

I made something quite similar a while ago for Linux (Cinnamon). https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet https://github.com/abgoyal/ShellToolsApplet http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136 http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/136

daemonk 11y ago

Nice. There are already a couple of programs that do this I think, but maybe use AWS CLI to write a plugin for monitoring ec2 instances' status.

djhworld 11y ago

I just wrote a plugin to allow me to set my Network location (we sit behind a corporate proxy at work) AND my bash proxy settings at the same time. So when I'm not in the office switching to my "home" profile is just a menu click away. This has been a long standing dream of mine to automate - so thanks! EDIT: also it works with emojis, which is handy, here's a screenshot http://imgur.com/CVxchnI http://imgur.com/CVxchnI

daturkel 11y ago
I hope you submitted a pull request!
- djhworld 11y ago
  Sadly it's too bespoke to release, I had all the profile switching scripts written already and have been using them for a few years now. On top of updating environment variables with proxy settings etc, they also update a bunch of configuration files for maven, ssh, stunnel etc via symlinks All this bitbar thing does is call those existing scripts, very simple, but saves me a) wondering what profile I have enabled (now in the menubar) b) opening a terminal and typing "update-env (work|home)" (one click switch)

dannyrosen 11y ago

Anyone know of a solution like this for KDE Plasma?

enedil 11y ago

And nobody is restricted to shell scripts. Any program that writes to STDOUT will work.

reacweb 11y ago

Very nice. Does anyone have entry points to do the same with gnome 3 ?

vanous 11y ago
See this two comments of mine. Perhaps time to study these and make a nice universal, working extension. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10843704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10843704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10841525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10841525

vanous 11y ago

The issue i can see in gnome-shell (on linux) implementations is that long running script can block the UI. Async script execution, on the other hand, exhaust open file resources due to non closed file descriptors. Do OSX tools like this suffer the same problem?

daturkel 11y ago

This is awesome. Can't wait to see more plugins.

matryer 11y ago
Me too :) We didn't have to wait long - check these out: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins https://github.com/matryer/bitbar-plugins Some of them are like full apps in their own right.

zlalanne 11y ago

For i3, i3blocks does the same job: https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks

rasur 11y ago
Why thank you, I use i3 (i love it) and this will be very useful.

vowelless 11y ago

Anyway I can hook up custom keyboard shortcuts to BitBar scripts?

matryer 11y ago
Nice idea - you should raise an issue: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues

rrggrr 11y ago

I almost bought TextBar (www.richsomerfield.com). You for saved me $2.99 and 5 minutes of time. I'm disproportionately grateful for this.

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lambrettaman 11y ago

I'm missing something. I have it installed. My plugins are executable. I've Reset. I've changed the folder. But BitBar says "No Plugins Found"

lambrettaman 11y ago
Must be a Mac thing. I downloaded the .zip file and the plugins work.

mofle 11y ago

I made a Node.js module with a nice API for it to ease plugin creation: https://github.com/sindresorhus/bitbar https://github.com/sindresorhus/bitbar