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BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar
- hboon 7y agoI use it to show a few things on my menu bar: * My current task * The total time I have worked today * The time I have spent on the current session so far * GitHub notifications You probably want also use something like [Bartender](https://www.macbartender.com https://www.macbartender.com) too to squeeze some more space out of the menu bar.
- jchw 7y agoI believe there is a similar feature in a GNOME extension, called Argos, as well.
- ratboy666 7y agoArgos is very useful. I use it to mount/unmount external drives, display power consumption, control VPN, a simple application launcher. Argos claims compatibility with BitBar. Argos claims to support JavaScript Gnome Shell execution -- I have no reason to doubt this (as Argos itself is a JavaScript Gnome Extension). I highly recommend Argos for Gnome 3 users.
- maheart 7y agoThank you! You won't believe that I've been looking for just this tool for the last several months (I've been searching along the lines of "i3 status bar for gnome-shell" but was unsuccessful).
- robot2051 7y agoUsing argos with zenity let you provide inputs from prompted dialog in gnome make it feels like professional taskbar item :) you may find it tricky to execute a function inside your argos script and i found a simple way to make it works is to call the script itself and provide arguments to it. I wrote it here in my blog if you want a quick example to get started . http://blog.ebfe.pw/posts/argos.html http://blog.ebfe.pw/posts/argos.html
- flarex 7y agoLast commit August 2016. Doesn't look like it's being maintained and I remember having issues that last time I used it.
- erikcw 7y agoI use Hammerspoon for a similar use case. Works great and updates roll out pretty regularly. https://www.hammerspoon.org/ https://www.hammerspoon.org/
- tbrock 7y agoWow, I always skipped over hammerspoon because I thought it was only for window management. My eyes are opened, this is great!
- wlesieutre 7y agoI use hammerspoon for a light/dark mode toggle as well
- wingerlang 7y agoRepo owner is looking for maintainer as of November 5th. Check out the issue #495.
- volfied 7y agoI use it to list all my PRs, with icons for their approval/CI status alongside a list of PRs that are awaiting my review. I like that the API is just outputting lines, but I wish there was more documentation.
- wingerlang 7y agoI do the same thing, plus a few shortcuts I use a lot (open specific directories, clean directory etc).
- mkagenius 7y agoShortcuts to see or to run on clicking on it (which seems too much effort) ? And how do you guys have so much space at the top? I only print my local IP address and its color ( red/blue) depending on whether my mitmproxy is running or not and I don't have whole lot of space left on my MBP 15".
- wingerlang 7y agoNot sure what you mean with the first question. All information is displayed in the drop down menu. I’ve thought about adding a number of actionable items as an indicator but.. haven’t needed it imo
- mkagenius 7y ago> drop down menu I see. I do not use it like that, hence i was confused. I just need it to see a particular text, like some status.
- gimboland 7y agoHot tip for more space in your menu bar: Bartender — https://www.macbartender.com/ https://www.macbartender.com/
- smnscu 7y ago
- BurningFrog 7y agoAll I want in my menu bar is a UTC clock next to my local clock. Do we have a tool for that?
- treve 7y agoSeems like this tool might
- hamandcheese 7y agoI use UTCMenuClock: https://github.com/netik/UTCMenuClock https://github.com/netik/UTCMenuClock
- jeremyw 7y agoAmong other features, iStat Menus has a pretty flexible date line. I have a date + times in three zones.
- ryanmccullagh 7y agoLink?
- ihuman 7y agohttps://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
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- ryanmccullagh 7y agoThis is STILL something Windows has that Mac doesn’t. Windows supports multiple clocks natively.
- oefrha 7y agoAre you talking about additional clocks when you click on the Windows clock? Yeah, macOS has that too in the Notification Center (Today view, brought up by clicking the Notification Center button at the far end of the menu bar), allowing as many clocks as you want instead of a maximum of two. Plus the Windows clock can’t show seconds (without hacks) which is pretty infuriating. Please ignore this if there’s a way to display multiple clocks on the Windows task bar natively.
- bobberb 7y agoWindows equivalent?
- prox 7y agoWondering the same thing. Can’t recall anything like it.
- WillYouFinish 7y agoYou could do something similar with AutoHotkey, I think. Of course you don’t have the option to have wide texts an graphs, but at least something of the size of an icon.
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- sciencerobot 7y agoI love this tool. Here is the script I wrote to show how many ec2 instances I have running (so I remember to turn them off): https://github.com/audy/bitbars/blob/master/ec2 https://github.com/audy/bitbars/blob/master/ec2
- girishso 7y agoConfused this with AnyBar, it displays a simple colored icon in the Menu bar. I use it for displaying my local build status. https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar
- jploh 7y agoYeah, when I was looking for AnyBar once before, I kept bumping into BitBar.
- feisuzhu 7y agoI use it to display and mute alarms on production env.
- pdaddyo 7y agoI use this to show my type-1 son's continuous glucose monitor graph & numbers: https://github.com/pdaddyo/bitbar-nightscout https://github.com/pdaddyo/bitbar-nightscout. Wonderful tool!
- dzhiurgis 7y agoI love BitBar. I use it to constantly ping my router and Cloudflare. That way I know whether it's my router acting up or the ISP. Also I've modified one of the weather plugins to also add wind speed and direction.
- justadudeama 7y agoFun and useful tool. I created a button that will show me the NASA photo of the day: https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Science/apod.1h.py https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Science/apod.1h.py The other ones in the Science category are also quite interesting.
- mateuszf 7y agoI use it to display the outside temperature, bitcoin price and whether my sony mx headphone is connected. Very useful tool.
- jedisct1 7y agoI use this all the time to control a DNSCrypt proxy on MacOS: https://github.com/jedisct1/bitbar-dnscrypt-proxy-switcher https://github.com/jedisct1/bitbar-dnscrypt-proxy-switcher
- nishanth_v 7y agoI use this to monitor my binance portfolio value https://github.com/nishanthvijayan/BinanceBalanceMac https://github.com/nishanthvijayan/BinanceBalanceMac
- Odenwaelder 7y agoecho "KW"$(date +"%V") Super useful for me!
- classified 7y agoGreat tool. Call me a troglodyte, but I love the fact that it's written in ObjC, not Swift.
- jedimastert 7y agoI was never a fan of ObjC to begin with, but I was never forced to use it and my disliked were really just ergonomic.
- kenshi 7y agoI’d call you a person of taste and sophistication. But more objectively, it is always a pleasure to come to some open source code base and know you have few worries about language churn incurring a maintenance cost.
- _asummers 7y agoIn X, you san use xsetroot. I have a few scripts to grab weather and time, and put these in my DWM status bar, refreshing every minute. Obviously this has a bit more eye candy but if you use Linux, you can approximate this pretty easily.
- adim86 7y agoHow did you guys find out about bitbar before now? Product hunt? Reddit?
- floriancargoet 7y agoIt's already been posted here a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21797664 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21797664 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17279599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17279599
- nkotov 7y agoI've been using Bitbar for several years now. Very happy with it for what it does. On my personal MBP, I use it to see when the GPU switches between dedicated and integrated. On my work laptop, I use it to see the current playing track on Spotify.
- geoelectric 7y agoI use Bitbar to display my current Apple Music song in the menu bar. Works pretty well, and it was easy to customize the iTunes script I downloaded from their user scripts page. Was nice when I went to Catalina and the only changed I needed to make was %s/iTunes/Music for the AppleScript target name change and the plugin just worked.
- The_Hoff 7y agoUsed with oathtools to easily display my enterprise one-time password
- fullstopslash 7y agothis is phenomenal and I look forward to using it, has anyone done something similar for linux distributions?
- ratboy666 7y agoargos extension for Gnome 3. Compatible with BitBar
- christefano 7y agoKnowing about Argos compatibility is super useful! Upvoted.
- slowhand09 7y agoWindows version? No macs at work.