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Ask HN: Does anyone use their MBP touch bar for anything?
We've had these things for years, and Apple is forcing anyone who wants a new Macbook to adopt one now. So here I am staring at my new one wishing I had physical volume buttons. What can I do with the touch bar?
- werm82 7y agoIf you have BetterTouchTool installed, you can do a lot of cool stuff with the touch bar. I have a button that will run a shell script to spin up a local dev environment.
- SavageBeast 7y agoLiterally the first thing I did was Settings|Keyboard|Touch Bar Shows Function keys and Fn key shows control strip. Now the touch bar acts just like the setup I had on my 2015 MBP - but I do miss the physical buttons ( debugging in Eclipse burns F6 & F8 into your brain ). If someone has found a legitimate use case where this silly widget is an enhancement to usability I'd love to hear it.
- hntddt1 7y agoUsed Pock app for app navigation and music control
- diveintothe9 7y agoThe only function I've added to my touch bar that wasn't previously available was Screenshot, because I do a lot of snapshotting and screen recording, and I'd rather hit that than the stupid Siri button. I wish there was a way to add custom app-specific shortcuts to the touch bar (maybe there is? I'm not sure). I use Sketch a lot for designing, and I'd love to have access to my document colors and text styles in the touch bar, but no joy.