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I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to update the docs though right now. Ed
by ElijahLynn 2y ago
I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to update the docs though right now.
Edit: I just see the battery widget not any of the other ones. This is a confusing onboarding experience.
Edit2: ah, they were all hidden because of Macs crap UX on menubar space. No indication there are more menu item. What a poor design decision Mac.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoYeah, it's really bad UX how icons simply don't show up if there's no room on macOS. There should at least be a spillover. Back in the day I paid for https://www.macbartender.com/ https://www.macbartender.com/ to get these features.
- ElijahLynn 2y agoThanks, I'm totally gonna try that!
- Khaine 2y agoYou can also use Ice[1], which does the same thing and is open source [1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
- jedberg 2y agoLooks like the features are very similar. Is there anything the commercial product does that the open source doesn't?
- Khaine 2y agoI've used both, and I think Bartender was a little more polished, UI wise.
- Khaine 2y agoThis was after I stopped using Bartender, but it got silently sold to a third party https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-o...
- DavideNL 2y agoAlternative: install it anyway, and block all connections with Little Snitch. (note that Bartender is also part of SetApp...)
- imagetic 2y agoIce is great. Took some fiddling but I have been stoked on it.
- Kovah 2y agoI would be very careful with using Bartender now. It was a great app, but recently bought by a shady company known for buying apps to milk them for money and user data. I recommend Ice, as linked by Khaine, which is open source, free, and works like a charme.
- freehorse 2y agoAlright, bet. Wanna make your Mac menu bar less clunky? Here’s the tea. Pop these commands in your terminal to tighten it up: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8 defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8 Changed your mind? No cap, just undo it with these: defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding Then, log out and back in. Boom, you’re golden.
- theoreticalmal 2y agoIck
- bolognafairy 2y agostickin out ya notch for the rizzler
- lukevp 2y agoWhat’s the slang about? The OP doesn’t seem to be using any slang or colloquialisms. I thought it was funny but I don’t think I fully got the joke.
- benreesman 2y agoIt’s pretty close to this meme from like a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1963h4k/csharpforgenz https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1963h4k/cs...
- natebc 2y agoIt's like ZoomerGPT or something. I actually needed a smile so i appreciated it.
- freehorse 2y agowasn’t deep or nun, lowkey just wanted to help, learned this terminal thingy here fs I have a system prompt for haiku to convert messages to genz slang. I use it to confuse friends with it sometimes and we have a laugh. I had the instructions somewhere stored and just wanted to rewrite them before posting them here because I am paranoid and did not remember if i posted them verbatim in another place with another username. I know this is not really the place for this sort of thing, but if some people smiled a bit I am good with that
- compootr 2y agoweird, they all appeared for me
- LeoPanthera 2y agoOpen source and especially free open source apps probably don't care too much about the "onboarding experience".