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Just going to uninstall it. Wtf. - Are there alternatives?
Ice [0] is pretty cool and actively developped, but items just overflow into the notch when you open it, making them unreachable.
Seem iBar [1] is the only real alternative for mac with notches, but it's closed source.
[0] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ibar-menubar-icon-control-tool...
Unknown is now known: Purchased by applause.dev via https://x.com/digitalychee/status/1798207774993891626
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oh that's cool. I have the original (first version) of the Leap Motion in a box somewhere. Now I want to pull it out and install BTT and see what I can do with it.
unfortunately I removed Leap Motion support a few years ago ;-(
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Yes, but you had to re-enable it due to the cert change. Bartender doesn't explain this is what happened and simply states "there's a known issue where certain apps, including Bartender, might not receive Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions properly, despite the user granting them in System Settings." https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/
I agree the communication about this change of ownership has been far from ideal. But issues with permissions (e.g. the user needing to disable/re-enable some macOS permission after an update, even if the cert doesn't change) are fairly common.
In this case, downright fraudulent.
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Almost 100% of the apps with tray icons don't really need them. They're basically marketing: If you're in charge of brand management for an app company, and there is a way to get your brand on the user's screen at all times for free, you're going to always do it, regardless of whether or not the user needs it there. Just stick some kind of context menu on the icon so you can at least justify it. I'd love to know the…
What's comical about this is that most apps ALREADY have a persistent icon on the screen - the Dock icon. From what I've seen, most mac users don't enable dock hiding, so it's always there. It's just bad design.
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Almost 100% of the apps with tray icons don't really need them. They're basically marketing: If you're in charge of brand management for an app company, and there is a way to get your brand on the user's screen at all times for free, you're going to always do it, regardless of whether or not the user needs it there. Just stick some kind of context menu on the icon so you can at least justify it. I'd love to know the…
What's comical about this is that most apps ALREADY have a persistent icon on the screen - the Dock icon. From what I've seen, most mac users don't enable dock hiding, so it's always there. It's just bad design.
These types of things tend to not have a dock icon, because they run in the background and don’t have their own windows that you common interact with or need to activate
Assuming that Homebrew doesn't get poisoned with a haxored version of Bartender, you can install a non-tainted version of Bartender from Homebrew by installing it from its formula URL.
Homebrew does not make it easy to do this, but it is possible:
brew unlink bartender
brew uninstall bartender
curl -sSLo /tmp/bartender.rb "https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/ac7bd3c11799ce95a7057796e9d01db81796f381/Casks/b/bartender.rb"
brew install /tmp/bartender.rb
rm /tmp/bartender.rb
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> Pointer Acceleration being the biggest one. I love pointer acceleration, and won't use an OS that doesn't feature it. I _like_ being able to perform pixel-precise movement of the cursor on a ~20MP desktop without also having to drag the mouse across the entire desk or modify mouse DPI to get from one corner to the other. The disappearing scrollbars are awful though. I have a feeling Apple made that a default to get…
> I _like_ being able to perform pixel-precise movement of the cursor on a ~20MP desktop without also having to drag the mouse across the entire desk or modify mouse DPI to get from one corner to the other. shrug I can do pixel-precise movement without acceleration, I just have to move the mouse a lot slower. The problem is that in my experience, people conflate DPI with sensitivity, and so say things like "1000 DPI…
Your point though does make we wish that DPI, sensitivity, and the acceleration curve were all configurable directly in the pointer settings for Mac and Windows.
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As a long time mac user I have zero utilities installed. If you want to turn your mac into windows, maybe just use windows.
Sometimes, you don't have an option. At my current job, we're issues MacBooks. My biggest pet peeve of macOS is the grouping of windows behind a single icon on the dock bar. I hate that if I have two Chrome windows open, it takes two clicks to go between them. With the exception of modals, if a program has multiple windows open, when I should see each of them as its own item on the dock bar (or in Windows, the taskba…
Right-click the Dock icon (keep holding the button), move your mouse up to the window you want in the menu, then let go to activate that window.
I typically just keep part of each of my windows viable, so I can simply click on them, if I'm going back and forth. So it's still just one click. I got out of the habit of maximizing windows a couple decades ago when I first got a Mac and my first widescreen display.