Bartender controversy, tutorial on how to manage menubar status items via BTT

I see the preset is showing for Sequoia, unfortunately my 2018 Macbook pro is stuck at Ventura, is there a Ventura version of the preset i can download, please?

this is amazing @Andreas_Hegenberg ! i just ditched bartender (yeah im late to the game of how dodgy that company seems to be...)

one small issue i have, it seems that the additional bar below the actual menu bar gets triggered even when im not on the bar but just close..

can this be modified to only trigger when the cursor is actually only in the menu bar location?

best

Z

不知道为什么,我的安装了状态栏示例 example preset (90.2 KB) 后,我的状态图标显示都不正常

I don't know why, after I installed the status bar example example preset (90.2 KB), the display of my status icons is not normal.
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sooo....no option to define the sensitivity/placement?

would REALLY appreciate any help from anyone here..

thx so much in advance!

Z

I was having some trouble with Tahoe. So - I did a total search and destroy - Did my absolute best to find all the little bits and pieces of BTT (used App Cleaner as usual, + shell detective work). I got BTT back to 0, best I can tell. I imported my 'usual default' whose plist doesn't make any reference to the Sim-u-bartender, just some mouse button remaps. Then I did a fresh download of the menubar-floaty thing above.

Now my world looks like this. Note the 'mini chevron' that I can't find anywhere in the settings, a bunch of stuff that doesn't space correctly, and the chevron that -is- there doesn't 'do' anything. Viva chaos!

Could I have missed something for a 'super-clean-uninstall'? Something cached (though, I did delete my Caches directory recently for other cleanup reasons). It's like the old version came back from the dead to haunt the clean-reinstall.

In addition, I notice 'double' black and white icons of the same app, they show up in the settings as different apps... and, as you see up there, the black chevron -had- a white chevron next to it, but it didn't survive the screen grab... but, it's there I tell ya!

I'm currently in the process of implementing Tahoe compatibility. Unfortunately the menubar system changed completely.

BTT 5.589 should already work mostly. If you need to reset run the predefined action "Show / Unhide All Menubar Status Items" once. 5.589 needs a few seconds upon restarting BTT to make everything available.

Possibly you need to delete the items from within your widget, they will be re-generated automatically.

This has been causing issues for me on Sequoia (currently macOS 15.6.1). A bunch of my Mac menu bar items weren't showing up, I finally figured out it's because I installed this preset, even though I had disabled the menu bar item in the preset. I then tried deleting all settings associated with the preset, and then the preset itself, and restarted BTT. But that still didn't help - menu bar items were missing (they reappeared if I quit BTT). And now if BTT is running, I can't even click any of my menu bar items. Could I please get some help on how to disable this "feature"? I'm realizing how reliant I am on BTT to make my mac better, but I can't even use my menu bar with it currently.

I think I managed to fix it by deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.hegenberg.BetterTouchTool.plist, not sure what the impact of it is and why it was needed but I'm just happy to have a usable system again

to reset you can always run the predefined action "unhide / show all menubar menu items", no need to delete the settings

I made a preset to show the active workspace which Andreas then improved :slight_smile: Space Status Menubar Preset

@Andreas_Hegenberg has this preset been updated to use the new "Save Menu Bar Status Item Layout / Ordering" and "Restore Saved Menu Bar Status Item Layout / Ordering"? I want to use it as a reference for my own preset please?

Adding to this "Search Menu Bar Status Items" doesn't load the status items and remains empty for me on 5.612.

@yougotwill which version of macOS are you on?

Could potentially be fixed in 5.617.

Fixed in 5.622! For the record I was on macOS Sonoma 14.7.8 (23H730)

Hey, I updated to the latest version v5.629. On tahoe 26

whenever I drag something, it just keeps going back and won’t stick

see gif : https://share.cleanshot.com/PBJ095vg

hope you could help me solve :slight_smile:

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@Andreas_Hegenberg Just following up on this because I use this preset daily. An issue I noticed since 5.631 is that if I select a status item that is beyond the notch it opens the status item closest to the notch and not the item I originally selected from the floating menubar. Thanks :folded_hands:

I am late to the party so apologies if this has asked or explained elsewhere.

Is there a way to have a menu bar icon either be displayed or hidden depending on its "“state of status” using BTT?

For example:

  1. I would like to have the CCC menu bar icon hidden when a backup is not being performed and displayed when a backup is being performed noting the menu bar icon changes when a backup is being performed.
  2. I would like to have the focus menu car icon hidden when the focus status is other than DND or work and displayed when the focus is DND or work.

If answer is yes then i) great and ii) how do I make this happen?

Much thanks.