Per-website touchbar with Chrome?

Discussion & Questions
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I'd like to have the default Chrome touchbar most of the time but for a few sites I'd rather have the FN keys. Is it possible to toggle between them based on the current active Chrome tab?

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Probably you'd need BTT + some kind of Chrome extension so you could know what tab is currently open

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Jup you can use conditional activation groups and the "Window Name" condition. The active tab title is always the window title.

In many cases that's enough to recognize a website, sometimes it's necessary to install a chrome extension that sets the window title to the URL of the active tab.

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Sorry to reopen this thread, but I'm wondering whether there's a more elegant solution than renaming chrome tabs, say, using a BTT customVariable to parse the URL in the active chrome window? Trying to figure out how to disable BTT when google spreadsheets are in focus.

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There are many ways, but you always need some Chrome extension. IMHO the easiest is to use something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-in-title/ignpacbgnbnkaiooknalneoeladjnfgb?hl=de and then create a conditional activation group that looks for the url.

Usually you won't notice any change because the websites original title is already long enough to fill the tab - but BTT can read the URL that is appended to the title.

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Cool, thanks. I see there's a black/white list for that Chrome extension, so I don't have to change window names for all domains. That'll work.

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I found a solution. I worked with ChatGPT to create a script that loops and updates the variable.

You can run this Terminal Command:

osascript -e 'repeat; tell application "Google Chrome"; set windowCount to count windows; if windowCount is greater than 0 then; set chromeWindow to window 1; set tabURL to URL of active tab of chromeWindow; tell application "BetterTouchTool"; set_string_variable "customVariable1" to tabURL; end tell; else; display alert "No Chrome windows found."; end if; end tell; delay 1; end repeat'

I also made a BTT action to run this terminal command to make it easier.

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