Reduce menu bar icon spacing to fit more icons

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This is not really BetterTouchTool related, but I feel it is useful to many - especially if you have a Macbook with a Notch that constantly keeps hiding menu bar status items.

You can show significantly more menu bar status items / icons by reducing the spacing between them. You don't need an app to do that, you can just run these terminal commands:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 0
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 0
killall ControlCenter

Change the 0 to any spacing value you want to try.

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How do we rollback to default values?

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To reset:

defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding

killall ControlCenter
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