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ryuta69
ryuta69

Reputation: 147

Is there anyway to hide menubar items in MacOS?

I know I can "auto hide menu bar" in system preferences, however, what I like to do is hide items like this repository.

https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

This repository can hide items on right, but I wonder if I can hide left items (which are application menus).

Any idea is appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1935

Answers (1)

JayB
JayB

Reputation: 543

As for application menus on the left, those can't be hidden, I'm pretty sure.

Applications often have the option to enable or disable their menu bar helper app in the main preferences. If that doesn't help, e.g. if it's a full-fledged menu bar app, not just a helper, then to my knowledge the only solutions are Hidden Bar, which you mentioned, and Bartender.

I'm using the latter, and it does a very fine job. You have four options in Bartender's preferences:

  1. Show (default macOS behavior)
  2. Hide (menulet will be hidden in a special Bartender secondary menu bar, accessible via the triple-bullet icon ··· on the far right)
  3. Always show (menulet will be visible in the main macOS menu bar as well as the secondary Bartender menu bar at the same screen position)
  4. Always hide (menulet will be completely hidden)

Some older menulets seem to switch their position occasionally, e.g. after wake-from-sleep, and Bartender isn't yet able to fix the position of BitBar instances. But for the vast majority of menu bar apps and helpers it will work just fine.

Upvotes: 2

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