BitBar
Dev tools
menu bar utility
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
7 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for showing script output such as sales, docker status, or bank spending in the menu bar
From 4 comments
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835544 As far as the app, been sporting it for a while now and I really like it. Github is active as well. I'm a big fan…
wingerlang on HNI love this app. I connected it to my bank in order that I could watch my monthly spending through my menu bar [0]. Surprisingly useful way of managing money as it makes it…
lhnz on HNI use it to display my (remote) docker uptime stats and the external/internal ip adres. It works quite nice.
tikumo on HNThis is really useful. I'm going to dump billings and use this to record time for invoicing to clients in a .yaml file and add a nice little preprocessor for creating a csv file…
willyt on HN
Easy to add plugins by dropping a shell script in a directory
From 2 comments
I would love to see something as well-packaged, but for Linux. Most of the answers that people give end up being QT APIs or other dev tools. Bitbar is just so much easier... Put…
xd1936 on HNI've been using it for a while. It's ace. A couple of plugins I've written for it: List local vagrant boxes with statuses: https://gist.github.com/onion2k/3462b6effd55472aa192…
onion2k on HN
Objections
Plugins fail with 'launch path not accessible' unless made executable with chmod +x
From 3 comments
I get "launch path not accessible" whichever plugin I try to run. :(
spurgu on HNThis happens to me, too, with a yellow triangle icon showing. Running in Terminal shows "No such file or directory" (strange since I even redownloaded it).
personlurking on HNJust as a quick sidenote: If your plugin directory is inside your User folder, it seems that you have to add the +x flag to your plugins. Example: chmod +x pluginname.sh
axx on HN
Bug can create multiple BitBars in the menu bar
From 1 comment
There is still an annoying bug that will create multiple BitBars in the menu bar. https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/21
hmottestad on HN
Requests
A Linux or Ubuntu equivalent
From 2 comments
does something similar exist for Ubuntu?
qsimd on HNI would love to see something as well-packaged, but for Linux. Most of the answers that people give end up being QT APIs or other dev tools. Bitbar is just so much easier... Put…
xd1936 on HN
Questions
How to install a plugin from GitHub
From 1 comment
Forgive my ignorance but how do I get a plugin to work with BitBar? There's no download button on Git for the reddit plugin (do I need to sign up for Github to see it?)
personlurking on HN
Alternatives named
Hammerspoon
From 2 comments
I find Hammerspoon[0] ideal for this kind of thing, and dynamically scriptable in Lua too. [1] [0] http://www.hammerspoon.org/ [1] http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar
marcosscriven on HNI can vouch for Hammerspoon, it is an excellent scriptable Lua environment with built-in hooks for probably every native OS X feature you've ever wanted to script. Great project,…
sdegutis on HN
Keyboard Maestro
From 1 comment
Can you compare it to Keyboard Maestro, assuming you've tried it out.
wingerlang on HN
rumps (Python)
From 1 comment
There's https://github.com/jaredks/rumps for Python.
jackhammer2022 on HN
xfce4-genmon-plugin
From 1 comment
Depends on the desktop environment. I use xfce4-genmon-plugin, close enough?
voidon on HN