Bar not showing

[filipmilo]

Im currently using the macbook pro M2 on ventura 13.6 and having an issue where the bar doesn't show up even though i setup everything following the setup and the default configs. When i run it directly in the terminal it doesn't throw any errors but its now showing.

[FelixKratz]

So it is showing when you run the bar from the commandline and not showing when run as a brew service?

[filipmilo]

Its not showing at all

[FelixKratz]

Could you provide the output of the following command:

ls -la $HOME/.config/sketchybar

[filipmilo]

total 16 drwxr-xr-x@ 4 filipmilosevic staff 128 Dec 12 13:35 . drwxr-xr-x@ 14 filipmilosevic staff 448 Dec 11 12:17 .. drwxr-xr-x@ 7 filipmilosevic staff 224 Dec 12 13:37 plugins -rwxr--r--@ 1 filipmilosevic staff 5305 Dec 12 13:34 sketchybarrc

[FelixKratz]

Ok, now:

sketchybar --query bar

when the bar is running but not showing.

[filipmilo]

{
    "position": "top",
    "topmost": "off",
    "sticky": "off",
    "shadow": "off",
    "font_smoothing": "off",
    "blur_radius": 30,
    "margin": 0,
    "drawing": "on",
    "color": "0x15ffffff",
    "border_color": "0xffff0000",
    "border_width": 0,
    "height": 32,
    "corner_radius": 0,
    "padding_left": 10,
    "padding_right": 10,
    "y_offset": 0,
    "clip": 0.000000,
    "image": {
        "value": "(null)",
        "drawing": "off",
        "scale": 1.000000
    },
    "items": [
         "space.1",
         "space.2",
         "space.3",
         "space.4",
         "space.5",
         "space.6",
         "space.7",
         "space.8",
         "space.9",
         "space.10",
         "space_separator",
         "front_app",
         "clock",
         "volume",
         "battery"
    ]
}

[FelixKratz]

Hmm ok, now:

sketchybar --query front_app

[filipmilo]

Ok for some reason it started showing up right away when i queried... Now its hiding whenever a window is open

[filipmilo]

Thank you and sorry for bothering...

[FelixKratz]

I still think there is an issue here. It should not only show after the query command.

And the bar hiding whenever a window is open is also not expected behavior.

[filipmilo]

Okay i thought i did something wrong, im here to provide any help

[FelixKratz]

Could you try the following:

brew services stop sketchybar
killall sketchybar
brew uninstall sketchybar
brew install sketchybar --head
sketchybar

Does it now show directly?

And could you zip me the folder at $HOME/.config/sketchybar and attach it?

[filipmilo]

Did the commands, its now showing but there is still the issue with it being hidden when a window is open.

Im using yabai as the wm.

[FelixKratz]

Is the bar covered by another window or is it not rendering at all?

[filipmilo]

Its not rendering at all

[filipmilo]

zip.zip Here is the zip of the config folder you mentioned above

[FelixKratz]

When you run sketchybar from the commandline, does it keep running or does it crash when a window is open and it stops showing?

[filipmilo]

Actually its being rendered sorry

[FelixKratz]

Ok, then try:

sketchybar --bar topmost=on

this will keep sketchybar as the topmost window at all times.

[filipmilo]

Its now like this, covering the other windows

[FelixKratz]

To keep yabai from putting windows where sketchybar is use:

yabai -m config external_bar all:40:0

[filipmilo]

Now it works, thank you so much and sorry for the hassle... im still a bit new to this

[FelixKratz]

Now try:

brew services stop sketchybar
killall sketchybar
brew uninstall sketchybar
brew install sketchybar
brew services start sketchybar
yabai -m config external_bar all:40:0
sketchybar --bar topmost=on

does this still work as expected?

[filipmilo]

Works like a charm

[FelixKratz]

Great! Have a nice day.