How to Remove useless icon in Menu Bar

[Jerry080801]

MacBook-Pro:~ jerry$ barhide -hV [options] utools.app /opt/homebrew/bin/barhide: line 89: [: too many arguments No app with this name

[artginzburg]

barhide utools

[ygurin]

Awesome tool, @artginzburg could you also give me another example I'm running Logitech's G HUB, trying to remove the useless icon cluttering my toolbar. I can open the app using open /Applications/lghub.app. I've tried:

MacBook-Pro:~ User$ barhide lghub
No app with this name

This is what the processes look like

[Jerry080801]

barhide utools

Thank you! Extremely utilitarian tool

[artginzburg]

@ygurin for now, try using the app's bundle identifier (e.g. for Logitech G HUB Installer, it's com.logi.ghub.installer). Something like barhide com.logi.ghub

In the future, barhide should be able to work with just a path to the app. Idk how did I not expect that :D

I'll also look into the search algorithm. If open -a lghub works, then barhide lghub should have worked too. Really strange.

[Jerry080801]

Is it possible to put menubar items in Control Center?

[jordikt]

Hi @artginzburg

If I hide one icon of the menu bar, how can I show it again?

Thx

[artginzburg]

Hi @jordikt

Just run the command again with the same arguments

[jordikt]

I suppose I did something wrong. These are the steps I did:

1) I pasted "git clone https://github.com/artginzburg/barhide cd barhide make" directly in Terminal. A popup window said me that I had to install something like "xCode developer tools" (or something similar, I didn't note it).

2) After some minutes of downloading and installing the tools, I pasted again the previous code in terminal. Terminal returrned an error 71 of installation. This is the text from Terminal:

**Last login: Mon May 15 13:19:22 on ttys000 jordi@MacBook-MacBook-Pro-de-Jordi ~ % git clone https://github.com/artginzburg/barhide cd barhide make Cloning into 'barhide'... remote: Enumerating objects: 35, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (15/15), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done. remote: Total 35 (delta 9), reused 9 (delta 5), pack-reused 20 Receiving objects: 100% (35/35), 9.91 KiB | 181.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (14/14), done. install barhide.sh /usr/local/bin/barhide install: /usr/local/bin/barhide: Permission denied make: * [install] Error 71 jordi@MacBook-MacBook-Pro-de-Jordi barhide %

3) After that, Terminal says that barhide doesn't exist as a command:

jordi@MacBook-MacBook-Pro-de-Jordi ~ % barhide com.bome.miditranslator.pro zsh: command not found: barhide jordi@MacBook-MacBook-Pro-de-Jordi ~ % barhide

4) If I type cd barhide and after make, it gives the same error 71

**jordi@MacBook-MacBook-Pro-de-Jordi ~ % cd barhide jordi@MacBook-MacBook-Pro-de-Jordi barhide % make install barhide.sh /usr/local/bin/barhide install: /usr/local/bin/barhide: Permission denied make: * [install] Error 71 jordi@MacBook-MacBook-Pro-de-Jordi barhide %

I am an absolute incompetent using Terminal, so... What I did wrong? How can I fix it? Thx in advance!

[artginzburg]

Seems that macOS changed something about the permissions of /usr/local/bin/ in some update, because I also can't install the script like that.

For now, it works fine with sudo make instead of make.

I'd also recommend to just use Homebrew (https://github.com/artginzburg/barhide#via-beer-homebrew), because it works without sudo

P.S. Are you on Apple Silicon by any chance?

[jordikt]

Thanks, sudo make worked fine.

I am not in Apple Silicon, I am running Monterey 12.6.5 on a macbook pro retina 15' mid 2015 intel core i7.

I can hide all menu bar items, except the one I need to hide ("Bome Midi Translator Pro"). Even using the flag -f the icon is still there.

[jordikt]

Restarting the computer makes the icon of "Bome Midi Translator Pro" to be hidden if it was shown (and shown if it was hidden).

Maybe there is a command to restart the status bar to avoid restarting the computer?

[gingerbeardman]

@jordikt that's a strange Java app, I had no luck just now trying.

[jordikt]

@artginzburg @gingerbeardman

any idea of how to restart the status bar icons?

thx.

[gingerbeardman]

@jordikt https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/02/24/restart-frozen-menu-bar-extras-mac/

[jordikt]

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/02/24/restart-frozen-menu-bar-extras-mac/

Thanks for the link. Restarting the menubar don't hide the icon, I have to restart the computer. It's weird.