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An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
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The pipe icon on the menu bar went missing #285

Open Shankar1598 opened 8 months ago

Shankar1598 commented 8 months ago

Describe the bug

The pipe icon went missing, but I am able to move the pipe icon around. It is just invisible. Unsure how to reproduce, I think I was checking and un-checking some of the toggles on the preference section.

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DanCates commented 2 months ago

Hi! I'm experiencing a similar issue. Here's a Loom demonstration. I lost the pipe and now the app no longer works and uninstalling / reinstalling doesn't fix it.

My Summary:

  1. Identifying the Issue - 00:00:00,345 • Hidden Bar is running, but the pipe icon is missing. • The pipe icon was essential for accessing the Hidden Bar menu.
  2. Initial Troubleshooting - 00:00:06,107 • Attempted to drag the pipe icon for organization, causing it to disappear. • Icons missing and reappearing after restarting Hidden Bar.
  3. Accessing Preferences - 00:00:52,594 • Unable to access preferences without the pipe icon. • Only option left is to kill the process using Activity Monitor.
  4. Testing Notch Theory - 00:01:16,198 • Icons reappear after killing the process, possibly hidden under the notch. • Removing other icons to check for the pipe icon did not resolve the issue.
  5. Restarting Hidden Bar - 00:02:00,691 • Killing and reopening Hidden Bar did not bring back the pipe icon. • Unable to interact with Hidden Bar despite multiple attempts.
  6. Reinstallation Attempt - 00:02:38,512 • Uninstalled and reinstalled Hidden Bar, but the issue persists. • Suspected change in configuration file not cleared by reinstallation.
  7. Potential Solution - 00:04:14,000 • Identifying and deleting or modifying the configuration file may be necessary. • Reinstalling macOS might be required as a last resort.
marcelkohl commented 5 days ago

I had a similar issue where I moved the pipe icon behind the arrow icon then could not see or click anything back.

Discovered later that settings are in relation under ~/Library/Containers with com.dwarvesv.minibar and com.dwarvesv.LauncherApplication

As I had installed HiddenBar using brew, then I could get rid of the containers and its settings by: brew remove --cask hiddenbar && brew cleanup

Reinstalled and settings windows allowed me to setup all again.