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FR: Hide macOS menubar icon #9238

Open itsmingjie opened 1 year ago

itsmingjie commented 1 year ago

What are you trying to do?

MacOS menubar real-estate is getting more expensive with the notch of more recent Macbooks. I would love to be able to keep Tailscale running silently in the background, and most of the time I don't need Tailscale's menubar icon to be there.

How should we solve this?

Provide an option in settings to hide the menubar icon and keep Tailscale running in the background. Configurations that used to be done with the menu can be called out when launching Tailscale directly from the applications folder again (or via Spotlight/Raycast).

What is the impact of not solving this?

No response

Anything else?

No response

DentonGentry commented 1 year ago

It is possible to run on MacOS without the GUI: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/wiki/Tailscaled-on-macOS

To set expectations: I do not believe we are allowed to offer a Network Extension in the App Store which gives no visual indication that it is running.

itsmingjie commented 1 year ago

Thanks, @DentonGentry! This is great resource.