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However, thanks to Bartender, all of my visible menu bar icons are usually to the right of the Touch Bar window, safe from being obscured. And if I have it automatically hide, I have to be careful not to move the pointer all the way to the top of the display if I’m trying to click something in the menu bar. But if I don’t set it to automatically hide, any menus that drop down from my actual menu bar are hidden behind it. That said, I have a Hyper-backtick shortcut set up to easily dismiss it with my left hand when needed.Ĭon #3 (the window level), though, is a little more significant for me, because I want the Touch Bar at the top of my screen, basically acting as a second, much prettier menu bar. I actually haven’t once had to move a window because the Touch Bar is obscuring it. The only thing at the top of my display is my iTerm visor, and all of the action in there is usually happening at the bottom of the visor (other than the first command I type, but my prompt is two lines so the cursor is visible anyway).

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This is almost certainly a personal quirk, but I almost never have windows at the top of the screen - I keep most windows visually centered to some extent, and rarely have full-height windows. I don’t care about con #1, I have trackpad gestures for everything anyway.Ĭon #2 is almost a non-issue for me.

Having a Touch Bar docked at the top of your display hides title bars of windows at the top of the screen, and gets in the way of things like typing at the top of an iTerm visor window.

It floats at the absolute highest level, so it always obscures menus underneath it.

This one is obvious, but it’s no longer a touch screen and there’s no translation of mouse-to-touch gestures, so some of BetterTouchTool’s cool gesture capabilities are off the table.

It has global shortcuts for hiding/showing the Touch Bar windowĪ numbered list, because I’ll address them one at a time.

It can automatically hide and show the way the Dock can.

It can be docked to top or bottom of display, sans window buttons (the traffic lights).

And suddenly I found myself more interested in hacking around with what BetterTouchTool can do with a Touch Bar. This allowed me to have all of my howzit buttons appear when I cd into a project directory (I modified it to also show the F-key equivalents for better keyboard access).

The most developed one seems to be Touch Bar Simulator. It’s not a terribly difficult trick, but there aren’t a lot of choices out there.

#Bettertouchtool spotify touch bar mac

I did, however, miss that howzit integration I mentioned, at least enough that I got curious about Touch Bar simulators I could easily run on my Mac mini. So I didn’t really miss the Touch Bar when I moved over to an M1 Mac mini.

I’d stretch to it on the occasions I needed to use Touch ID or run a howzit command, but not for any of the other features it offered. Howzit tasks in the Touch Barĩ0% of the time my MacBook was on a stand next to an external display, being controlled from an external keyboard and trackpad, and the Touch Bar was, at best, inconvenient to reach. I had a cool script that made buttons for tasks that howzit could run in the current directory when I was in the terminal, and I used that quite a bit, but other than that, not really. I immediately loved the idea of the Touch Bar, made it do a few cool things, and generally appreciated the fact that it was there, offering contextually-relevant and visually identifiable “keys.” Did I actually use it? Not a lot.

#Bettertouchtool spotify touch bar pro

So I had a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar for a couple of years. But how could I call myself a “Mac Mad Scientist” if things didn’t get a little crazy? We’re all mad here, right? I almost didn’t write this post because I was worried it would indicate mental instability of some kind 2. I know, the first thing you thought when you read that was “but Apple is discontinuing the Touch Bar!” Let me explain. I’ve recently put some 1 time into making a Touch Bar “dashboard” using BetterTouchTool.