
Get Rid of Bartender and Other Menu Bar Apps · Technical inconsistencies blog
Since having a notch on my MacBook, I cannot fit all the icons in my menu bar.
I’ve tried heaps of apps to make it work: Bartender, Ice/Thaw, and Hidden, but they all had subtle bugs.
Turns out, there’s an easy way to avoid using these apps by shrinking the spacing and padding of the menu bar items, and now I don’t need any of these apps!
From the terminal, type
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 2
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSele…