Half-width bar

[hamadahiro]

Is it possible to make the SketchyBar just half the width of the screen, so that it covers the left side of the menu bar and exposes the icons on the right side of macOS, allowing them to be clicked on?

[FelixKratz]

Check #221 in combination with the topmost bar property you should be able to achieve this.

[hamadahiro]

Thank you. I've tried this, but I can't seem to make only one bracket transparent. When I set the color of the bar to transparent and then add color only to the left side, leaving the right side transparent, it does nothing. I can only change the color for the whole bar.

sketchybar --add braket left_items ${LEFT_ITEMS[@]} \
           --set left_items color=0xff000000 \
                            background.height=$BAR_HEIGHT

sketchybar --add braket right_items ${RIGHT_ITEMS[@]} \
           --set right_items color=0x00000000 \
                             background.height=$BAR_HEIGHT

Can you confirm whether this is possible at all? If yes, would you mind explaining how to achieve this? Thank you.

[FelixKratz]

This is possible, there is a slight problem in your code, since you need to use background.color instead of color for the brackets.

You could also completely leave out the right bracket if you only want items to appear on the left side or vice versa.

Try running sketchybar from the commandline to see the errors like this printed to screen:

brew services stop sketchybar
sketchybar