Monitorcontrol: How to hide the icons on taskbar？

[valasco]

1st. thx for this app，it works on my display.
but the icon is too ugly :>, how can i hide it? I think it will be gone if I delect it,but I can't find where is it. if there is a way to hide it, please tell me,thx!

best regards!

[sn0wyfall]

You can use Bartender or a similar free app to do it

[JoniVR]

I agree that it might be better to just use bartender or vanilla to hide the icons you want to hide.

If we allow you to hide the icon there’s no way to access your preferences with the current implementation.

[legendaryaman]

We can implement this feature like Rectangle app.

[acousticbiker]

I agree that it might be better to just use bartender or vanilla to hide the icons you want to hide.

If we allow you to hide the icon there’s no way to access your preferences with the current implementation.

Thanks, JoniVR - great app that fills a curious gap in macOS. If you're open to reconsidering, I too would appreciate an option to hide the menubar icon, since once preferences have been set initially there's not much reason to go back to it.

[JoniVR]

I agree that the rectangle implementation might work pretty well, PR's always welcome though! 🙂

[Mobofunk]

Just signed up to Git to also request this feature, the rectangle way sounds nice to me :)

Thanks for the app, working well on my 2 x Philips 328e1ca monitors

[raivivek]

Or something like, show up only when external display is connected would also be nice. Thanks again for the great software.

[sdaitzman]

Gigantic +1 on this issue ☺️

[legendaryaman]

I easily implemented in my build by using applicationShouldHandleReopen

func applicationShouldHandleReopen(_: NSApplication, hasVisibleWindows _: Bool) -> Bool { self.prefsClicked(self) return true }

[sdaitzman]

@legendaryaman where do you make that change? Do you have a fork somewhere? Thanks so much! 😃

[sdaitzman]

Oh I see, you added it within AppDelegate.swift inside the AppDelegate class. I had to add a semicolon to get it to compile:

func applicationShouldHandleReopen(_: NSApplication, hasVisibleWindows _: Bool) -> Bool { self.prefsClicked(self); return true }

This adds my expected behavior of "the preferences pop up when you open the app again" but does not hide the icon. Is there an easy way to do that? I'm also poking into the code to try and see.

[legendaryaman]

Oh I see, you added it within AppDelegate.swift inside the AppDelegate class. I had to add a semicolon to get it to compile:

func applicationShouldHandleReopen(_: NSApplication, hasVisibleWindows _: Bool) -> Bool { self.prefsClicked(self); return true }

This adds my expected behavior of "the preferences pop up when you open the app again" but does not hide the icon. Is there an easy way to do that? I'm also poking into the code to try and see.

Just comment out these two lines in AppDelegate

self.statusItem.image = NSImage(named: "status")
self.statusItem.menu = self.statusMenu

Status bar menu will also disappear after this change so don't forget to add a quit button in MainPrefsViewController
@IBAction func quitButton(_: AnyObject) { app.quitClicked(self) }

[sdaitzman]

@legendaryaman thank you!!