Bartender for Mac

4.0.44

4.0.44

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Bartender 4 the biggest update yet, specifically created for macOS Big Sur. It is currently in Public Beta as more exciting new features are added. It is free to use whilst in Beta. It will then be a paid upgrade.

New Features / Improvements

• Custom Hot Keys for any menu bar item - Now with Bartender you can now assign hot keys to any menu bar items, Activating the hot key will show the menu bar item (if its hidden) and optionally left click or right click it. Great for apps that are hidden, or apps that don't let you assign a hot key (like Control Center or Notification Center).
• Initial AppleScript support - You can now perform a number of Bartender functions via AppleScript (see its library in Script Editor). This includes showing menu bar items, and activating them.
• Initial Spotlight support - You can now search for menu bar items and activate them using spotlight, start your search with the keyword "Bartender ".
• Show For Updates Image Comparison Algorithm - The image comparison algorithm has been completely re-written, it has always worked in light/dark mode and with different backgrounds, but it now has less chance of false positives, and better detection of real even very small changes (This now works with Arq), all this and it uses less CPU to do the check.
• Updated sidebar icons - There are new images for the sidebar icons in Bartender Preferences.

Bug Fixes

• Show for Updates Image Comparison Tuning - Thank you to the user who provided me with examples of Show for update image comparisons that have given incorrect results, using these I have tuned the image comparison more.
• Shift in menu bar items when changing space - Bartender could shift the menu bar items for a split second when changing spaces, this has been fixed.
• Menu bar item spacing not applied after macOS restart - For some users menu bar item spacing is not being applied after a macOS restart, and a logout and back in is required. This version has test fixes in place for this.
• Rare slowdown loading of Menu Bar Layout Screen, and high CPU usage - This has effected a very small number of users and seems linked to accessing Current Session Dictionary, I have removed this and it should hopefully fix this issue.
• MacUpdater left click not working - This seemed to still be an issue for some users, this should be fixed.
• Quick Search, Esc not resetting search - Pressing Esc in Quick search after searching for something would not reset the shown results back to all items, it does now.