Showoff: MacOS Statusbar Space Indicator

[xiamaz]

I have built a statusbar space indicator since I don't like custom statusbars (often very inefficient and one needs the normal macos statusbar often anyways. The icons can also be clicked for switching desktops. Currently this only uses yabai for switching desktops, but I am considering adding some more yabai status information.

The code can be found here: https://github.com/xiamaz/YabaiIndicator

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[24unix]

Nice idea. However, I built my own status bar a I like a big title bar of the actual browser tab.
Does it handle multi head setups?

[xiamaz]

Yes it does handle multi-head setups. In the screenshot two displays are active (the unfocused space is greyed out)

[24unix]

Do you keep desktops in sync?

But I don't want to spam your thread, I’ll describe my problem in my own, but would be glad of feedback/ideas.

Maybe you might have a look: #759 (comment)

Which language did you chose for you statusbar?

Ignore the last question, I found you repo.

[xiamaz]

No, I don't keep them in sync. But I guess activating the correct spaces should do the trick? At least on mine the cursor jumps between displays on space focus, but that might just be something in my current yabai config.

[FelixKratz]

https://github.com/dshnkao/SpaceId

[xiamaz]

Somehow I also only managed to find it after beginning to write my own version. At least my version can be used to switch spaces too, so there's yet another solution to the same problem.

[Chandru-B]

@xiamaz Nice one!
Do you know how to get it installed?
I used to use https://github.com/cmacrae/spacebar but it is broken in release 4 of Yabai

[xiamaz]

Thanks. You can build it yourself in XCode, but I have also added a pre-release here: https://github.com/xiamaz/YabaiIndicator/releases/tag/0.1.0

[xiamaz]

Relying on Yabai Window information I have also managed to get proper window layout into desktops, but performance seems to be rather bad right now:

[ysomad]

Hello! Are you going to maintain Yabai Indicator?

[xiamaz]

I use it myself and might answer bug reports, but there currently are no plans for more features.

[ysomad]

Can you please provide some instructions how to install it? Currently using SpaceId, wanna try out YabaiIndicator.

[gldtn]

Awesome, I had just installed SpaceID but it seems like it's not really being maintained! Installed yours and it works great, can you create a brew package?