
You can also reveal menu bar icons based on scripts, which opens up a lot of potential for tying menu bar icons to the connection of certain peripherals, types of network connections, and more. The image comparison trigger can be used for menu icons like Dropbox that change their appearance depending on what they are doing. Version 4 adds new triggers to Bartender’s repertoire.

Individual menu bar items can also be automatically revealed based on triggers. I don’t use the Bartender Bar, but if you have a very large number of menu bar apps installed, it can be a good way to ensure that you can see them all when Bartender is triggered. We have worked around the OSX bug and after a restart the issue should be gone.Hidden items can alternatively appear in the Bartender Bar, which is essentially a secondary menu bar that appears below the system menu bar when Bartender is triggered. OSX has a bug that would cause some apps controlled by Bartender to crash, this was a very rare issue but an unacceptable one.

We have made many improvements to memory usage and performance to prevent this. Again a very small number of users have reported slowing down of their system after extended periods. Very rarely some users would have icons missing in the Bartender Bar, this should be fixed, we have not seen this issue here, so please do send feedback if you see this. A visual bug appeared that all contained items did not shift with the Bartender Bar frame this is now fixed. Closed the Bartender Bar and reopened it. Notification Center UI bug In the previous version, if you: Showed the Bartender Bar. In this version a lot of effort has been put into stabilizing everything and preventing rare issues. We have been working extremely hard to polish up Bartender after releasing 1.0. We have worked around the OSX bug and after a restart the issue should be gone. Overall, Bartender is a great tweak that make OS X's menu bar icons manageable. You can also drag Bartender's tray across the menu bar to place where you like. You can set custom keyboard shortcuts to bring up Bartender for quick access. This is disconcerting and hopefully the developers will fix this issue. In use, Bartender worked well for taming most of our icons but a few applications didn't play nicely and didn't show up in the Bartender app at all.


This makes the OS X menu bar act much like Window's system tray. You can tell it to always show an icon, only show it when there's an update, or hide it all together (if that's not an option within the app itself).
