As with normal TouchBar behavior, you should be able to adjust volume and brightness with one tap, instead of 3.

• Tap & slide to adjust volume
• Slider times out after inactivity and shows the regular Touch Bar screen (or tap anywhere on the TB).

versus, how it is now:

• Tap Volume
• Tap & Slide to adjust
• Tap the X to close

When adding the dock widget, it would be great to be able to see the red notifications badges.

Love your app, the only thing I miss from BTT is a way to quickly check how much time is left on battery. Is it possible to add something like this? Thanks

Hi,

not sure if it is doable by any stretch but I am heavily relying on having minimized windows in my dock - is there any chance of displaying them as well? Having them in a similar fashion as showing the downloads folder would be perfect.

Thanks!

just like original function thx, btw:this app is awesome

In version v1.4 the ability to show the battery percentage in the clock widget has been added.

The display looks like this:

The display looks like this when charging:

The icons are not ideal and I would prefer it if a professional that understands macOS icons/symbols created new icons to better convey the meaning here. There are three icons, one for each possible battery state: draining, charging and charged.

The existing icon was created by combining the icon of the Clock and Energy Saver preference icons.

(Please note that any artwork contributed to this project would have to be made available under the project's license (GPLv3).)

Awesome energy bar!
small issue:
what's the refresh rate for the weather widget? for some reason I can't trigger a refresh and get only old weather result or none.

In the control strip on regular Touch Bar you can flick the volume buttons left or right (without having to open the menu, then sliding). For quick interval changes. I would love to see this shortcut also added to the volume buttons in the EnergyBar control strip.

Thanks!

Would it be possible to add the "Lock Mac" icon to the quick touch options?

I took the liberty of creating a cask in Homebrew for EnergyBar.app.

It's currently a pull request: Homebrew/homebrew-cask#52440

My first cask, so let's see how it goes. :)

Thanks for the useful app!

Trash not actually empty but shows as such on the Touch Bar.

would love to use this but I cant use it with the MuteMe app :(

But this is a very nice application, nice job!

No idea on this one but Chrome and Firefox seems to have an issue with ESC not working to exit full screen mode (works with safari).

Also trying to use fn + esc doesnt seem to work either so unsure if this is a energybar bug or a touchbar issue but keen to hear if anyone else has the same issue.

The play/pause button isn't working. Have already trying rebooting. Any suggestions? Thanks!

I can't see weather widget.
I did to enable location service. but Don't show touch bar.

macOS 10.14.6 location:Tokyo

it will be great to be able to hide and unhide energy bar for people that uses quick actions for other programs like using the auto corrector in safari or the emojis . since when I have energy bar running I can't access does feature when using safari or other apps.

Can you add other services on "now playing" widget like this app https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice

Subject says it all. 🙂

Hi,
An interesting and useful feature for power users would be a CPU/RAM/Swap monitoring graphic.

This could take the form of a compact bar chart with columns for CPU, RAM and Swap, optionally with numerical values. Pressing on the graphic could expand horizontally to show CPU usage per CPU

This would be similar to the information presented on the top rows of a linux 'top' command

The brightness widget only works when my macbook is not connected to external screens. Not working meaning changing the slider does nothing to the macbook screen brightness. When running unconnected, it works as expected.

I've been having some issues with the Play/Brightness/Volume Control. It doesn't appear in normal mode and appears greyed out in editing mode. I can't remove it from the touch bar in editing mode.
I can add a new instance of Play/Brightness/Volume Control but the old one remains in the Touch Bar and uses up space in editing mode which leaves a lot of space once I finish editing mode.

Restarting EnergyBar/OSX or reinstalling EnergyBar has not helped unfortunately.

Is it Possible to implement a simple small Button where you can select a custom action. Like starting the Screen Saver or Skip song in music player.

I would be very happy about this feature :D

I wonder if this good option of original Touch Bar can be implemented?

It can be cool, for example, if the quick tap on music widget can open the scrolling bar.

Is it possible? I would like to use it

The default Touch Bar can recognize touches on the leftmost area (without OLED underneath) as Esc key. It would be great if EnergyBar can share the same behavior.

Great job! Any way to switch to the standard or app specific touch bar?

Using the 16-inch MacBook I have noticed a few issues:

• The escape button/key is present
• The now playing widget doesn't seem to work with Music
• The Dock contains 5 document icons that are un-tappable
• The image to the left of the Trash button

EnergyBar v1.7
macOS v10.15.2 (19C57)

It would be awesome if the album art for the currently playing song showed up instead of the icon for Spotify.

I would love to implement it myself in Swift, or just copy this widget from MTMR, but I have no experience with ObjC. Would it be possible?

Would love to have a battery icon that provides the battery status of the device. Would provide more of an incentive to hide the Menu Bar for more screen real estate.

It would be nice to get an HowTo for installation. Many thanks!

As someone that sometimes accidentally hits the task bar icons when typing i'm wondering if its possible to have the touchbar icon touches disable while typing.

Did some digging but cant see too much on it either to do it via code or as part of OSX but thought it might be handy. Maybe a transparent overlay over the touchbar screen for 100ms after a keypress or something.

Currently the default "Control" bar is fixed for play, brightness, sound, mute. It would be nice if we could add / subtract individual portions like the default Touch Bar. For example, if we wanted to have just the brightness and volume sliders but not the mute and play buttons. Or to add the nightshift / DND buttons, etc. Thanks!

The Trash cann should be optional. Id rather have a skip button next to the play pause than the trash.

Also if you tap on the now playing it should open that app

Hey, I just have a quick question on the escape key for energybar. First off excellent work! I love this so much, but when I'm playing a game, in this case terraria yesterday, the escape key on the energybar doesn't register ingame. So I had to quit to use the system esc key. Is this a known issue? If not I hope it can somehow be fixed :D
Thanks

This button doesn't work on any streaming videos. I have tested music, youtube and live streaming, but the play button does no influence on them.

My macos version is 10.15.2

The force quit applications menu opens usually with Option + Command + Esc. This doesn't work with EnergyBar.

Thanks for this great app.
It would be brilliant to have optional buttons for moving forward and backwards on media app.

When the user hides the TouchBar with EB, minimized windows can no longer be accessed. It'd be great if there was a widget for those.

I usually use the touchbar on some apps such as safari or photoshop, so making a setting to let specific apps overide the touchbar would be great

Hi,

Thanks for creating this, amazing utility! I was wondering if a good feature would be an option to highlight active app in the dock. Currently one can add the active app widget, but that takes up space which can be used for other widgets. How about an option to highlight the currently active app on the dock icons itself (for example, with a gray background)?

Thanks

Many users like myself use their machines as a desktop replacement as well as a portable. It would be nice to see an option when the machine is on battery power, and the user goes to the advance page and chooses to hide the dock, a tick box below that option appears which is titled something like "Automatically switch this setting depending on wether the machine is woken or started in clamshell mode". A simple description of this toggle could be "This option automatically toggles the "Show/Hide" dock feature depending on wether you have the lid open or closed while using the machine, for example, when using an external display with the lid closed"

Ticking the option would cause Energybar to do a check when the machine is booted or woken to see if the lid is closed, and an external display is connected. If so it automatically displays the dock. If the lid is open, it hides the dock, as usually the user is using both of the screens and the internal keyboard, or simply using it as a laptop away from their external monitor. It would not switch the dock back off until it senses the machine is opened with no external gpu or display connected.

I love the app, and a simple command space, and typing en + enter will bring up the energy bar app to change the setting without having to open the lid when I come home and connect it to my egpu, but it seems like a good feature to have for desktop users who often take their notebooks with them to other rooms, or away from home.

app icon tap will show,
then tap again will hide.

Example: When having spotlight opened, pressing esc does not exit spotlight. Not limited to this scenario.

When I adjust the volume, I do not have the habit of tapping the cross, so the view stays open. It might be cool if, after x seconds, it closed by itself.

Thanks for the nice Touch Bar solution!

Everything works except "now playing" widget. It does pause/play, but it doesn't react to taps. Do you know what can be the reason?

How can I change the brackground lightning for the keyboard? there´s no manually changing possible for the keyboard anymore. Brightness can only be changed for the display.

Version 1.3

Basically, the toucher is disabled when in Exposé. This is a bit annoying as it means the escape key is does not function.