[enhancement?] distinct bar color per display about sketchybar HOT 4 CLOSED

...and will you look at that <3

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Why do always start reading the docs after writing a question?

I could probably get something to work using this. However, I think it's not possible without duplicating my code base and changing every mention of sketchybar to secondary_bar (or something), which is less than ideal for maintenance.

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There are a number of ways you could achieve what you would like to have.

I think the simplest would be to use the bracket special item:
With it you can connect two arbitrary items with a common background, i.e.
adding this after all other items have been added will fill the gap between them

sketchybar --add item left_anchor left \
           --set left_anchor width=0 display=1 \
           --add item right_anchor right \
           --set right_anchor width=0 display=1 \
           --add bracket gap_fill left_anchor right_anchor \
           --set gap_fill background.color=0xff00ff00

If instead you add this before adding any other items, you will end up with this:

As you can see, these items are only displayed on display 1, so you can do the same for any other displays you would like to have this colored bar appear on and change the color of the respective bracket accordingly.

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That's really clever! Thanks once more for such a fast answer, it's really appreciated!

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