Mac & iOS Apps Solo
Şerit
A Touch Bar that stays put
Şerit is Turkish for "strip". For Intel and Apple Silicon MacBook Pros.
Install
brew install alparslansemiz/tap/serit All projects
- Section
- Mac & iOS Apps
- Context
- Solo
- Stack
- Swift · AppKit
- Status
- Active
- Stop on the route
- The Alps
The story
I used Pock on my MacBook Pro, and it kept leaving the Touch Bar blank. So I wrote my own.
Şerit shows my open apps with notification badges, what's playing (YouTube Music too), volume and brightness sliders, a screenshot key, the weather, the battery, my next event and the time. When a browser or VS Code is in front, it adds keys for that app.
macOS quietly takes the Touch Bar back when you switch apps, wake the Mac, unlock the screen, change Spaces, or when TouchBarServer restarts. Şerit listens for all of these and puts itself back. It is one fixed-width piece, so when space runs short things scroll or shorten instead of disappearing.