Then there's window sizing and, if not for Keyboard Maestro, app launching via keyboard shortcuts.Īnyways, I occasionally miss the function keys, but what the Touch Bar can do now provides enough to offset that. Replacement for Bartender: BTT has an action for hiding the menu bar item to its left and theres a convenient trigger by double-clicking the menu bar. And I use a weird four-finger tapping gesture for mute and to lock my laptop ('rap' my fingers from left to right to mute, and from right to left to lock). three-finger up and down for brightness and shift + three fingers for volume if I'm too lazy to go for the touchbar. I have a few gestures configured for the trackpad. battery level with 'time-to-full-charge' indicator.īut even more useful are the swipe gestures I added: two-finger swipe anywhere turns the entire bar into a volume control, and a three-finger swipe does the same for brightness. People have shared awesome BetterTouchTool Touch Bar setups on our community platform, so. a custom date/time display that also shows the week number. BetterTouchTool lets you completely customize your Touch Bar.

Spotify widget that shows current track/album (with art) and controls. dock widget that shows open apps and allows me to switch quickly. BetterTouchTool Touch Bar followup: Zoom buttons Tweet Last week I posted my craziest Mac experiment in a while a script that handles adding and updating myriad BetterTouchTool Touch Bar (and menu bar) widgets. I found the Golden Chaos package to offer too much and instead just spent a bit of time setting things up to my liking, and now I couldn't do without the Touch Bar!

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