The region of a window or screen where drop down menus are displayed. The menu bar allows for easy access of an application's menus and commands.
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Remove file icon from toolbar
I don't know how the shortcut file icon got stuck on the toolbar
Any idea how to remove it?
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Need help with Applescript and clicking menu bar item
I'm trying to make an applescript for F.lux that clicks the menu item "Disable for an Hour" as indicated in screenshot one. The element path is indicated in screenshot two.
Here is my code thus far:
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FileMaker 6 and AppleScript: Deleting a Menu Item
I am trying to write an AppleScript to delete or at least disable certain menu items in FileMaker pro 6. My documentation indicates that it can be done, yet even the exact examples that they give, do ...
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How to customize Finder's Share menu?
Is there a way to add custom services to Finder's Share menu?
I have created an automator service to copy selected files to my Dropbox directory (similar to this).
I enabled this service in the ...
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Cannot remove DevonThink Pro from menu bar
I installed DEVONthink Pro, then uninstalled by removing the App from the Applications dir, but I can not get rid of the icon/menu in the menu bar.
I've removed every file anywhere that has the ...
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How do I prevent a menu extra from appearing at login?
Recently I reinstalled OS X 10.6.8 and afterwards I removed my DVD drive since it was no necessary. However, upon booting the 'eject' menu extra appears. Dragging it off does not help as it reappears ...
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Manage /etc/hosts from menu bar
Some years ago, I recall a menu bar application that would allow you to activate/de-activate host entries in /etc/hosts.
I can't seem to find it via google. Anyone have recommendations?
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OS X Mountain Lion shortcut menu
I just switched from a PC (Ubuntu 12.10) to a Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion). I'd like to know if there's a way to have a similar shortcut menu on the dock as I had on Ubuntu's sidebar? Basically I made ...
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open iTerm drop down console on different screen
I use iTerm since a few days, and when i press my hotkey, it'll drop down nicely, from top of the screen, but ... on the wrong one.
I have a macbook pro with mountain lion, and i connect it to a 24" ...
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How to get menu bar on both of my screens? [duplicate]
Is there anyway to get my menu bar to show up on both of my screens? I don't want to use display mirroring, I just want the menu to be mirrored on both screens.
I'm using 10.6, but if this is a ...
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Exporting a Windows Group in terminal makes redundantly named Windows Groups
OK, so I've made several Windows Groups and experimented making some open with an automatically executing command (and some that don't). My problem is that once I store such a 'group' as a clickable ...
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Reload menu bar from terminal (not SystemUIServer)
I am looking for a way to reload/refresh the "apple symbol" menu in the upper left corner from the terminal.
Searching for ways to refresh the menu has only led me to find the command
killall -KILL ...
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Change American keyboard icon in menu bar to black and white
How can I change the American keyboard icon my menu bar from a colored icon to black and white?
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Why does the main OS menu bar disappear when I am in Safari?
I am running iOS 10.8.2 on a MacBook Pro with a 27" Cinema Display. Just this week I noticed that when I switch over to Safari the Main Menu Bar (not the Safari menu bar) disappears. I have checked to ...
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Safari 6 “Debug” menu: explain choices?
There are certain menu items in the Safari 6 Debug menu which I want to understand.
First, I’ll list the menu items; then, the information I would like to know for each of the items; and finally, ...
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Applications in the Menu Bar & The Ability to choose which are Active upon startup?
Are the applications located towards the right side of the menu bar next to system icons automatically active upon boot up of an apple mac. What decides which apps sit there & is there a way to ...
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Show unshortened day of the week @ OSX menu bar
Currently clock menu bar item shortens day of the week like Sat instead of Saturday.
Is there any way to change this without additional software?
(tried regional formats but it ignores any custom ...
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After reboot system time changed and menu bar items changed position
I'm new to Apple Mac OS, just Bought a new Macbook pro 13" Mid 2012 a month ago. Yesterday everything was good and working fine. I shut down system and went to sleep. Today when I Started my system I ...
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Make application “active” while on another desktop
Is there a way I can change the current menubar to an active application while on another desktop ?
Example :
Safari running on desktop 1
While on desktop 2, activate safari so that the menubar ...
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How to get rid of a second CrashPlan icon in the menu bar?
Everytime I restart, I get two crashplan icons in the menu bar.
If I close one of them, the other still remains.
How can I get rid of one of them?
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Make the Menu Bar never show while in Full Screen
Pretty much every application I use in fullscreen, including Firefox, MacVim and the Terminal, has tabs on the top of the screen. The problem is, when I move my mouse to reach the tabs I acidentally ...
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Is there a way to reorder the Mac Menu Bar? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Change the location of an icon in the menu bar?
The title is sort of self-explanatory. I wanted to group some icons into a more logical and useful layout. This question ...
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How to access user installed menubar icons with the keyboard?
I understand that Ctrl + F8 can be used to access the built-in Apple menu and Ctrl + F2 can be used to access program menus (e.g. this existing answer).
However, I have a bunch of user-installed ...
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Change date in menu bar from “DAY MONTH” to “MONTH DAY”?
The date in my menu bar is in "DAY MONTH" format (e.g. 23 Oct) but I want it in "MONTH DAY" format (e.g. Oct 23). How can I do this? Also, it shows "Tue" as the week day when I'd prefer seeing it in ...
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Hide application menu bar
How can I hide the Menu Bar? I am on mac Osx moutain Lion (10.8)
Yes, one can full-screen an app, but it does not solve my problem. Here are 2 scenarios to explain my problem:
Scenario 1:
I am ...
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Disable Google Play Music menu bar icon
Is there a way to disable the Google Play Music icon in the menu bar, while keeping Google Play Music running?
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Set the date and time in menubar to be in a specific format
I want the menubar to display the date and time in the menubar as follows:
2012-10-03 09.12.14
which translates into Year-Month-Day 24hr.min.second
What I've tried:
Gone into System Preferences ...
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How to remove your name from the menu bar after 10.7.5 update?
After the 10.7.5 update to Lion, I'm getting my name to appear in the menu bar. I don't particularly like it there. Any way to remove it?
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Stop menu closing when clicked
Im a new OSX user, and coming from Windows if I click a menu item which has a child popout menu I expect it to open the child not close the whole menu.
This seems to be system wide This seems to be ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to gain access to the main menu navigation of OS X (i.e. to navigate w/ arrow keys)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make Apple menu shortcut keys work more like Windows?
I'd like to hit a keyboard shortcut to gain access to the menu navigation of OS X, where the Apple menu ...
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How to make the Notification Center menu icon glow, (like Twitter does) when notifications are present?
Notification Center is pretty great, however, it's very annoying that I have to click the menubar icon or make a gesture to actually open the notification pane.
How to make the Notification Center ...
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How to get back the missing monitor option in Mountain Lion's menubar?
When plugging in an external monitor on every OS X < 10.8 you could set the monitor options to show up on the menu bar.
How do I get this option on Mountain Lion?
I connect a DVI monitor via the ...
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Change Menu-Bar Font?
Is there a way to change the menu bar font/font color/font size?
I don't want to change the menu bar color, just the font.
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Removing spotlight icon from menu bar persistently
I tried to remove spotlight form the menu bar with the following trick:
sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
killall SystemUIServer
Unfortunately if I ...
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How to always show “Library” in the Finder its “Go”-Menu without holding a modifier key?
I often use the "Library" folder in my home folder ~/.
The Library folder there (~/Library/) is shown (unhidden), and that is not the question.
I would like to also always show the menu point ...
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How do I get rid of the clock in the menu-bar in Mac OSX?
I want to get rid of the clock menu display in Mac OSX. How can this be done?
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Can I make Option+click on the Volume icon list all AirPlay output devices?
I would like to make Option+clicking the Volume icon in the menu bar show me all AirPlay output devices. Right now, only "Internal Speakers" and the last used AirPlay device are listed, so either only ...
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Hide username from menu bar in Mountain Lion
In Mountain Lion, my full name is displayed at the right of the menu bar (between the time and the search icon, to be specific). As it takes a lot of space, I was wondering if there is a way to hide ...
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How to hide notification center button in Mountain Lion?
I am using Mountain Lion.
The only advantage (for me) over the gesture is that Option + clicking the button enables/disables showing alerts and banners (toggles the switch in the notifications ...
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I am missing the option to see the remaining battery life as time in the menubar?
In previous versions of OS X the battery indicator in the menubar included options to show the remaining battery life as percentage or time (or nothing).
In Mountain Lion, there's only an option to ...
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OS X menu bar missing after application crash
The entire menu bar (the white one, that holds the Apple menu, etc) has vanished on my iMac. In this instance, I think it went away when VLC crashed, but it's happened in other situations as well.
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Menu bar dictionary search
Is there an app that allows me to search the mac dictionary from the menu bar? I thought spotlight was able to do this but it doesn't seem to work (in Lion) (I noticed Dictionary isn't even listed in ...
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Need menu bar app to show output of Terminal command every 60s
I need a menu-bar app* which will show me the output of a terminal command, and run that Terminal command every 60s or so.
Or I need a menu-bar app which will read the contents of a file, and update ...
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Is there a way to access the menubar icons using the keyboard?
I know how to use the menu items using only the keyboard. Is there anyway I can access the icons in the top right as well?
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How do I create a menu shortcut which involves the delete key?
In Addressbook I want to create a keyboard shortcut for the Menu entry Delete Group using the key combination option-command-delete.
So I went to System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Keyboard ...
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How do I move a third-party application's menulet from one location to another in the menu bar?
I bought QuickCal 3 from the Mac App Store recently. Now, when I boot my Mac, the QuickCal menu icon shows on the menu bar, and where it wants to by default, I suppose.
Since QuickCal has the ...
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Menu bar icons get hidden by long menu bar items
Sometimes on my Macbook Pro when I have a lot of icons in the menu bar, if I start an application which has a lot of menu items, some of these icons get automatically obscured by the menu items.
For ...
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Change mac menu bar color
Is there a way to change the color or appearance of the mac menu bar from the standard gray?
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Can I move the top menu bar?
As a Windows/Fedora/Mac/Ubuntu user, the menubar at the top of the screen has always bugged me. It doesn't go away and you can't move it. I've tried dragging it away in vain several times. It would ...
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None of my apps are keeping a list of recent documents?
Example:
If I open an image in Preview, the "File/Open Recent" menu lists the name of the file.
If I then close the file, but still leave Preview running, the "Open Recent" menu still lists the file.
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