Status Bar for the Mac.

spacebar is a status bar for ↗ yabai tiling window management.

A codesigned binary release of spacebar can be installed using Homebrew from the tap somdoron/formulae.

brew install somdoron/formulae/spacebar

Open System Preferences.app and navigate to Security & Privacy, then Privacy, then Accessibility. Click the lock icon at the bottom and enter your password to allow changes to the list. Starting with brew services start spacebar will prompt the user to allow spacebar accessibility permissions. Check the box next to spacebar to allow accessibility permissions.

To run space, simply start it:

brew services start spacebar

The per-user spacebar configuration file must be executable; it is just a shell script that's ran before spacebar launches. It must be placed at one of the following places (in order):

• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/spacebar/spacebarrc
• $HOME/.config/spacebar/spacebarrc
• $HOME/.spacebarrc

Create empty configuration file and make it executable:

touch ~/.config/spacebar/spacebarrc
chmod +x ~/.config/spacebar/spacebarrc

All of the configuration options can be changed at runtime as well.

Example configuration:

spacebar -m config status_bar_text_font         "Helvetica Neue:Bold:12.0"
spacebar -m config status_bar_icon_font         "Font Awesome 5:Regular:12.0"
spacebar -m config status_bar_background_color  0xff202020
spacebar -m config status_bar_foreground_color  0xffa8a8a8
spacebar -m config status_bar_space_icon_strip  I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
spacebar -m config status_bar_power_icon_strip   
spacebar -m config status_bar_space_icon        
spacebar -m config status_bar_clock_icon        

• Sample configuration files can be found in the ↗ examples directory. Refer to the ↗ documentation.

Add the following to your yabai configuration, so yabai won't draw over the status bar.

yabai -m config top_padding 26

In the case that something is not working as you're expecting, please make sure to take a look in the output and error log. To enable debug output make sure that your configuration file contains spacebar -m config debug_output on or that spacebar is launched with the --verbose flag. If you are running through brew services the log files can be found in the following directory:

# directory containing log files (HOMEBREW_PREFIX defaults to /usr/local unless you manually specified otherwise)
HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/log/spacebar/

# view the last lines of the error log 
tail -f /usr/local/var/log/spacebar/spacebar.err.log

# view the last lines of the debug log
tail -f /usr/local/var/log/spacebar/spacebar.out.log

brew services stop spacebar
brew upgrade spacebar
brew services start spacebar

Please read the below requirements carefully. Make sure you fulfil all of them before filing an issue.

Please also take note of the following caveats.

spacebar is licensed under the ↗ MIT License, a short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

Thanks to @koekeishiya for creating yabai.

Use at your own discretion. I take no responsibility if anything should happen to your machine while trying to install, test or otherwise use this software in any form.