Adjust menubar icon space padding

[0xRake]

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Description

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Currently, macOS has a built-in "status-spacing"(or "whitespace") for applications that also have a top-menu icon. Users can tweak the spacing value within the top-menu. This is especially handy for mbpro users who are running multiple applications and are limited to the buit-in display - who's notch interferes with the top-menu icons.

Additional Parameters

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• Folder: MenuBar

• Command:

# Adjust mbpro notch whitespace to accomodate more than 13 app in top menu
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 4
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 4

• Argument type: int

Examples:

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1. Modify parameters

# modification 

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 4
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 4

2. Reset to default

# reset to default

defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing