Discussed in #31

Add option for flat bar

Steps:

• In Displayer.swift:setThickness( ... ) add option to change barView.bar.progressLayer.cornerRadius = thickness/2 to barView.bar.progressLayer.cornerRadius = 0
• Add option in settings
• Add to UserDefaults

Result:

Hi.
Wherever I chose to put the HUDs, it seems they are a little too close to the edges (see screenshot). The worst is on the top, it's almost completely hidden by the menubar.

Whenever the display brightness changes from 0 to another value, the HUD disappears. This is usually not visible, but it definitely is while using a second monitor as the main display.

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Too much stuff going in the preferences window, chaotic, not nice.

Describe the solution you'd like

Something that doesn't hurt when I look at it

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Anything else?

No response

Previous bug is partially solved in this version: the settings are saved after a relaunch, except for the "launch at login" one. :)

• Check if "continuous check" is useful on Macs with Touch Bar only
• If so, SlimHUD should recognise on its own if the device has a Touch Bar, and enable / disable "continuous check" on its own. Should re-do check each time the display settings change (possibly MacBook with Touch Bar connected / disconnected)
• Option in settings could be removed (can't think of situation where it could be still useful / maybe when changing volume with software?)
• Should still be possible to activate, for ui tests to work

Great work on SlimHUD. I absolutely love it and appreciate the hard work you've put into it. It's unfortunate that Apple has changed its security approach, causing the issues you're currently dealing with. That being said, I've been thinking a bit about workarounds and thought I'd share an idea I had.

When installing MacForge on my Mac on Big Sur, I looked at how the plugins were injected into the OS. Could it be possible to do something along those lines with SlimHUD to override the current brightness, volume, and other HUDs? I'm not sure how relevant this is to a solution but figured it couldn't hurt to share.

Thanks again for all your hard work, looking forward to updates!

Hey, @AlexPerathoner great work on this! I have it installed, and I'm trying to remove the regular HUDs from apple, but I'm having issues with step 5 in the README. Can you explain what step 5 does and what sudo mount -uw /; killall Finder means?

I haven't been able to find any documentation about sudo mount -uw online and would like to make sure what I am doing is safe. Can you share any info with me?

Great work again. I absolutely love this app!

In Settings clicking on the (?) button opens a new help panel, above the one already there, which doesn't get deallocated from memory

Most of the infos there are out of date

I think it is not "crsutil disable / enable" its "csrutil disable / enable"

To see the Bars by changing the Brightness manually is a good thing. But the Mac change the Display and Keyboard Brightness by itself. In this Situation the Bar is very disruptive at working on Mac. An option to disable the Bar by automatic changes would improve the Functionality.

[Nib Loading] Could not connect action, target class SlimHUD.SettingsViewController does not respond to -restartButton:

• Is this still needed at all?

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Describe the bug

It's just displaced!!
Over 200, all's fine, but if i set the size too low, the icons and bars disappear partialy as far as i decrease.
PS excuse my poor english, french here.

Steps to reproduce

settings position size

Expected behavior

It should be visible completely

Anything else?

No response

Environment Information (please complete the following information)

- macOS version: 12.5
- Mac model: Macbook Air
- Monitor(s): internal
- Apple Silicon/M2 (yes or no): Yes

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External monitors whose brightness can't be changed directly from the OS aren't recognised by SlimHUD. Changing their brightness doesn't show the HUD.

Describe the solution you'd like

Use the implementation used in

• MonitorControl to retrieve the brightness
• https://github.com/alin23/Lunar

should work for volume, too

Describe alternatives you've considered

Don't do anything

Anything else?

No response

• NSApplication.shared.setActivationPolicy(.accessory) in applicationDidFinishLaunching
• Remove LSUIElement from info.plist
• NSApplication.shared.setActivationPolicy(.regular) after NSApp.activate(ignoringOtherApps: true) (e.g when showing settings window)
• override cmd + q to close window and go to accessory activation policy again
• go to accessory activation policy again also if all windows got closed
• optional: show message once telling user that app won't quit but will continue running in the background
• cmd + w should only close the frontmost window, and go to accessory only if there are no other windows open

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• Updated SlimHUD to the latest version (if applicable)

Describe the bug

It stay white with, it seems, an opacity reduced...
macOS 12.5 MacBookAir M2

Steps to reproduce

Settings Style Icons

Expected behavior

The color have to be changed

Anything else?

No response

Environment Information (please complete the following information)

- macOS version: 12.5
- Mac model: macbook air
- Monitor(s): integrated
- Apple Silicon/M2 (yes or no): Yes

Screenshots in ./Screens are too big (webpage and readme load slowly and repo folder is too big), should be compressed

Hey there!

Thanks so much for working hard on this once again. Apologies for the sudden blast of issues here and there, but this one is more of a suggestion than a bug report!

I'd like to suggest a feature where the opacity of the shadow cast by the bars can be varied (perhaps by using a slider?); this may allow for greater customisability when modifying the look. I tried to play around in a clone, and I believe it's quite feasible (although I'm still mostly tinkering here and there).

I hope you'll be able to take a look at this and hopefully implement this as a feature! Many thanks for your hard work. 👍

It is possible to stop the system volume/brightness overlays by suspending OSDUIHelper. This could allow you to use the app without disabling SIP. To suspend the process in Swift, you could use

let task = Process()
task.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/usr/bin/killall")
task.arguments = ["-STOP", "OSDUIHelper"]
try? task.run()

at the beginning of applicationDidFinishLaunching.

• create new branch develop
• new MRs should default to develop
• MRs to master should trigger a new release

• check if it's possible to create an automated release at all

• Initial size of HUDs in settings is 0x0, which makes the bar invisible.
• Animations, shadows and icons should also be enabled

• Many files are definitely too big
• Many files contain functions that should be in other classes
• Many functions use magic numbers

Hello, any chance to run it on 10.13.6 osx?

Hi,
The brightness bar doesn't work on my machine (OSX 12.0.1, M1 pro 2020 MBP). It always shows full brightness no matter what and doesn't update.

Thanks for the app, it's much better than OSX's default UI.

Hi!
The app itself seems to work perfectly on Big Sur.
But when I try to hide default macOS HUD in Terminal (after having disabled SIP then reboot) I get this:

mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Permission denied
mount: / failed with 66

Then when I try to delete the text in the plist file, it doesn't save the edit.
Is it me doing it wrong or are there new restrictions with Big Sur?

Hey! Just tried out the app and love the way it looks and feels - my only reservation is that the screen brightness bar is always stuck at 100%. It doesn't move, no matter where I put it on screen or set my brightness to.
Is there a fix for that that I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance for any help!

I have 2 issues with this app, and because of them I am unable to use it.
The first issue is that the HUD is not working correctly for keyboard lights in the newest app version. When I increase or decrease the lights on keyboard the HUD bar just stays at 100%.
Here is the image:

This doesn't happen on older versions like the version 3.0.0:

My second issue is that the automatic screen brightness, and the automatic keyboard light are activating the custom HUD. I can see the HUD when my macbook changes the brightness automatically every time there is some change in the light in the room. I can also see the keyboard HUD appear regardless of it actually not working in the newer versions.
You practically have only one bug to fix, you can just take the app v3.0.0 (since it is working for keyboard lights) and resolve the automatic brightness issue.

If there were no these two bugs, I would use this app without any problems.

Hello there!

First off, let me begin by saying my thanks for your work in this project. It indeed has made the UI of the controls much more cool-looking and natural!

I'd like to report this bug, albeit minor (non-fatal in any sense); the sliders seem to appear randomly when I'm doing work, and the values change to random values as well. However, I'm still able to adjust any of the three (screen brightness, keyboard brightness, and volume brightness) options and the slider will obey to that. The following is a quick video of what I mean:

Do note that in the video above, I wasn't interacting with any of the three controls in any way. I hope this helps, and in the meantime I'll try to find a pattern to this occurence, too! Thanks!

Hi!
I updated to the 1.1.1 version but it seems that the 'launch at login' option isn't fixed (or is there something else to do than just replace with the new app file?)

Currently just one example test present, so add more tests

#34

When having two screens

• one built in
• one external, which is main screen (with the menu bar)

Clicking on brightness keys changes the brightness of the built in display, but SlimHUD only tries to retrieve the brightness of the main screen, so it doesn't detect any change and the HUD doesn't appear.

This is currently expected behaviour, as we are using the info of the display on which the HUD is displayed. But it could be quite confusing, so maybe change in the future

I manage to build it by disabling lastCheckForUpdatesOutlet due deprecated sparkle package.

Sorry, I have never used sparkle to help you to port over😅

In the preferences, when you try to set a specific colour to the icon of the keyboard, after exiting and re-booting the app or just closing the preferences and re-opening, the colour of the icon for keyboard brightness would automatically be set to white.

Hi! Just noticed a bug on my MacBook Pro. The keyboard bar is not moving when I'm changing backlight intensity. It stays in the middle.

• new workflow triggered with /pre-release
• should update appcast-pre.xml
• find way in Sparkle tool to mark version as pre-release
• add option in app to download pre-releases, too
• shouldn't close PR to master, unlike /release

My HUD is still showing alongside SlimHUD's bar.

@dmndrz wrote
And I noticed that when I launch the app, the thickness setting did stay at the number I chose, but it doesn't appear on the bars, I have to click on the slider to make it "check" the right thickness.

Not working

Still working, could be removed anytime

In the readme there are still references to the SIP installation method, which are now only confusing

• too big

I think it would be a great addition to be able to change icons color and/or opacity, as we can do for the bars. According to the wallpaper (specifically with the Catalina one throughout the day), sometimes the icon becomes invisible. And it would be even better if it changed automatically with light and dark modes.

Hey! Thanks for creating SlimHUD once again.

I'm experiencing a bug where the bars don't appear after the Mac starts up. While the SlimHUD app is present in the menu bar, the actual bars (screen brightness, volume, and keyboard brightness) aren't.

This issue may be caused by other factors if this issue can't be replicated elsewhere. I'm currently running macOS 10.15.6 (Catalina), but this issue seems to persist even before I updated (in macOS 10.15.5). I'll try to investigate this issue on my end as well. Hope this helps!

below is crash log

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Describe the bug

I suspect that SlimHUD, due to having an .accessory activationPolicy, or for being a mainly background app (perhaps it's a system limitation for any app), doesn't get the key press events as soon as they happen, but a bit later. Sometimes even multiple seconds after they happened.

This means that if "Continuous check" isn't checked, the bars could appear with quite a lot of delay.

Steps to reproduce

1. Deactivate "continuous check"
2. Use some other apps for some time
3. Press volume buttons

Expected behavior

Hud should appear (and be updated, if already visible) as soon as the button is pressed

Anything else?

• Check if it's a system limitation
• If so, use only continuous check
• remove KeyPressObserver, unnecessary

Environment Information (please complete the following information)

- macOS version: 12.0
- Mac model: MBP 13 2018
- Monitor(s): Dell 27"
- Apple Silicon/M1 (yes or no): no

Running

Compiling

• won't fix, only use latest version of Xcode and macOS to compile and run UI Tests

Hello there!

Thanks for creating this awesome product once again.

I've recently been facing a small issue where the position of my bars doesn't persist where they should be across reboots - including shutdowns and restarts.

As an example, before restarting, I've set the position to 'Bottom', and indeed the app has responded as it should. However, upon restarting, this value defaults back to 'Left' again, and the bar shows up on the left.

If I'm honest, though, I haven't done a lot of work to see what was causing this. I have tried changing the position from 'Left' to 'Bottom' and then clicking 'Restart' beside it; all it does it restart the app itself back to the default 'Left'. Side question, is this ('Restart' button restarting and defaulting the app back to as it was) meant to happen as well?

I hope this issue helps. Thanks!