Nanobar

~90 lines of Rust. A minimal macOS menu bar manager.

No Bartender, no Ice, no accessibility permissions, no Screen Recording permissions.

How it works

Creates an invisible NSStatusItem pusher. On click, it expands to 10000pt, pushing icons to its left off-screen. Same native technique as Bartender/Ice — no private APIs, no SIP.

Install

Download (recommended)

From GitHub Releases:

# Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)
curl -sL https://github.com/yansircc/nanobar/releases/latest/download/nanobar-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv nanobar /usr/local/bin/

# Intel Mac
curl -sL https://github.com/yansircc/nanobar/releases/latest/download/nanobar-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv nanobar /usr/local/bin/

From source

cargo install nanobar

Usage

nanobar

Runs in the background automatically. A › separator appears in the menu bar.

• ⌘+Drag › to adjust the separator position
• Left-click › to hide icons to its left (becomes ‹), click again to restore
• Right-click → Quit

Auto-start at login

cat > ~/Library/LaunchAgents/nanobar.plist << EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0"><dict>
<key>Label</key><string>nanobar</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key><array><string>$(which nanobar)</string></array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key><true/>
</dict></plist>
EOF

Remove auto-start

rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/nanobar.plist

License

MIT