AnyBar is a small indicator for your menubar that does one simple thing: it displays color dot. What color means is up to you. When to change color is also up to you.
Version 0.1.3:
Or using Homebrew-cask:
brew cask install anybar
AnyBar is controlled via UDP port (1738 by default). Send it a message and it will change a color:
echo -n "black" | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738
Following commands change color:
white
red
orange
yellow
green
cyan
blue
purple
black
question
exclamation
And one special command forces AnyBar to quit: quit
Bash alias:
$ function anybar { echo -n $1 | nc -4u -w0 localhost ${2:-1738}; }
$ anybar red
$ anybar green 1739
Go:
Node:
PHP:
Java:
Python:
Ruby:
AppleScript:
tell application "AnyBar" to set image name to "blue"
tell application "AnyBar" to set current to get image name as Unicode text
display notification current
- Webpack build status plugin roman01la/anybar-webpack
- boot-clj task tonsky/boot-anybar
You can run several instances of AnyBar as long as they listen on different ports. Use ANYBAR_PORT
environment variable to change port and open -n
to run several instances:
ANYBAR_PORT=1738 open -n ./AnyBar.app
ANYBAR_PORT=1739 open -n ./AnyBar.app
ANYBAR_PORT=1740 open -n ./AnyBar.app
AnyBar can use user-local images if you put them under ~/.AnyBar
. E.g. if you have ~/.AnyBar/square@2x.png
present, send square
to 1738 and it will be displayed. Images should be 19×19px (or twice that for retina).
- Ubuntu Unity limpbrains/somebar
- AppleScript support (PR #8, thx Oleg Kertanov)
- Dark mode support. In dark mode AnyBar will first check for
<image>_alt@2x.png
or<image>_alt.png
image first, then falls back to<image>.png
- Support for Mavericks actually works
- Support for Mavericks (PR #2, thx Oleg Kertanov)
- Support for custom images via ~/.AnyBar (PR #1, thx Paul Boschmann)
Copyright © 2015 Nikita Prokopov
Licensed under Eclipse Public License (see LICENSE).