terminal needs to stay open for undot to work

[DaveFlashNL]

it seems terminal needs to stay open/active, is there another way to run this? preferably using a menu bar app to turn the function on/off when a user wants?

other than that, it works brilliantly, stupid dot finally gone when I don't want it in full screen

haha... if I read the script right, the dot is not gone but undot merely moves its position outside of the screen real-estate :_) Amazing!

[JayBrown]

You could probably execute

while :
do
     /usr/local/bin/undot
     sleep 1
done

as a shell script, and run that shell script with a macOS LaunchAgent, setting the agent to: run at load & always keep alive.

[DaveFlashNL]

ok

[DaveFlashNL]

I've since built two AppleScript apps, one to start undot and one to stop it and the bash background process, I'm in the process of refining them, at which point I will for this repo and include those scripts and apps

[JayBrown]

You could also create a shell script for xbar: https://github.com/matryer/xbar … that way you'd have undot with menu bar functionality.

[nicolasdanelon]

Gosh bless you m#ther f$#ker! thanks!

[Write]

I personally added this script in Preferences > Users > Login items

#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )"
nohup bash -c "while :; do $SCRIPT_DIR/undot/undot; sleep 1; done" </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

[taninke]

I personally added this script in Preferences > Users > Login items

#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )"
nohup bash -c "while :; do $SCRIPT_DIR/undot/undot; sleep 1; done" </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Stupid question, but how do I add a script to Login items?

[Write]

Create a file name yourscript.sh somewhere (I put mine in ~/Scripts), then in login items you can click the + arrow to add the shell script to be launch at login.
Don't forget to chmod +x yourscript.sh in a terminal to allow it to be executed.
Also sometimes .sh file are set to open with text editor by default, so you can also right-click yourscript.sh (or cmd + i), then click Get Info and set the file to actually be opened by the Terminal app.

The only downside to my script is that it'll show a terminal when first logging in after a boot for a very short time.

[shatteredsite]

I used the script with automator to create an app. Give the app accessibility privileges and set to startup on login. Works perfectly!

EDIT: Open app on startup doesn't work consistently for some reason. So I put the Automator app that runs the bash script in the dock and just open when I need to.

[s4y]

I've made a few changes so that:

1. Undot keeps running and hides the window right away.
2. Undot is a real application, so you can add it to your login items.

Give it a shot and let me know how it works! I'm going to close this bug, but feel free to keep commenting, and I'll reopen it if it doesn't resolve the issue.

[jamesf-hub]

thank you so much @s4y !!!