A beginner's ultimate guide to making a custom menu bar for your mac from scratch with SketchyBar. This video covers all of the essential concepts to building a custom menu bar with SketchyBar by going through everything I did to put together my own setup. I hope you enjoy it and find it helpful!
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-- Other Useful Links --
Man Page For date Command: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/date.1.html
Sketchybar Repo: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar
Sketchybar Docs: https://felixkratz.github.io/SketchyBar/
Sketchybar Color Picker: https://felixkratz.github.io/SketchyBar/config/tricks#color-picker
Sketchybar Setup Inspo: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar/discussions/47?sort=top
Sketchybar Plugins Inspo: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar/discussions/12?sort=top
⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:28 - Install Homebrew & Dependencies
03:27 - Hide Default MacOs Menu Bar
04:09 - Start Sketchybar
05:22 - Modify Yabai Or Rectangle Config
06:33 - Install VSCode
07:16 - Sketchybarrc Intro
08:53 - Setup colors.sh
11:57 - Install SF Pro & SF Symbols
13:37 - Add calendar item
21:28 - Add volume item
25:43 - Add battery item
28:22 - Add CPU item
30:33 - Install sketchybar-app-font
32:55 - Add front_app item
36:22 - Add spaces to the bar
39:56 - Add app icons to spaces
42:58 - Add media/music item
46:33 - Changing colorscheme & wallpaper
47:31 - Conclusion