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Plugin idea: Hide date/time in menu bar while recording

See original GitHub issue

This should be possible to implement when https://github.com/wulkano/kap/pull/804 is merged.

Idea from https://twitter.com/rauschma/status/1234155670036979712

I debugged the system preferences and discovered a way to hide the clock programmatically:

Hide:

defaults write com.apple.systemuiserver "menuExtras" "(\"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu\", \"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu\")" && killall SystemUIServer

Show:

defaults write com.apple.systemuiserver "menuExtras" "(\"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu\", \"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu\", \"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu\")" && killall SystemUIServer

Actually, “Show” is not entirely correct. We need to first read what menuExtras contains before disabling and then restore that.

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Created 3 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments

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karaggeorgecommented, Mar 26, 2020

https://github.com/karaggeorge/kap-hide-clock

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sindresorhuscommented, Mar 24, 2020

@karaggeorge Two reasons:

You don’t want to show that you recorded something at 4 AM.
If you edit a lot and leave out parts, the time will jump, which can be distracting.

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