ChangeMenuBarColor
Simple utility to change macOS Big Sur and Monterey menu bar color by appending a solid color or gradient rectangle to a wallpaper image (by igorkulman)
DownloadFullInstaller
macOS application written in SwiftUI that downloads installer pkgs for the Install macOS Big Sur application. (by scriptingosx)
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| ChangeMenuBarColor | DownloadFullInstaller | |
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| 15 | 7 | |
| 952 | 763 | |
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| 3.3 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | 9 months ago | |
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| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ChangeMenuBarColor
Posts with mentions or reviews of ChangeMenuBarColor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-24.
- is there a way to change the color from the top menu bar?
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how to change color of the upper strip
ChangeMenuBarColor on Github. A free Terminal command to add a color behind the menu bar
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Should I allow "Apple Inc." in security and privacy?
Nope. I had just installled a Mullvad vpn update and followed instructions on this GitHub page to change the menu bar color, but that’s the extent of any possible installations.
- MacOs Monterrey: 'Do Not Disturb' dims clock
- Whats the best program to change menu bar color?
- Any way to change menu bar to look like how it was in High Sierra/previous versions on M1 Macs?
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How to change menubar for notched MBPs to black?
I know there was an app ChangeMenuBarColor for Big Sur, but it doesn't work in Monterey and has no immediate plans to update it.
- Apple Says Notch is a 'Smart Way' to Give Users More Space for Content on New MacBook Pros
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I made an app to hide the Notch on the new MacBook Pro, called Forehead. It also allows you to round the screen corners if that’s your thing.
There is also another solution but surely this has not yet been tested on the new macs: https://github.com/igorkulman/ChangeMenuBarColor
DownloadFullInstaller
Posts with mentions or reviews of DownloadFullInstaller.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-09.
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Anyone else experiencing bugs after installing Ventura 13.3.1?
Try using this if it's having trouble downloading from System Preferences. It'll download a .pkg which extracts the Install macOS Ventura installer to your /Applications folder.
- How do I download macOS high Sierra installer application to revive an old Mac.
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Downgrade / Rollback to Earlier version of Monterey
I generally use Download Full Installer.app and make a USB install kinda like /u/Heteronymous said (you may need both KB docs).
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12.5.1 upgrade
Download Full Installer.app shows both releases. They’re visible on a new M2 and an older Intel MacBook, which is really a front end for “softwareupdate —fetch-full-installer” or —list-full-installers something like that, I forget exactly.
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Still possible to deploy specific versions of MacOS?
/u/howmanywhales heres a GUI app to download specific versions of macOS if you’d rather package/pre-stage an installer app with your MDM, just add the .pkg it downloads. https://github.com/scriptingosx/DownloadFullInstaller
- Patched Sur v1.01 (122) - Problem - Can anyone help?
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Any way to download Big Sur being on Monterey Beta?
Here is a fork of GibMacOS that has a GUI to make life easier: https://github.com/scriptingosx/DownloadFullInstaller/releases/download/v1.0/DownloadFullInstaller-v1.0.zip
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ChangeMenuBarColor and DownloadFullInstaller you can also consider the following projects:
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
SwiftUIX - An exhaustive expansion of the standard SwiftUI library.
hidden - An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
Mist - A Mac utility that automatically downloads macOS Firmwares / Installers.
MinimalClock - MinimalClock: a MacOS screen saver
macadmin-scripts - Scripts of possible interest to macOS admins
PermissionsSwiftUI - A SwiftUI package to beautifully display and handle permissions.
Patched-Sur - A simple, but powerful UI patcher for macOS Big Sur designed for everyone.
NativeTwitch - Native Twitch Player
url-image - AsyncImage before iOS 15. Lightweight, pure SwiftUI Image view, that displays an image downloaded from URL, with auxiliary views and local cache.
OpenAIKit - Swift Package for OpenAI's API
SDWebImageSwiftUI - SwiftUI Image loading and Animation framework powered by SDWebImage
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DownloadFullInstaller vs SwiftUIX
ChangeMenuBarColor vs hidden
DownloadFullInstaller vs Mist
ChangeMenuBarColor vs MinimalClock
DownloadFullInstaller vs macadmin-scripts
ChangeMenuBarColor vs PermissionsSwiftUI
DownloadFullInstaller vs Patched-Sur
ChangeMenuBarColor vs NativeTwitch
DownloadFullInstaller vs url-image
ChangeMenuBarColor vs OpenAIKit
DownloadFullInstaller vs SDWebImageSwiftUI