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Currently there are the components (more details in the corresponding sections below):</p><ul><li><em>graph</em>: showing a graph,</li><li><em>space</em>: representing a mission control space</li><li><em>bracket</em>: brackets together other items</li><li><em>alias</em>: an alias of a menu bar item from the macOS bar</li></ul><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="data-graph----draws-an-arbitrary-graph-into-the-bar">Data Graph -- Draws an arbitrary graph into the bar<aclass="hash-link"href="#data-graph----draws-an-arbitrary-graph-into-the-bar"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --add graph </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">position</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">width </span><spanclass="token keyword"style="font-style:italic">in</span><spanclass="token plain"> points</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>Additional graph properties:</p><table><thead><tr><thalign="center"><property<!---->></th><thalign="center"><value<!---->></th><thalign="center">default</th><th>description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><tdalign="center"><code>graph.color</code></td><tdalign="center"><code><argb_hex></code></td><tdalign="center"><code>0xcccccc</code></td><td>Color of the graph line</td></tr><tr><tdalign="center"><code>graph.fill_color</code></td><tdalign="center"><code><argb_hex></code></td><tdalign="center"><code>0xcccccc</code></td><td>Fill color of the graph</td></tr><tr><tdalign="center"><code>graph.line_width</code></td><tdalign="center"><code><float></code></td><tdalign="center"><code>0.5</code></td><td>Width of the line in points</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Push data points into the graph via:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --push </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">data point</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="00242
if you set a background for the graph item and set a height for it, the graph
will draw inside of the background. With a background enabled, the graph can
also be moved via a <code>y_offset</code>, e.g.:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --set </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">graph name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"> background.color</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token plain">0xff00ff00 background.height</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">20</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token assign-left variable"style="color:rgb(191, 199, 213)">y_offset</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">2</span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="space----associate-mission-control-spaces-with-an-item">Space -- Associate mission control spaces with an item<aclass="hash-link"href="#space----associate-mission-control-spaces-with-an-item"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --add space </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">position</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>The space component overrides the definition of the following properties and they must be set to correctly associate a mission control space with this item:</p><ul><li><em>associated_space</em>: Which space this item represents</li><li><em>associated_display</em>: On which display the <em>associated_space</em> is shown.</li></ul><p>The space component has additional variables available in <em>scripts</em>:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="tokenvariab
<code>false</code> if the associated space is not selected, while
<code>$SID</code> holds the space id and <code>$DID</code> the display id.</p><p>By default the space component invokes the following script:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --set </span><spanclass="token variable"style="color:rgb(191, 199, 213)">$NAME</span><spanclass="token plain"> icon.highlight</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token variable"style="color:rgb(191, 199, 213)">$SELECTED</span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>which you can freely configure to your liking by supplying a different script
to the space component:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --set </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token assign-left variable"style="color:rgb(191, 199, 213)">script</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">script/path</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>For performance reasons the space script is only run on a change in the
<code>$SELECTED</code> variable, i.e. if the associated space has become active
or has resigned being active.</p><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="item-bracket----group-items-in-eg-colored-sections">Item Bracket -- Group Items in e.g. colored sections<aclass="hash-link"href="#item-bracket----group-items-in-eg-colored-sections"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>It is possible to bracket together items via the command (see <ahref="https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar/discussions/12#discussioncomment-1455842"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">this</a> discussion for an example):</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --add bracket </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">first item name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">..</span><spanclass="token plain">. </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">n-th item name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>The first item must always be the one listed earliest in the config. It is now possible to
E.g., if I wanted a colored background around <em>all</em> my space components (which are named <em>code</em>, <em>writing</em>, <em>reading</em> and <em>entertainment</em>) I would set it up like this:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --add bracket primary_spaces code </span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">\</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> writing </span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">\</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> reading </span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">\</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> entertainment </span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">\</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">\</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> --set primary_spaces background.color</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token plain">0xffffffff </span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">\</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> background.corner_radius</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">4</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">\</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> background.height</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">20</span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>this draws a white background below all my space components.</p><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="item-alias----mirror-items-of-the-original-macos-status-bar-into-sketchybar">Item Alias -- Mirror items of the original macOS status bar into sketchybar<aclass="hash-link"href="#item-alias----mirror-items-of-the-original-macos-status-bar-into-sketchybar"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>It is possible to create an alias for default menu bar items
(such as MeetingBar, etc.) in sketchybar. The default menu bar can be set to
autohide and this should still work.</p><p>To create an alias of a default menu bar item use the following syntax:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --add </span><spanclass="token builtin class-name"style="color:rgb(255, 203, 107)">alias</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">application_name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">position</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>this operation requires <em>screen capture permissions</em>, which should be granted
in the system preferences.</p><p>This will put the default macOS menu bar item into sketchybar. If an
application has multiple menu bar widgets the command can be overloaded by
providing a <em>window_owner</em> and a <em>window_name</em></p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --add </span><spanclass="token builtin class-name"style="color:rgb(255, 203, 107)">alias</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token string"style="color:rgb(195, 232, 141)">"<window_owner>,<window_name>"</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">position</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>this way the default system items can also be aliased in sketchybar as well,
e.g.:</p><ul><li>"Control Center,Bluetooth"</li><li>"Control Center,WiFi"</li><li>...</li></ul><p>Or the individual widgets of <ahref="https://github.com/exelban/stats"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Stats</a>:</p><ul><li>"Stats,CPU_Mini"</li><li>etc...</li></ul><p>All further macOS menu bar items currently available on your system can be
found via the command</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --query default_menu_items</span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>where all items with their respective owner and name are listed.</p><p>You can override the color of an alias via the property:</p><divclass="codeBlockContainer_I0IT language-bash theme-code-block"><divclass="codeBlockContent_wNvx"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock_jd64 thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_mRuA"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">sketchybar --set </span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">name</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><spanclass="token plain"> alias.color</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">=</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)"><</span><spanclass="token plain">argb_hex</span><spanclass="token operator"style="color:rgb(137, 221, 255)">></span><br></span></code></pre><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="copyButton_eDfN clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div><p>Aliases currently are not clickable but can be modified with all the options
available for simple items.</p></div></article><navclass="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg"aria-label="Docs pages navigation"><divclass="pagination-nav__item"><aclass="pagination-nav__link"href="/SketchyBar/config/items"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Previous</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">Item Properties</div></a></div><divclass="pagination-nav__item pagination-nav__item--next"><aclass="pagination-nav__link"href="/SketchyBar/config/popups"><divclass="pagination-nav__sublabel">Next</div><divclass="pagination-nav__label">Popup Menus</div></a></div></nav></div></div><divclass="col col--3"><divclass="tableOfContents_cNA8 thin-scrollbar theme-doc-toc-desktop"><ulclass="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><ahref="#components----special-items-with-special-properties"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Components -- Special Items with special properties</a><ul><li><ahref="#data-graph----draws-an-arbitrary-graph-into-the-bar"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Data Graph -- Draws an arbitrary graph into the bar</a></li><li><ahref="#space----associate-mission-control-spaces-with-an-item"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Space -- Associate mission control spaces with an item</a></li><li><ahref="#item-bracket----group-items-in-eg-colored-sections"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Item Bracket -- Group Items in e.g. colored sections</a></li><li><ahref="#item-alias----mirror-items-of-the-original-macos-status-bar-into-sketchybar"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">Item Alias -- Mirror items of the original macOS status bar into sketchybar</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div></div></main></div></div></div>
