Thaw 1.2.0 is out. Fixing more bugs 🐜, adding Multidisplay support and upping the translations to a total of 17 languages.
Been testing this for a couple of weeks and it feels solid.
Thaw A Good Menu Bar Manager Solution For Mac OS 26
I wrote about getting rid of #bartender, #ice, #thaw… In short, everything I was using to work around the notch of my #mac
https://blog.lanzani.nl/2026/get-rid-of-bartender-and-other-menu-bar-apps/
Since having a notch on my MacBook, I cannot fit all the icons in my menu bar. I’ve tried heaps of apps to make it work: Bartender, Ice/Thaw, and Hidden, but they all had subtle bugs. Turns out, there’s an easy way to avoid using these apps by shrinking the spacing and padding of the menu bar items, and now I don’t need any of these apps! From the terminal, type defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 2 defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 2 killall ControlCenter (You can play around with -int 2 and see what works best for you!).
Melting the Ice
Looks Like Thaw Will Be A Good Menu Bar Manager Solution For Mac OS 26
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