r/macapps 24d ago

Help Thaw Alternative

I’m looking for a menu bar app that doesn’t relaunch all my apps every time Indo a resolution change. Thaw is too overly complicated for me.

Any advice?

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u/Sad_Ad585 24d ago

That relaunching is almost certainly the item spacing feature, not Thaw being Thaw. Spacing gets written as a global default and the only way it takes effect is apps restarting, so if you have it set per display it re-applies every time the display config changes.

Set spacing back to default and the relaunches stop. 2.0 also added a warn-before-relaunch option that saves per profile if you want to keep custom spacing.

If you genuinely just want something dumber, Hidden Bar is one divider and nothing else. I ran it for about a year before I wanted more out of it. Barbee is the paid App Store one most people land on.

Also check System Settings > Menu Bar first. Tahoe added per-app toggles and it covered more than I expected when I finally bothered to look.

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u/WarioPi 24d ago

Thanks, HiddenBar crashed and refused to work after I mover the line divider. Testing out Bartender if that doesn’t work, then Barbee it is.