MacApper Tip: Clean Out Your Menubar Items
With the plethora of apps that offer you instant access to notifications and functions directly from the menubar, things can get pretty crowded pretty fast. However, it’s super easy to get rid of most of the items in your menubar, and it’s only a click and drag away.
On most Apple apps, simply command clicking will allow you to take the icon right off the menubar so that you have some more screen real estate available. You’ll see the familiar “poof” effect once it’s gone.
However, in some of the other non-Apple apps, it’s not as simple, but hardly a hassle. By visiting the preferences (command+comma) pane of most applications, there’s a little check mark box to show notifications in the menubar. Simply uncheck this box, and voila, the information up on the top of the screen should be gone.
I hope that this tip makes it a little easier to keep things clean on your Mac and stay organized in the process.
A litle question: it’s possible to remove the Spotlight icon from the menu bar? I use QuickSilver and never use the Spotlight, then this is a useless icon for me
I’d like to know if I can rearrange the icons in my menu bar. I like the ones that I have, but I don’t like where they show up.
Command+click to menubar item that should do the work.
Girl Friday: I just googled “Remove spotlight menu bar icon” and got the instructions.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007103015513360
What programs are shown running that screenshot?
These are the worst screenshots I’ve ever seen.
The background pattern of the menu bar is simply distracting.
There is no explanation of the difference between the 1st and 2nd pictures.
Is MailPlane one of the icons? Which one?
I’ve seen better articles in middle school newsletters. This is an embarrassment to the generally good quality writing on MacApper.
how to remove the icon of MagicMenu
Hey THX!!! Easy and great tip !!