Bar not showing

[Filip Milosevic]

Im currently using the macbook pro M2 on ventura 13.6 and having an issue where the bar doesn't show up even though i setup everything following the setup and the default configs. When i run it directly in the terminal it doesn't throw any errors but its now showing.

[Felix Kratz]

So it is showing when you run the bar from the commandline and not showing when run as a brew service?

[Filip Milosevic]

Its not showing at all

[Felix Kratz]

Could you provide the output of the following command:

ls -la $HOME/.config/sketchybar

[Filip Milosevic]

total 16 drwxr-xr-x@ 4 filipmilosevic staff 128 Dec 12 13:35 . drwxr-xr-x@ 14 filipmilosevic staff 448 Dec 11 12:17 .. drwxr-xr-x@ 7 filipmilosevic staff 224 Dec 12 13:37 plugins -rwxr--r--@ 1 filipmilosevic staff 5305 Dec 12 13:34 sketchybarrc

[Felix Kratz]

Ok, now:

sketchybar --query bar

when the bar is running but not showing.

[Filip Milosevic]

{
	"position": "top",
	"topmost": "off",
	"sticky": "off",
	"shadow": "off",
	"font_smoothing": "off",
	"blur_radius": 30,
	"margin": 0,
	"drawing": "on",
	"color": "0x15ffffff",
	"border_color": "0xffff0000",
	"border_width": 0,
	"height": 32,
	"corner_radius": 0,
	"padding_left": 10,
	"padding_right": 10,
	"y_offset": 0,
	"clip": 0.000000,
	"image": {
		"value": "(null)",
		"drawing": "off",
		"scale": 1.000000
	},
	"items": [
		 "space.1",
		 "space.2",
		 "space.3",
		 "space.4",
		 "space.5",
		 "space.6",
		 "space.7",
		 "space.8",
		 "space.9",
		 "space.10",
		 "space_separator",
		 "front_app",
		 "clock",
		 "volume",
		 "battery"
	]
}

[Felix Kratz]

Hmm ok, now:

sketchybar --query front_app

[Filip Milosevic]

Ok for some reason it started showing up right away when i queried... Now its hiding whenever a window is open

[Filip Milosevic]

Thank you and sorry for bothering...

[Felix Kratz]

I still think there is an issue here. It should not only show after the query command.

And the bar hiding whenever a window is open is also not expected behavior.

[Filip Milosevic]

Okay i thought i did something wrong, im here to provide any help

[Felix Kratz]

Could you try the following:

brew services stop sketchybar
killall sketchybar
brew uninstall sketchybar
brew install sketchybar --head
sketchybar

Does it now show directly?

And could you zip me the folder at $HOME/.config/sketchybar and attach it?

[Filip Milosevic]

Did the commands, its now showing but there is still the issue with it being hidden when a window is open.

Im using yabai as the wm.

[Felix Kratz]

Is the bar covered by another window or is it not rendering at all?

[Filip Milosevic]

Its not rendering at all

[Filip Milosevic]

zip.zip
Here is the zip of the config folder you mentioned above

[Felix Kratz]

When you run sketchybar from the commandline, does it keep running or does it crash when a window is open and it stops showing?

[Filip Milosevic]

Actually its being rendered sorry

[Felix Kratz]

Ok, then try:

sketchybar --bar topmost=on

this will keep sketchybar as the topmost window at all times.

[Filip Milosevic]

Its now like this, covering the other windows

[Felix Kratz]

To keep yabai from putting windows where sketchybar is use:

yabai -m config external_bar all:40:0

[Filip Milosevic]

Now it works, thank you so much and sorry for the hassle... im still a bit new to this

[Felix Kratz]

Now try:

brew services stop sketchybar
killall sketchybar
brew uninstall sketchybar
brew install sketchybar
brew services start sketchybar
yabai -m config external_bar all:40:0
sketchybar --bar topmost=on

does this still work as expected?

[Filip Milosevic]

Works like a charm

[Felix Kratz]

Great! Have a nice day.