My touchbar. My rules.

The TouchBar Customization App for your MacBook Pro

My idea is to create a platform for creating plugins to customize the TouchBar. I very much like BTT and having a full custom TouchBar (my BTT preset), and I wanted to create it.

Share your presets here

Visial editor for MTMR -> MTMR Designer All thanks to @josetwentyfour

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Installation

Download latest release (.dmg) from github
Or via Homebrew brew install --cask mtmr
Dario Prski has written a fantastic article on medium that goes into more detail on installing MTMR

On first install you need to allow access for MTMR in Accessibility otherwise buttons like <kbd>Esc</kbd>, <kbd>Volume</kbd>, <kbd>Brightness</kbd> and other system keys won't work.

<img width="450" alt="screenshot 2019-02-24 at 23 19 20" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2198153/53307057-2b078200-388c-11e9-8212-8c2b1aff0aa6.png"> 🍏→ System Preferences → Security and Privacy → tab Privacy → Accessibility → MTMR

Examples

MTMR presets

Customization

MTMR preferences are stored in ~/Library/Application\ Support/MTMR/items.json.

The pre-installed configuration contains less or more than you'll probably want, try to configure:

Built-in button types:

Buttons

escape
exitTouchbar
brightnessUp
brightnessDown
illuminationUp (keyboard illumination)
illuminationDown (keyboard illumination)
volumeDown
volumeUp
mute

Native Plugins

timeButton
battery
cpu
currency
weather
yandexWeather
inputsource
music (tap for pause, longTap for next)
dock (half-long click to open app, full-long click to kill app)
nightShift
dnd (Don't disturb)
darkMode
pomodoro
network
upnext (Calendar events)

Media Keys

previous
play
next

AppleScript plugins

sleep
displaySleep

Custom buttons

staticButton
appleScriptTitledButton
shellScriptTitledButton

Gestures

By default you can enable basic gestures from application menu (status bar -> MTMR icon -> Volume/Brightness gestures):

two finger slide: change you Volume
three finger slide: change you Brightness

Custom gestures

You can add custom actions for two/three/four finger swipes. To do it, you need to use swipe type:

    "type": "swipe",
    "fingers": 2,            // number of fingers required (2,3 or 4)
    "direction": "right",    // direction of swipe (right/left)
    "minOffset": 10,          // optional: minimal required offset for gesture to emit event
    "sourceApple": {         // optional: apple script to run
        "inline": "beep"
    },
    "sourceBash": {          // optional: bash script to run
        "inline": "touch /Users/lobster/test"
    }

You may create as many swipe objects in the preset as you want.

Built-in slider types:

brightness
volume

You can also make custom buttons using these types

`staticButton`

 "type": "staticButton",
 "title": "esc",

`appleScriptTitledButton`

  {
    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "refreshInterval": 60, //optional
    "source": {
      "filePath": "~/Library/Application Support/MTMR/iTunes.nowPlaying.scpt",
      // or
      "inline": "tell application \"Finder\"\rif not (exists window 1) then\rmake new Finder window\rset target of front window to path to home folder as string\rend if\ractivate\rend tell",
      // or
      "base64": "StringInbase64"
    },
  }

Note: You can change appleScriptTitledButton's icon by following these steps:

Declare dictionary of icons in alternativeImages field
Make you script return array of two values - {"TITLE", "IMAGE_LABEL"}
Make sure that your IMAGE_LABEL is declared in alternativeImages field

Example:

  {
    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "source": {
      "inline": "if (random number from 1 to 2) = 1 then\n\tset val to {\"title\", \"play\"}\nelse\n\tset val to {\"title\", \"pause\"}\nend if\nreturn val"
    },
    "refreshInterval": 1,
    "image": {
      "base64": "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgA..."
    },
    "alternativeImages": {
      "play": {
        "base64": "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAAA..."
      },
      "pause": {
        "base64": "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAIAA..."
      }
    }
  },

`shellScriptTitledButton`

Note: script may also use escape sequences to return colors (read https://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting for more information) "16 Colors" is the only mode supported presently. Buttons will set their own background color to the color returned.

Example of "CPU load" button which also changes color based on load value (Note: The native cpu plugin runs runs better):

{
  "type": "shellScriptTitledButton",
  "width": 80,
  "refreshInterval": 2,
  "source": {
    "inline": "top -l 2 -n 0 -F | egrep -o ' \\d*\\.\\d+% idle' | tail -1 | awk -F% '{p = 100 - $1; if (p > 30) c = \"\\033[33m\"; if (p > 70) c = \"\\033[30;43m\"; printf \"%s%4.1f%%\\n\", c, p}'"
  },
  "actions": [
    {
      "trigger": "singleTap",
      "action": "appleScript",
      "actionAppleScript": {
        "inline": "activate application \"Activity Monitor\"\rtell application \"System Events\"\r\ttell process \"Activity Monitor\"\r\t\ttell radio button \"CPU\" of radio group 1 of group 2 of toolbar 1 of window 1 to perform action \"AXPress\"\r\tend tell\rend tell"
      }
    }
  ],
  "align": "right",
  "image": {
    // Or you can specify a filePath here.
    // Images will be resized to 24x24.
    // "filePath": "~/myproject/myimage.jpg" // or "/fixed/path/to/the.png"
    "base64":
    "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"
  },
  "bordered": false
}

Groups

{
  "type": "group",
  "align": "center",
  "bordered": true,
  "title": "stats",
  "items": [
    { "type": "play" },
    { "type": "mute" },
    ...
  ]
}

MTMR

Install / Use

README