andrewn/brew-services-menubar

An OS X menu item for starting and stopping homebrew services

brew-services-menubar

An OS X menu item for starting and stopping homebrew services.

This reads the homebrew services command, showing you the status of your services and allowing them to be started, stopped and restarted.

Install

Using Homebrew Cask

brew install --cask brewservicesmenubar

Manually

Download from the Releases page.

⚠️ You'll see a warning "BrewServicesMenubar" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This is because I haven't paid Apple for a developer account.

More info about this malicious software warning.

Autostart

The program doesn't have an option to autostart itself, so you may want to open System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login Items and add the application to the list to have it start when you log in.

Usage

• Start a specific service by clicking its name
• Stop a specific running service (indicated with a tick) by clicking its name
• Hold the Option key to allow a single service to be restarted

Configuration

By default looks for Homebrew at /usr/local/bin/brew and /opt/Homebrew/bin/brew. If this not correct for your setup, you can customize it using:

defaults write andrewnicolaou.BrewServicesMenubar brewExecutable /usr/local/bin/brew

Contributors

• Andrew Nicolaou (https://github.com/andrewn)
• Stéphan Kochen (https://github.com/stephank)
• Stefan Sundin (https://github.com/stefansundin)

License

Icon is Beer by Enemen from the Noun Project.

brew-services-menubar's Issues

Project Icons

I love this tool. I think the menu bar could be improved by adding icons to each of the services that correspond to the project logo. I think this could greatly enhance the usability of the menu bar. If you have many items in the menu bar, it becomes easier/quicker to find the one you want by the icon.

For example, brew info --json mariadb has the homepage https://mariadb.org/. The homepage has a <link rel="icon"> tags with sizes 32x32 and 192x192. The smaller one could be retrieved and displayed in menu.

Another example, brew info --json nginx has the homepage: https://nginx.org/. There isn't a link tag in this one, but there is a /favicon.ico file that could be retrieved as a fallback.

For the cases where the icon could not automatically be retrieved, it may be possible to submit a PR to homebrew that allows an icon url to be included in the formula directly.

Application icon is hard to spot in Launchpad

I think the new background in macOS 10.15 may have made it harder to spot the app in the launchpad.

I wonder if we can update the icon to be more visible. Maybe make the beer foam yellow or something.

The system icon still looks great though, so that doesn't need to be changed.

Show services with "error" status

Context

Sometimes brew services reports a status of "error":

$ brew services list
Name       Status  User   Plist
postgresql error   andrew /Users/andrew/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
redis      started andrew /Users/andrew/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

What happens

The service is marked as disabled in the menu.

What should happen

We should show an error state and allow the service to be restarted, started or stopped.

Services started by sudo

Please add support to manage services started by super user.
Currently this services are disabled. I think a good idea ask user to enter sudo password.

Can't open app, for security reasons.

Hello,

I'm trying to start the app, but get this message.

I'm on OSX Monterey 12.2.1 on M1 chipset.

UI Style

Hello,

first of all I wanted to congratulate you for the idea, genius!

You can add an icon would be monochromatic black or white? At this time the colored icon is in conflict with the system tray.

Rename master branch to main

This brings us into line with new projects on Github and elsewhere.

Install with brew cask

Hi there.

I added your program to Homebrew cask, so it's super easy to install for all Homebrew users (which should be all of your users 😄). See Homebrew/homebrew-cask#45612

Now you can install with:

brew cask install brewservicesmenubar

You might want to add it to the README. That's all I came here to say. Have a nice day!

Notarize app binary

I should code-sign and notarize the app binary so you don't get a security warning when you try and install it.

Any way to hide certain services?

I just wanted to check to see if there was a way to hide services from the menubar. Services are showing up dependences of things, or old versions of things - both of which I never use / turn on and off.

Doesn't work on Catalina

Menu shows up in the menu bar but no services are shown. This is 3.0.0 from Homebrew on Catalina 10.15.5

add minio to the services list

I would love to see my minio server in the services list like nginx or redis

https://github.com/minio/homebrew-stable

`brew services list` command can show `error` in Status column

Currently, the app doesn't indicate this, it shows a non-checked state.

It would be nice to show a red dot or some other indicator.

Doesn't work on Mojave

Menu shows up in the menu bar but no services are shown.

Menu can contain duplicate items when updating

The general behavior is reproducible just by starting and stopping services but the results are not always the same. In one instance the "Quit" menu item was in the first position until the menu finished updating.

The app sometimes crashes when I do "Stop all"

Hi,

I am using macOS Sonoma (14.2.1 (23C71)) on an M1 Pro MacBook and the latest version of this app, installed today.

Firstly, thanks to all the contributors for it! It is very useful and exactly what I need.

Starting all the services for me works:

But when I use "stop all", the app sometimes crashes without any error message.

I had this problem 2 or 3 times but when I am trying to reproduce it now, I can't... 😅 Good for me, I guess.

But still reporting it, maybe more people with this problem with show up and share some more helpful troubleshooting info.

Persist in menu bar

Hello,
will the icon re-appear in the menu bar after restart or do you need to launch it each time?
Any configuration to opt in/out?

Apple M1

On Apple M1 computers, Homebrew changed its path (see https://docs.brew.sh/Installation).

Therefore, this program just says "No services available" and doesn't work out of the box.

To fix it you can run:

defaults write andrewnicolaou.BrewServicesMenubar brewExecutable /opt/homebrew/bin/brew

The code should be updated to detect this case. I was thinking about doing it but I would have to install Xcode and I am not sure I want to do that just yet.