BetterTouchTool Touch Bar Presets

Here we collect cool touch bar presets for BetterTouchTool. Feel free to send your own configs in pull-requests. Do not forget to attach a screenshot (⇧⌘6) and write some description to this README.

Installation

After installing BetterTouchTool, you can import/export configurations from the Manage Presets button.

Presets

@vas3k: vas3k_btt_v2.json

Widgets:

• Smart Finder: opens a new Finder window in any situation
• Spotify Now Playing: shows the name of the track currently playing in Spotify
• VK and YouTube Now Playing
• Top reminder from Reminders.app
• Weather widget: temperature in current location (install JSON Helper and Location Helper to make it work)
• Coffee Break: lock screen button :)
• Convenient Play button: controls only Spotify and iTunes, not all that shit that macOS High Sierra do

@ad: ad_btt.json

Version 2 (with sliders):

ad_btt_v2.json

Version 3 (System info group, battery info is moved to the group to reduce the consumption of system resources):

ad_btt_v3.json

@ReDetection: redetection_v1.1.json

Widgets:

• Click on VK and YouTube widgets opens their specific tab
• Geeky weather

@podkovyrin: podkovyr_btt.json

Widgets:

• Auto-hidden next track button

@toxblh: toxblh.json

Version 1: toxblh_v1.json

Widgets:

Presets:

1. Finder
2. Bright up/down
3. What now playing for iTunes, Spotify and VOX. Next by press.
4. I want a coffee!
5. Weather - Local the weather
6. Volume up/down
7. Play/Pause - Work only with iTunes, Spotify and VOX
8. Battery status
9. Time - simple a time

@surpher: xcode-dev.json

system-controls.json

Widgets:

1. Now playing for iTunes, tap to Next
2. YouTube playing in Safari
3. YouTube playing in Chrome

Presets:

1. Finder
2. Xcode
3. Git-Tower
4. iTerm2
5. iTunes/YouTube widget
6. Coffee time!
7. Volume down/up
8. Mute/Unmute
9. Play/Pause
10. System Controls button group (preset)

@danruss: danruss_btt.json

Widgets:

1. YouTube playing in Chrome
2. Now playing in Spotify
3. Reminders: Last Reminder

Presets Left:

1. Finder
2. Terminal
3. Visual Studio Code

Presets Right:

1. Coffee - Sleep Computer
2. Volume Down
3. Volume Up
4. Brightness Down
5. Brightness Up
6. Weather - Weather Icon + Temp F
7. Time - H:mm

@gillesdubois: gillesdubois_btt.json

Presets Left:

1. Finder
2. Visual Studio Code
3. iTunes : Now Playing
4. VPN Status - Tap to connect / disconnect (Tunnelblick)
5. Weather - Weather Icon + Temp C°

Presets Right:

1. Brightness Down
2. Brightness Up
3. Volume Down
4. Volume Up
5. Play / Pause
6. Coffee - Sleep Computer
7. Time - H:mm

• Click here from more informations and how to setup

@pavopax: touchbar-preset.json @ pavopax/dotfiles

Left:

1. Forklift
2. TextEdit
3. Emacs (icons)
4. Notes

Middle widget:

1. iTunes song, click to jump to next

Right:

1. Play/Pause
2. Volume down
3. Volume up
4. Coffee - sleep screen (not sleep computer)
5. Time as h:mm a

Misc:

1. Hold Fn key to access expanded control strip or press it to toggle BTT/app controls if available, via hack from alexw.me - search "You can still access the Control Strip..."

@vladionescu: simple_snake.json

Left:

1. ESC
2. Emoji picker

Middle widget:

1. Spotify now playing, click to jump to next

The next song title appears immediately, it doesn't wait for the now playing script to run on its timer

Right:

1. Brightness down
2. Brightness slider
3. Volume down
4. Volume slider
5. Mute
6. Lock screen
7. Day Month Date
8. 12 hour clock

The brightness/volume up buttons were omitted from the slider in the interest of saving space, and because I use the slider to adjust and not the buttons. The buttons are effectively just icons to remind what each slider is for.

@goldenchaos: goldenchaos-btt.json

• Fullscreen button also acts as esc key
• Date and Time widget toggles Fantastical 2 menu bar when pressed (uses Fantastical 2's default keyboard shortcut)
• Weather widget toggles Carrot menu bar when pressed (uses Carrot's default keyboard shortcut)
• Refresh button appears next to Forward and Back buttons if Safari is open
• Media controls and iTunes widget appear only when iTunes is running
• iTunes Now Playing widget shows currently playing song or "Paused" if iTunes is not playing anything
• Due Today widget shows reminders from Reminders.app that are due today, overdue, or without a due date
• Reminders without a due date persist and automatically show the most recently added reminder
• Persistent Show Finder widget provides easy finder access
• Persistent Maximize Left, Center Window, and Maximize Right controls (with custom glyphs!) for window management
• Tap on any widget to open its parent app

Useful links

• Original blog post (EN)
• Original blog post (RU)
• Reddit: Share your BetterTouchTool touchbar shortcuts

License

Licensed under the WTFPL license. Full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.

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