SlimHUD

Replacement for MacOS’ HUDs.

Every day you change your volume or brightness and an ugly and unbelievably old overlay animation appears. SlimHUD is what you need.

Features - Settings

Each feature can be toggled from the settings window.
To access the settings window start SlimHUD again, while it’s already running. The settings window will appear:

Here’s are some of the things you can customise:

• When changing volume / brightness / keyboard’s backlight a small icon is shown under the bar.

• If you don’t like the flat look of the bar you can enable a shadow effect.

• There are multiple animation styles:

• Continuously check for changes (recommended if you use a TouchBar): shows the HUDs when using the volume / brightness slider.

• Each bar (volume / brightness / keyboard’s backlight) has it’s own color.
  You can also choose the color of the volume when its muted.

• Each icon (volume / brightness / keyboard’s backlight) also has it’s own color! ¹

• If you think that the default bar is too small you can easily adjust its size.

• The HUDs can appear on any edge: left, right, bottom or top; it’s up to you!

• Lastly don’t forget to enable the launch at login function!

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Only available in MacOS 10.14 and later.

Installation

You can use brew install slimhud!

Or download the latest release and move it to /Applications.

Credits to GameParrot for making it so easy!

Uninstalling

If you’d like to restore the system’s HUDs:

1. Disable “launch at login” or delete SlimHUD from /Applications

Credits

Thanks to w0lfschild and massimobio for creating respectively
cleanHUD and ProgressHUD-Mac and inspiring me to create this project.

Also thanks to pirate and kaunteya, whose code from these project (mac-keyboard-brightness and ProgressKit) was used to complete this project.

Thanks to reitermarkus, ans87gh and p-linnane for adding this project to brew.

SlimHUD is using Sparkle to support automatic updates. Binaries are stored on GitHub and connections use HTTPs.

Support

Even starring this project is a great support! If you want to support me even more, you can buy me a beer! 😄

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details