Is anyone else having trouble with the Ice menu bar manager?

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Just wondering. I am using Ice on two Mac. One is on Tahoe 26.5; the other has not yet been upgraded to Tahoe.

On the Tahoe machine, when I run Ice, the appropriate icon appears in the menu bar. I can control click on it to get to the configuration/setup window. But, if I click on the icon itself to see the hidden menu bar items, Ice appears to crash. No error messages pop up; it just disappears and the menu bar goes back to its default MacOS state.

I was wondering if anyone had seen this and/or had any ideas. From the setting window, checking for updates indicates I have the latest version. It may be time to look for something else …

Thanks.

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I used Ice late last year for a few months, and gave up because it was so buggy, wouldn’t maintain the menu bar configuration from one session to another, froze regularly.

Katie

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Check out Thaw?

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Ice basically was abandoned by its developer.

It has been forked and it is under active development as “Thaw”:

I have been using it for months now.

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I suppose it depends on your very specific needs, but I now control the menu bar via the inbuilt controls in Tahoe. Work perfectly fine for my needs with a couple of tweaks with apps from Sindre Sorhus: https://sindresorhus.com

I use his Menu Bar Spacing (free) and Spaced (free). Tahoe OS does most of the work for me, but those other 2 free apps work perfectly for me to fine tune things.

You might find this video helpful:

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