Removing 3rd party menulets from Leopard menubar

imgreekyo

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Aug 2, 2008

• #1

Hi,

I know you can remove Apple menulets from the menubar by holding the command key and dragging the icons off..

But for third party applications without a "hide menulet" option: is there a way to manually remove/hide the menulet? (To be specific: I'm not talking about simply replacing the menulet with a transparent png, I'm talking full removal but the program is still running in the background)

 

darkcurse

macrumors 6502a

• Aug 30, 2008

• #2

Which menulet from which program are you specifically referring to? Most programs have preferences to turn off those menulets.

 

imgreekyo

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Aug 31, 2008

• #3

well, the ones i have running right now are: iAntiVirus, GrowlTunes, Wallpaper Clocks, and Yahoo! Widgets

 

epochblue

macrumors 68000

• Sep 1, 2008

• #4

Third-party menulets that are implemented the "correct" way don't get the ability to be moved around via Cmd+drag, so unless there's an option in the app's preferences to hide the menubar icon, I think you're pretty much SOL.

 

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snverhallen

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 1, 2008

• #5

epochblue said:

Third-party menulets that are implemented the "correct" way don't get the ability to be moved around via Cmd+drag, so unless there's an option in the app's preferences to hide the menubar icon, I think you're pretty much SOL.

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Correct, unless there's options in the Menulets prefs then there is no way to remove them without quitting the actual menulet.

snverhallen

 

alphaod

macrumors Core

• Sep 1, 2008

• #6

I guess the other way—which might not help much—is uninstall the program the menulet is associated with.