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imgreekyo

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 2, 2008
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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
Nov 5, 2005
538
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Sydney
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 2, 2008
3
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well, the ones i have running right now are: iAntiVirus, GrowlTunes, Wallpaper Clocks, and Yahoo! Widgets
 

epochblue

macrumors 68000
Aug 12, 2005
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Nashville, TN
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.
 

snverhallen

macrumors 6502a
Oct 17, 2007
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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.

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
Feb 9, 2008
22,183
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NYC
I guess the other way—which might not help much—is uninstall the program the menulet is associated with.
 
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