Customise MacBook Touch Bar

November 27, 2020

Get a cool touch bar!

  1. Follow the installation procedures on MTMR.
  2. Click the MTMR app -> “Open preset” on the menu bar.
  3. Open “items.json”
  4. Copy my items.json and paste it on your own itmes.json
  5. Bang! You got it!

If you want to customise more, look this link.

Or if you want to add favourite pictures to your touch bar,

  1. Open terminal.
  2. Navigate to the directory where your pictures are located.
your_name:~$ cd PLACE_NAME
  1. Translate pictures (png or jpg) to base64 encode.
your_name:~$ base64 IMAGE_NAME.png
  1. Copy the long encode and paste it below, as indicated.
{"type": "appleScriptTitledButton","align": "left", "width": 25, "bordered": false,"image":{"base64":"YOUR_ENCODE!"}}
  1. Add the full text to your own items.json
  2. Bang! Enjoy your customised touch bar!!