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Show icon in menu bar while a shell script is running?

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When running a finder quick action, a cute little cog wheel is shown in the menu bar while the task is still running:

Icon depicting a cog wheel

Is there a way to make a similar icon appear in the menu bar while a shell script is running in terminal?

For example with the following shell script test.sh

sleep 10

Is there a way to make a wrapper or something, which would trigger a menu bar icon?

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posted 12 months ago

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Make a tray icon (1 comment)

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 12 months ago · edited 12 months ago

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You could probably accomplish this by creating a program that does nothing except display a tray icon until it exits.

There are many programs on OS X that display tray icons, so you can probably use their example (I don't know exactly how to do it). Seems like one way could be a Python program that uses https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/PySide6/QtWidgets/QSystemTrayIcon.html

Then you have at least 2 options:

Start the tray icon program in the beginning of the script, and kill it at the end (you'd probably have to hold on to the PID or something like that)
Make the tray icon program take an argument, create the tray icon, then run the command in the argument using something like Python subprocess - when the subprocess exits, the tray should disappear as well

Don't have time to develop and test a full solution, unfortunately.

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