brew-services-menubar

An OS X menu item for starting and stopping homebrew services.

This reads the homebrew services command, showing you the status of your services and allowing them to be started, stopped and restarted.

Install

Using Homebrew Cask

brew install --cask brewservicesmenubar

Manually

Download from the Releases page.

⚠️ You'll see a warning "BrewServicesMenubar" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This is because I haven't paid Apple for a developer account.

More info about this malicious software warning.

Autostart

The program doesn't have an option to autostart itself, so you may want to open System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login Items and add the application to the list to have it start when you log in.

Usage

• Start a specific service by clicking its name
• Stop a specific running service (indicated with a tick) by clicking its name
• Hold the Option key to allow a single service to be restarted

Configuration

By default looks for Homebrew at /usr/local/bin/brew and /opt/Homebrew/bin/brew. If this not correct for your setup, you can customize it using:

defaults write andrewnicolaou.BrewServicesMenubar brewExecutable /usr/local/bin/brew

Contributors

• Andrew Nicolaou (https://github.com/andrewn)
• Stéphan Kochen (https://github.com/stephank)
• Stefan Sundin (https://github.com/stefansundin)

License

Icon is Beer by Enemen from the Noun Project.