macOS Missing Menu Bar Item

If the Power Manager menu bar item is missing, there are two likely possibilities:

• you have reached the macOS limit for menu bar items;
• or the associated login item or launchd job is disabled.

First make sure the login items are enabled in the System Settings.

Second, count the number of icons in the menu bar. macOS has a limit of about twelve items. The exact number changes depending on the version of macOS, but once the limit is reached, new items will not be visible.

If the login items appear to be correct and the number if existing items is low, next run the following command in Terminal.app:

launchctl print-disabled gui/$UID

The output will be in the form:

	disabled services = {
		"com.apple.Siri.agent" => disabled
		"com.apple.FolderActionsDispatcher" => disabled
		"com.apple.ScriptMenuApp" => disabled
		"uk.co.dssw.pmnotify" => disabled
	}

If the output contains entries starting with uk.co.dssw. that are marked as disabled, then this is a problem. To fix the problem, these entries need to be enabled.

To enable jobs, adapt and run the following command for each entry:

launchctl enable gui/$UID/uk.co.dssw.pmnotify

After enabling launchd jobs, you will need to log out and back in for the changes to be seen.