bettertouchtooltouch-bar
I have a MacBook Pro with a touch bar and have never used BetterTouchTool. I know it has touch bar functionality, like adding a button to open an app. Is it possible to show either of the following?
If so, how can it be accomplished?
There is no way to customize it yet. Seems to be ample space to place them around the "Play" icon.
The new shortcut is Command-Dim Brightness. It even makes sense in the following way:
Assuming that you take advantage of the touch bar, and it displays the system controls instead of the function keys then the hand gesture is exactly the same as before when you would have pressed Command-F1 since the Dim Brightness button is where F1 would be:
The annoying thing is that if you have an application-aware touch bar configuration, then you have to bring up the system controls touch bar configuration first.
This is why, in some cases, the Display Menu (in the App Store) which adds a status item in your menu bar (and includes a Mirror Screen choice) is a good option.
Best Answer
BetterTouchTool has a "widget" option for the touch bar, and one of the options is to display the output of an AppleScript program. You could write a script that gets the number of unread emails (another question has some code for doing that here)