MacOS – How to remove the spacing next to the last icon at the right of the menu bar that appeared after upgrading to Bartender 2

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A spacing next to the last icon at the right of the menu bar appeared after upgrading to Bartender 2 (see the screenshot below). It was not there before. How can I remove it?

a spacing next to the last icon at the right of the menu bar

I already tried:

  1. restarting Bartender 2 and my Macbook as advised on the support page
  2. reinstalling Bartender 2 (curious: after the uninstall it still displayed the spacing!)
  3. command-dragging the icon to the right (when letting go it reverts
    to it's original position)
  4. checking the .plist of Bartender 1/2 if something is wrong or different (couldn't tell)
  5. contacted Bartender support (no answer yet)
  6. upgrading from OS X Yosemite to OS X El Capitan (no change)

Best Answer

Bartender 2 2.0.1 fixes this, adding a preference in Preferences → Appearance:

Right most menu bar gap
Bartender 2 added a gap to the right of the menu bar when Notification Center was hidden, this is to maintain the default gap at the screen edge, a lot of users liked not having this gap, so this is now a preference under Appearance.

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