Macos – Can AppleScript/osascript be used to click menu extra menu items

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I have an application installed that only appears in the menu bar (as a menu extra to the right). I would like to click one of the items contained in its menu via osascript. I've found the following code snippet:

osascript -e '
  tell application "System Events"
    tell process "SystemUIServer"
      tell (1st menu bar item of menu bar 1 whose value of attribute "AXDescription" is "keymando menu extra")
         perform action "AXPress" of menu item "Edit Config" of menu 1
      end tell
    end tell
  end tell

Sadly, it does not work. I assume I have the name of menu extra correct: "Keymando menu extra".

Best Answer

SystemUIServer only includes menu extras (the icons on the right side that can be rearranged) but not status menus (like the one Keymando uses).

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
    tell (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 where description is "clock")
        click
        click menu item "Open Date & Time Preferences…" of menu 1
    end tell
end tell

In some applications menu bar 2 is the status menu, but tell application "System Events" to UI elements of process "Keymando" returns an empty list.

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This, while possible, may be a bit too fiddly to do with a script. Here is a partial sample script that restores firefox and itunes windows (adapted from the script found here.)

property numFFWindows : 0
property FFPos : {}
property FFSize : {}
property iTunesPos : {}
property iTunesSize : {}

display dialog "Set Window Position or Save Window Position?" buttons {"Restore", "Save"} default button "Restore"
set theResult to result

tell application "System Events"
    if (button returned of theResult is "Restore") then
        -- Restore Settings
        if (numFFWindows > 0) then
            tell process "Firefox"
                repeat with i from 1 to numFFWindows
                    set position of window i to (item i of FFPos)
                    set size of window i to (item i of FFSize)
                end repeat
            end tell
        end if
        if (iTunesPos is not {0, 0}) then
            tell process "iTunes"
                set position of window 1 to iTunesPos
                set size of window 1 to iTunesSize
            end tell
        end if
    else
        -- Save Settings
        tell process "Firefox"
            set numFFWindows to count windows
            set FFPos to {}
            set FFSize to {}
            repeat with i from 1 to numFFWindows
                set end of FFPos to (position of window i)
                set end of FFSize to (size of window i)
            end repeat
        end tell
        tell process "iTunes"
            set iTunesPos to position of window 1
            set iTunesSize to size of window 1
        end tell
    end if
end tell

I suggest you to look at this utility for more flexibility:

http://cordlessdog.com/stay/

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You could remove entries in the CFBundleDocumentTypes array in Info.plist files. To apply the changes, run /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -f -R /Applications/ and reopen Finder.

Modifying an Info.plist breaks the code signature of signed applications and makes some applications like TextEdit crash on launch.

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