macOS Missing Menu Bar Item

Power Manager provides a menu bar item on macOS. Disabling login items or launchd jobs will cause the menu bar to stop appearing.

If the Power Manager menu bar item is missing, it is likely the associated login item or launchd job is disabled.

Make sure the login items are enabled in the System Settings.

If the login items appear to be correct, 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.