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title: "Frozen Mac Touchbar"
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date: 2021-12-10T21:28:14+01:00
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feature_link: "https://unsplash.com/photos/4mX4kRRubIw"
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feature_text: "Photo by Sumudu Mohottige on Unsplash"
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tags:
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- hacking
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- rant
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slug: "frozen-mac-touchbar"
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categories:
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- fingerfood
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- dev
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description: "Sometime you need to fix your frozen Mac TouchBar"
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meta:
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- mac
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- repair
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- touchbar
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---
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## The touchbar
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Sometime you need to do some task. If you have a MacBook Pro you can have a touchbar. Sometime *Works* sometime *Freezes*. And it freezes in the most Murphy's way[^1] possible.
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[^1]: [Murphy's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law) *Anything that can possibly go wrong, does*
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Something like googling "mac touch bar not working" or "mac touch bar freezes"
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In my personal experience it stops when play a *bad* song on Spotify.
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### What's happened?
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Your *touch bar* can be in one of this three state:
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1. _A working *touch bar*_ which is the natural state of the Mac
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2. _A frozen *touch bar*_ which is a crashed state of the *touch bar* of the Mac
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3. _A blank *touch bar*_ which is my favourite state of the *touch bar* of the Mac
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So can I fix it? Yes!
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## Fixing it
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An *user logout* sometime fix the problem. Sometime not allways will fix it.
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*Restart* the Mac will allways fix the problem but sometime you can't restart the machine for a _minor_ fix so you need something else for the fix. Something like a command.
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### Bash for the win
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If you need to _restart_ the *touch bar* without restarting your Mac you can use this bash fragment.
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``` bash
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sudo pkill TouchBarServer;
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sudo killall "ControlStrip";
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```
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Your welcome
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