---
title: The menu bar
description: What Yabar's spaces item in the menu bar shows, and what its menu offers.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/getting-started/the-menu-bar
---

# The menu bar
![Yabar's spaces in the menu bar: "code" focused, "web" and "chat" occupied, an empty space 4](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/images/shots/menubar/spaces.png)
Every space is a cell, in the order yabai numbers them:

| Looks like                         | Means                                                                                                |
|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| A filled box with the name cut out | The focused space.                                                                                   |
| An outlined box                    | The space shown on another display.                                                                  |
| Plain text                         | A space with windows.                                                                                |
| Faint text                         | An empty space.                                                                                      |
| A dot at the top right             | The space holds a stack (or uses yabai's stack layout).                                              |
| A bar underneath                   | A window on the space [wants attention](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/stacks/attention). |
| A dashed box                       | A native fullscreen app.                                                                             |

A space shows its [label](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/layouts/labels) when it has one, its number otherwise. With more than one display, the
displays are separated by a wider gap, or get an item each (**One item per display** in Settings).
**Click** a space to go there. That needs yabai's scripting addition; without it Yabar focuses one of the space's
windows, which makes macOS switch to it (an empty space then can't be reached this way).

## The menu

Right-click (or Control-click) the item:
- **Label Space N…**: name the focused space.
- **Scratchpads**: when yabai's scripting addition is loaded.
- **Stack Indicators**: the style and placement, at a glance.
- **Settings…** (⌘,), the version, **Check for Updates…**, **Quit**.
- Last, every space with its windows: pick one to go there. Stacked windows carry their place in the stack.