Menu bar status item renders off-screen at (-1, 1116) on macOS 26.5 Tahoe (Apple Silicon)

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Description

Summary

On macOS 26.5 (Tahoe, build 25F71) running on Apple Silicon, OpenUsage's menu bar status item is created but rendered at position (-1, 1116) — i.e. the bottom-left corner of the screen, completely outside the menu bar. The icon is therefore invisible and unclickable. Because the app exposes no other UI affordance (no main window, no File > New Window menu item), the GUI becomes entirely unreachable. Backend HTTP API on 127.0.0.1:6736 works correctly.

Environment

OpenUsage version	0.6.24 (aarch64 build, native — not Rosetta)
Tauri version	2.11.1
macOS	26.5 (build 25F71) — Tahoe
Hardware	MacBookPro18,2 — M1 Max
Display	Built-in Liquid Retina XDR, notch model, 1728×1117 pt logical
Architecture confirmed	Mach-O thin (arm64), sysctl.proc_translated = 0

Steps to reproduce

1. Install OpenUsage_0.6.24_aarch64.dmg on macOS 26.5 (Tahoe) with notch.
2. Remove quarantine, open the app.
3. Look at the menu bar.

Expected behavior

A status item appears in the menu bar (top of the screen, y ≈ 4) showing the current usage percentage (e.g. "98%"), clickable to open the panel.

Actual behavior

• Status item is created (visible to AX inspection)
• Status item is rendered off-screen at the bottom-left corner of the display
• Clicking via AXPress does not open any window/popover
• No fallback UI exists to access the app

Evidence

Status item position via System Events (AX)

tell application "System Events"
  tell process "openusage"
    set itm to menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
    return "position=" & (item 1 of position of itm) & "," & (item 2 of position of itm) & ¬
      " size=" & (item 1 of size of itm) & "x" & (item 2 of size of itm)
  end tell
end tell

Returns:

position=-1,1116 size=71x24

Compare with other working status items on the same machine, same session:

ChatMate Pro    y=4
Spotlight       y=4
One Switch      y=4
TimingHelper    y=4
Claude          y=3
openusage       y=1116   ← off-screen, bottom of display

The screen is 1728×1117 pt logical, so y=1116 is literally the last pixel row.

Backend works correctly

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:6736/v1/usage | jq '.[].providerId'
"claude"
"codex"
"cursor"

Each provider returns full usage data with correct plan detection (Max 20x, Pro 20x, Ultra).

App log shows no errors

[INFO] OpenUsage v0.6.24 starting
[INFO] WebKit inactiveSchedulingPolicy set to None
[INFO] local HTTP API listening on 127.0.0.1:6736

No windows are ever created

tell process "openusage" to return count of windows
-- → 0

AXPress on the off-screen status item does not change this — no popover, sheet, or window appears anywhere in the accessibility tree.

Reproducibility

• Persists across app restarts
• Persists across full system reboots
• Persists with the Ice menubar manager installed (Ice can't reposition items rendered outside menu bar 2's y-range)

Possible cause

Likely a regression in tauri-plugin-tray (bundled in Tauri 2.11.1) caused by macOS 26 (Tahoe) NSStatusItem positioning changes. The width of 71pt suggests the app is using a text-based status item (e.g. "98%"), so this may be specific to text-only status items rather than icon-only ones.

Workaround

None known. Backend data is accessible only via curl http://127.0.0.1:6736/v1/usage. App is effectively unusable.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install OpenUsage_0.6.24_aarch64.dmg on macOS 26.5 (Tahoe) with notch.
2. Remove quarantine, open the app.
3. Look at the menu bar.

Expected Behavior

A status item appears in the menu bar (top of the screen, y ≈ 4) showing the current usage percentage (e.g. "98%"), clickable to open the panel.

Actual Behavior

• Status item is created (visible to AX inspection)
• Status item is rendered off-screen at the bottom-left corner of the display
• Clicking via AXPress does not open any window/popover
• No fallback UI exists to access the app

OpenUsage Version

0.6.24 (aarch64 build, native — not Rosetta)

Operating System

macOS (Apple Silicon)

Screenshots

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Additional Context

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