annoying bluetooth low battery indicator

This problem drives me CRAZY!

It makes me want to use a wired mouse!

The battery usage in the wireless mouse is bad enough, but having to stare at the blinking bluetooth battery icon for days and days and days is distracting and horrible. I can't turn it off short of replacing batteries which have a week or more of power left in them. User friendly, this is not!

By the way, I logged in to the discussion boards for the first time just to bump this thread to the top of the heap so Apple will do something about this tiny tiny but mind-numbingly awful glitch!

Please. Somebody. Find a solution!

By the way, no. The problem is not like world hunger.

But I put up with a blinking light on my Apple 17" lcd monitor for years. That one, thankfully, I could cover with a sticky note. Unsightly, yes. Distractingly annoying, less so than having a computer named Mr. Blinkey!

So, when I bought my beautiful new Mac Pro recently, I bought a whole new Cinema display just so I wouldn't have the problem of something on my screen constantly blinking at me! However, to my horror and eternal suffering, my beatiful new screen blinks at me from the annoyingly unwanted bluetooth menu bar. Worse, I can't even use a sticky note to cover it!

Ugh! Apple! So close, yet so close...

Any solution for this?
I have rechargeable batteries and its really annoying to watch flashing indicator in bar for 10 days.

If you don't need the indicator in the menu bar, command+drag it off the menu bar got rid of it for me. I haven't tested if it comes back after a reboot or not.

Thanks, you save my eyes 🙂