Menu bar in full screen annoyance

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Menu bar in full screen annoyance

Is there a way to alter this in some preferences? For example either:

Never make the menu bar visible in full screen even when hovering at top screen, and force to use a button pressed down while hovering mouse upwards to see the menu.
Options to always make the menu bar visible, which should be easy to add to the preferences and probably the most convenient.
Scale the windows when the menu drops down so that you don't loose any part of the open windows.

Too often the mouse gets too high on the screen, which pulls down the menu bar, this often blocks the reason for moving my mouse up there in the first place, and I have to pull it down for the menu to disappear again.

I often need to windows with two apps side by side, and manually fiddle with this for one window is more hassle than it should be also, so resizing windows manually is not a good option.

MacBook Air (2018 or later)

Posted on Dec 15, 2018 2:45 AM

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Roote

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Dec 15, 2018 9:18 AM in response to olav.e

One option is to not use macOS’s Split View which operates in full screen mode. Instead, you can have similar functionality to Split View and have the menu bar always showing by using a window management app such as Spectacle. Use keyboard shortcuts to automatically position windows. Some useful keyboard shortcuts:

macOS

Command-Tab to switch between open apps.

Command-Tilde (~) to switch between open windows in the current app.

Spectacle

Command-Option-Left Arrow to move a window to the left half of the screen.

Command-Option-Right Arrow to move a window to the right half of the screen.

Hold down Command-Option and repeatedly press the appropriate left or right arrow key to cycle between 1/2, 2/3, and 1/3 of the screen.

There are additional keyboard shortcuts for top, bottom, quarters, etc.

If you prefer to automatically hide and show the Dock, select that option by navigating to  > System Preferences… > Dock.

https://www.spectacleapp.com

https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

Tested on macOS Mojave 10.14.2

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VikingOSX

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Dec 15, 2018 3:51 AM in response to olav.e

You are asking Apple to modify the normal behavior in full screen mode that has been present for many years. There are no user settings to alter what is baked into the operating system. Send feedback to the macOS project team.

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olav.e Author

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Dec 15, 2018 7:28 AM in response to VikingOSX

I am not asking Apple to modify, I am wondering if it is possible for me to modify to my preferences somewhere in the OS. But I could maybe send a feedback and ask if they could add an always visible option for the menu bar.

Even though something has been present for many years, this is my first MacBook, so everything is fairly new to me. Although, if it has been like this for years, and this is a feature that still aren't implemented, I doubt there are enough demand for this for to see the light.

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Menu bar in full screen annoyance

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