Disable auto hide menu bar when using full screen apps

resizing the screen manually by clicking the corner in an app works for me.

Indeed, this feature is so aggravating. It's not the hiding that's aggravating so much as the un-hiding, the way the menu bar jumps out under your mouse cursor when you were really just going to the top of the window to click a tab or something.

What everyone is missing here is that we want the app to still _be_ a full-screen app, just with the menu bar visible. All the solutions being proposed boil down to making it not really a full screen app anymore, which is not what I or the original poster want.

So I had a "duh" moment. I realized that I used the 'expand to full screen' arrows in the upper right of my Safari toolbar. If you are in full screen, you will not see them. How do you know you are in full screen? Autohide is on. Simply hit your escape button (esc). If nothing happens, click on a page, wait a moment, then hit escape. You will be dropped out of full screen, and Autohide is now off.

You will now see the expand to full screen arrows in the upper right of your Safari tool bar.

Try "Command-Shift-F" to get out of Full-Screen return your menu bar.

I'm new to apple, but, I tried the expand/shrink button at the top right corner (the two arrows) and I was able to have a (almost) full size page and see the Safari bar at the top with the clock, Batt life, etc. Then I went to view and clicked "show bookmarks bar". That seems to work for me.

Yes. Currently this is a workaround I also use.

The issue is that then the app is not flagged as full screen app. This then has effects on how the app responds. The app forexample doesn't get it's own space. This means four finger left/right scrolling doesn't work as expected.

webgeek24 wrote:

I have been trying to find a solution for this and can't seem to find one. I prefer keeping the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Has anyone figured out how to disable the auto hide of the menu bar?

Yes. Press the escape key.

control-command-f was what I was looking for, it leaves the menu bar on top with nothing else on the screen. Perfect! Except I can't do 3 finger scroll. Agh.

Note: I also disabled the display of my bottom app menu bar

Personally, I like the Cinch app. It lets you do more than just full screen. Drag a window to the top of the screen and it makes it full screen (menu intact). Drag to the right it takes up the right half of the screen. Drag to the left it takes up the left half of the screen. So, more useful than the standard OS full screen.

i too had this problem , there isn't a hide menu far option, your actually just in fullscreen.to get the menu bar to stay in view while in apps like safari you simply have to minimize the window and click and drag the corners to the edges to where it still shows the menu bar. 🙂 i hope this was helpful and i understand your frustration.

I want to disable the auto hide while IN "full screen" mode.

El Capitan now allows you to hide the menu bar by going to System Preferences, General, and checking the box "Automatically hide and show the menu bar"

Not jet..

any success yet?