Disable auto hide menu bar when using full screen apps

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.

Not jet..

any success yet?

would be a nice feature. Annoying to to be able to see battery status when working off a mbp

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.

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

Use the "View" drop down menu to set your Tool, Tabs, & Status bar.

May have to re-do afer upgrade/update!

Yes my screen was making me DIZZY!

I would also like to know how to do this....thanks but I'm not interested in a "work around". I have a feeling this is something Apple will have to fix in future upgrades of Lion

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.

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

Exactly.

hit escape then use the arrows to stretch the display out to the margins of the laptop screen...just lucked into finding that out.....

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.