Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Can someone tell me how to get my taskbar from disappearing? I've done something to make it disappear when my mouse moves away from it, and I don't know how to fix it. Can someone provide me with the steps to get it back?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
The app you are on is in full screen. Like if you are on say Firefox, go to the top left corner below the apple there will be the red, yellow and green circles, press the green one, this should take you back out of full screen and your task bar should be there. Hope that helps
The app you are on is in full screen. Like if you are on say Firefox, go to the top left corner below the apple there will be the red, yellow and green circles, press the green one, this should take you back out of full screen and your task bar should be there. Hope that helps
And I wish that it worked for me. Apparently, Waterfox doesn't have this option in the View menu. (I've also looked at the Waterfox preferences.) Does this feature occur somewhere else in that browser? I'll try Safari, but I wish I didn't have to.
Thanks, anyway, superjackiecruz.
I had this happen too. I clicked the third grey circle on top left (to get out of full screen mode). Your app will shrink now and show your dock on bottom and taskbar on top of screen. Then I just hovered over the edges of the app window until a double arrow showed and clicked and dragged the edges of the app to the edge of the screen to make it large. Hope this helps.
I am having that same issue with the taskbar and doctors appearing. I wanted to remain and not have to scroll my mouse over it.
I do not have that option to hide and show menu bar only the option to use dark menu bar and dock
I am using Excel. The bottom bar where all the spreadsheets are named keeps compressing and the names disappear and now the whole work book keeps freezing on my and I can't maneuver either to the right or left to view and edit my spreadsheets within a workbook. Help
You are referring to Dock. To make it permanent on the screen, open System Preferences > Dock, and unmark "Automatically hide and show the Dock"
I assume you mean the Dock.
Try any of these:
Select the Apple symbol in left end of the menu bar.
Select Dock.
Select Turn Hiding Off.
or
In Sys Prefs. Dock uncheck "Automatically hide & show the Dock"
or
Cmd-Alt-D
Thank you for your reply, but I don't mean the dock on the bottom, I'm talking about the toolbar on the top. When I move my mouse it disappears, when I bring my mouse back up there it reappears. I want it to stop doing that.
I think you have put an app in full-screen mode. To get out of full-screen mode, move the cursor to the top right of the display and press the blue rectangle, so the application will be showed as a window again
Thenk you mende1, but that didn't work either. I'm stumped.
What apps are you currently running?
A currently running app will have a small blue bubble under its icon in the Dock and when you position the cursor over the Dock icon the app's name will appear.
By any chance are you running an app named Bartender, MenuShade, or any other app which hides your menu bar?
Not running any of the above. Let me explain what happens:
As I wrte this, I can see my 3 color radio buttons, the small book (show all bookmarks) and the 9 small squares that shows top sites. Next to that I have some of my favorite sites that I click onto. To the right there is an arrow pointing to the right which shows more bookmarks. To the right of that is the plus sign to create a new tab. Above the plus sign are two arrows, one going up, the other down. When I click on that, the forward and backward arrows appear, my mail icon, printer icon, cloud, plus a couple of others then i hvae the tool bar where I can type in a web address (www.). When I bring my mouse to above that, my apple, Safari, File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Window and Help return. To the right of that is the sound control date, blue tooth symbol, date, spotlight and the two arrows going up and down. What I'm looking to do is not have it disappear anymore. Anyone who can help, it would be appreciated.
Thanks.
When you click on the up/down arrows, do they back-highlight in blue? If so, then you are in Full Screen Mode. The menu bar will disappear in that mode. If you click those blue up/down arrows again, you will leave Full Screen and the Menu bar should stay visible.
So, if you do that, and are out of Full Screen, does the menu bar come back?
If you restart, does it fix it?
If that doesn't help, can you boot into Safe Mode and see if everything works correctly?
If by "up and down arrows" is meant the ones in the upper right corner of the Safari window, I have those as well.
Except when I click the "enter full screen" arrows they no longer appear, and I click Escape to exit full-screen view.
How do I get my task bar to stop disappearing?
