Remove menu bar from second monitor maverick

Uncheck this:

in system preferences>mission control

Keep in mind that this also disables the ability of having full screen apps at the same time on both displays.

Also, if your problem was simply that you really want to use that extra screen space, you can make an App Full Screen, and the menu bar gets hidden.

Can I ask why you don't like the menu bar, by the way? =) - Just curious, since it is something I had long wished they had added.

that is NOT a solution. If you do this, you have the same fullscreen ******** like in mountain lion! http://d.pr/i/6b9V

Apple has sort of screwed up the whole full-screen / multi-screen features of OSX. I get it's hard to achive it all in a "perfect way" for everyone but the so called "improved" multi-screen features of 10.9 add a number of issue on top of the "fixes".

1. Switching between apps with CMD + TAB is bugged with using 10.9 screen-setup. The OS doesn't understand what screen I'm using and the CMD + TAB feature shows up on screen 1 or screen 2. The only way I've found to controll this is by activating the DOCK on either screen which is a very bad solution.

2. Spotlight searching always follows the "active" screen. At least 10.9 understands what screen is my active one but in this case I never ever want screen 2 to have Spotlight on it. Very irriting.

3. Remembering application positions. If I open an app from the dock on screen 1, place it on screen 2 close it and again open it from the dock on screen 1 the app will open on screen 1 and not screen 2. Some apps will remember certain windows on the correct display. A solution is to open the app from the dock on the display you want it on. Very irritiating.

4. Swiching between apps is also bugged. Concider I have mail on screen 2 and a new mail window on screen 1. I CMD + TAB to Safari on screen 2 after starting to write the new mail on screen 1. No problems here. If I now howvever CMD + TAB back to mail, the last active window (new mail window on screen 1) won't be active. Very irritating.

As noted above, going back to what we had in 10.7 and 10.8 solves these issues but doesn't solve Apples horrible fullscreen app issues. I'd go as far as saying Apple hasn't really fixed anything in 10.9 - only cause more issues and confusing behavoir. Fullscreen apps are often very lacking in funktion, having safari or mail fullscreen renders them on a large screen very very limited compared to "maximized". It's also very confusion that you are required to travel between virtual desktops to use full-screen apps. I personally would prefer the option of "layered fullscreen apps". For example VLC allows me to work this way.

What is happening in Apple this days?

They are doing a lot o simple things very wrong.

Come on Apple, solve this problem in a Apple Like way!

Erikdv,

you bring up a lot of valid points.

please forward them to http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Don't agree with you there, they've given us more options, thou the newest feature might need more tweaking to get just perfect 🙂

I for one like the new independent displays wgt. Spaces and seperate menu line, which save you on the mouse travelling distance when needed to go to the menu of an App one and a while.

Only minor thing I so far have, is when using running X-windows on not-primary display, maximizing f.ex. an x-terminal window will hide thw window bar under the menu line, making it impossible to get to the window buttons.

That need to get fixed ImHO, but an option seperate from spaces to enable/disable just the multiple menu lines would be nice as well, as tarikfromch says, it might not always be wanted.

@erikdv (and others): if you don't like the new independent display/spaces, revert the option described by TheSmokeMonster and continue to have it the old mountain lion way.

Some better some way worse.

I dig the widget on an individual monitor.

However I sometimes want my windows to overlap both screens. With the separate spaces enabled the window will get cut off until it's 51% on one screen or the other.

So we have to choose between having toolbars on both screens or this. Or full screen options or ....

you get my point.

Frustrating...

Not sure I agree on the split window issue. Conceptually, the second screen can be an extension of your existing screen - 1 vertical display, or a separate display (space). It can't really be both. Having used spaces for a long time, I have never considered having a window split between 2 spaces?

I realize this is a rather old issue, but I had hoped that Apple, Inc would fix it by now. For our presentation program, we would prefer a separate space for the main presentation window, typically a projector or video screen (also from which we video capture), while keeping normal spaces for the main display. Currently, we have to tell the users to turn off separate spaces. Otherwise, we get the $%^&* menu bar showing on the presentation screen. Surely, there should be some way to kill the menu bar on that screen when using separate spaces.