Hide Menu Bar Bug

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Hide Menu Bar Bug

So I like to hide my menu bar on my Macbook pro,

However all windows open on my mac at some point change position/resize to allow a gap for the menu bar at the top, I find myself constantly having to resize them,

Sometimes I am unable to resize them until i quit the app and restart,

Is it possible to request a fix to this bug?

I want all windows to be the size of the screen all the time without having to go full screen mode

Right now Im on high Sierra but before updating this was also happening

Thanks

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Jan 11, 2018 2:52 AM

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TheGoga Author

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Jan 11, 2018 7:45 AM in response to Kurt Lang

Thanks for the thoughtful reply,

However I am not trying to use full screen,

When I say "Menu Bar" I mean the apple menu bar at the top which by default always appear,

but i set it to hide after a few seconds and appear again when I hover the cursor at the top of the screen.

The first screenshot is how it appears with the apple menu bar hidden, the dock hidden and "google chrome" resized to fit the whole screen, thats how i want things to stay always but OS X automatically resizes it to the second screenshot after a few times switching applications/windows

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TheGoga Author

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Jan 11, 2018 7:51 AM in response to tygb

Thank you for the thoughtful reply,

To clarify, I want to have the top apple menu bar hiding itself when i don't use it thats not the issue,

The issue is OS X automatically resizes my windows to allow a gap the size of my menu bar at the top...

There is a possibility that the "ask to keep changes when closing documents" tick box might help,

I'll let you know if it does!

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TheGoga Author

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Jan 11, 2018 7:17 AM in response to John Galt

I'm not even going to waist my sarcasm on you,

if you don't want to be open minded fine, just be careful next time you reply a "no" as you might be missing something,

I want it to stay like this all the time:

without the system changing it to this:

Thanks to anyone open minded that wants to be helpful 🙂

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tygb

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Jan 11, 2018 7:39 AM in response to TheGoga

Open system preferences > General check these two boxes .

And if the box of automatically hide and show the menu bar is unchecked

In your second screen shot a gap is shown between top menu bar and edge of the window .

You are dragging the window in the bottom side so there is a gap shown between top and the edge of the window to resize it again drag it upwards so that it will fit the screen .

To show the menu bar icons , again check the box of automatically hide and show the menu bar .

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TheGoga Author

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Jan 11, 2018 8:04 AM in response to Kurt Lang

Yep, I think its a bug since it works fine until i start switching active windows, look at the beauty working well:

and here is the dock showing (also seems to have the same problem if you look at my other screenshot number 2):

**updated for the right screenshot

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Jan 11, 2018 8:14 AM in response to TheGoga

TheGoga wrote:

Is it possible to request a fix to this bug?

I want all windows to be the size of the screen all the time without having to go full screen mode.

It's not a bug. Full Screen and Maximize Screen work as intended.

You can request a change here Feedback - macOS - Apple

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Kurt Lang

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Jan 11, 2018 7:35 AM in response to TheGoga

It isn't possible to get an app to do what you want in the first screen shot. The way you show it, you still (somehow) want to continue seeing the close/minimize/resize buttons of the foreground app. That's not full screen mode.

It appears you're showing Firefox. I had no problem putting into full screen mode by clicking the right resize button. That puts the menu bar off the screen and the associated buttons for Firefox. It stays that way until I intentionally move the mouse all the way to the top of the screen. Then the menu bar appears so I can get at the close/minimize/resize buttons.

If I Command+Tab to another app while Firefox is in full screen mode, it slides off the screen and brings the chosen app to the foreground. When I Command+Tab back to Firefox, it slides back to the foreground, still in full screen mode.

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Kurt Lang

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Jan 11, 2018 7:55 AM in response to TheGoga

Ah, gotcha. I had completely forgotten there's now an option to hide the menu bar since I never have that on.

What it looks like the OS is doing is automatically making room for where the menu bar would be, if it were showing. I don't know if that's a bug, or intentional.

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tygb

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Jan 11, 2018 8:48 AM in response to TheGoga

If you intentionally make a gap between top menu bar and edge of the window , then quit window / safari and again open it the window will refit and no gap will be seen in-between , but when i tried to shorten the window from left and right side of the screen , then quit the window again opened it the left and right gap was shown but the top edge was filled up .

So , its a what to say you can send the feedback the link is there in the thread .

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John Galt

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Jan 11, 2018 7:09 AM in response to TheGoga

I want all windows to be the size of the screen all the time without having to go full screen mode

So you want to do everything Full Screen mode does, but without using Full Screen mode? No.

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