Auto-Hide Menu Bar broken on macOS Mojave

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Auto-Hide Menu Bar broken on macOS Mojave

I like a full screen always so I auto hide the menu bar and the dock. The dock will always show when moving the cursor to the bottom. However, the menu bar is sporadic. It will show sometimes and not others. In order to get it to show, I must switch windows or applications.

This is a horrible user experience and I am very surprised this simple bug exists, has existed, and has not been fixed since macOS Sierra, nearly two and a half years.

MacBook Pro, macOS Mojave (10.14.1)

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 9:39 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 5, 2018 9:58 AM in response to ericihsmarkit

While I do not usually have the menu bar hidden, I hid it just for testing and I cannot reproduce your problem: moving the mouse pointer up and down a number of times it is always responsive showing and hiding the menu bar as expected.

Since you appear to have several different problems, I'm thinking that they may be specific to your installation. I recommend you run Etrecheck and post its report here so we can look for possible causes of problems.

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Answer 2

Nov 5, 2018 10:16 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

While hiding the menu bar, did you have multiple apps open and expanded to full screen on the desktop (not full screen)?

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Answer 3

Nov 5, 2018 10:31 AM in response to ericihsmarkit

When I tested previously I had several open applications but none in fullscreen mode.

I retested just now, with some applications in fullscreen mode and not others. I have a total of 10 applications open at the moment. No problem whatsoever in making the menu bar appear when I move the cursor to the top of the screen.

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Answer 4

Nov 5, 2018 10:45 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

I would also like to confirm you have the application stretched to the very top of the screen, covering the place where the unhidden menu bar would be.

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Auto-Hide Menu Bar broken on macOS Mojave

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