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OSX Leopard: Hiding the Menu Bar?

Postby Cognitive Gear » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:34 pm

Is it possible to auto-hide the menu bar in osx like you can auto hide the task bar in Windows (Or even like the dock in osx)? I can't seem to find a setting for it....
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Postby blkmage » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:50 pm

No.
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:01 pm

Is there nothing under Dock Preferences underneath the Apple? That's where I'd look first.
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Postby Cognitive Gear » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:26 pm

blkmage (post: 1282975) wrote:No.


That's unfortunate. Considering that they have an auto-hide feature for the dock, it seems a bit ridiculous.

Radical Dreamer (post: 1282983) wrote:Is there nothing under Dock Preferences underneath the Apple? That's where I'd look first.


I've looked everywhere. Sadly, it seems that the folks at Apple have not seen fit to bestow the gift of a clear desktop upon me.

[s]Microsoft offers more choices than Apple.[/s]

EDIT: What? No strikethrough outside of chat?
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Postby SnEptUne » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:29 am

How about this? http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

You may see this link for more details: http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/164749/possible-hide-apple-menu-bar-os/
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Postby Shiningmonk_e » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:57 pm

Click the top left apple, go down to dock, click "Turn Hiding On". This is coming from a fellow mac user. Macs Rock ^_^
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Postby Mithrandir » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:30 pm

I'm not sure why everyone is giving you bad or wrong information. Either follow sm's instructions, or just right-click (or control-click, if you can't right click) on the little dashed line and select "auto-hide." You've been able to do this since the first version of OS X in the late 90s.

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Postby Cognitive Gear » Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:06 am

Shiningmonk_e (post: 1283344) wrote:Click the top left apple, go down to dock, click "Turn Hiding On". This is coming from a fellow mac user. Macs Rock ^_^


Mithrandir (post: 1283468) wrote:I'm not sure why everyone is giving you bad or wrong information. Either follow sm's instructions, or just right-click (or control-click, if you can't right click) on the little dashed line and select "auto-hide." You've been able to do this since the first version of OS X in the late 90s.

See attached screen shot.


Thanks for the help, but I was looking for a way to hide the menu bar at the top of the screen, not the dock. It's probably a bit of an unusual request, actually.
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Postby Mithrandir » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:39 am

OH! That's not something I've seen anyone ask for. You can do it, but it might be more trouble than it's worth (coming from a programming standpoint, I look for the plist entries first):

1. Find the application you would like it hidden for.
2. Open the Info.plist file in the n.App/Contents/ folder (you'll probably have to right-click or control-click on the app and select "Show Contents."
3. Add a key for LSUIPresentationMode and set it as 4 (integer xml tag) just under the DICT entry.

If you don't wanna do that, you can download MenuShade from nullriver.com (products tab).

Sorry for the confusion!

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