How to remove second menu bar? And more...

[BuDWiZe]

iLLucionist yeah i was thinking the same thing
matthewadams thanks i will give that a go

 

[merckens]

im not sure what is going on but I've just hooked up to my TV as a second screen to run plex. second screen has the top menu and it doesn't go away even when full screening plex/vlc/mplayerx ect the menu still sits at top on top of the program

does anyone have any tips on how to get rid of the menu bar on the second screen?

If you open an application on your machine and drag its window over to your secondary monitor, the translucent menu bar will *always* show on the secondary monitor. The external monitor is a separate space (unless you've deselected that option in System Preferences, which is kind of a silly thing to do), so if you drag a window over to the second screen, the application is actually running out of your machine's space and not from the secondary monitor's space. So in the eyes of the external monitor, the focus is still on your machine's space when you're running a dragged VLC or browser window (or whatever application) in fullscreen mode on the secondary monitor. So it displays that obnoxious translucent menu bar.

So long story short (too late!), literally all you need to do - there are other ways, but this is the easiest - is close the application, put the focus on your secondary monitor's space (by opening a finder window in that space or switching to an app already running that was opened in that space or using the dock from within that space, etc.), and then reopen the application from within the secondary monitor's space. Now when you go fullscreen, the menu bar won't be there, because the focus of the application is in the space it's running fullscreen in.