Remove menu bar from second monitor?

[andyging3]

The "solution" to this issue is to uncheck "Displays have separate Spaces" under System Preferences -> Mission Control.

I use Proselect viewing software and this solved the issue. Many thanks.

 

[xeronozoio]

thanks a lot!!!

Thats not a bug, its a new feature. In my opinion, a very welcome one. It goes away for me if I select Full Screen from the menubar... Its a pain in the rear if you are using two displays to have to move the cursor 27 inches to the left (Thundebolt display), then 15 more inches to the left (laptop screen) to reach the File Menu.

I can not even imagine the frustration of someone using three thunderbolt displays on a mac pro, and NOT having easy menu bar access.

Selecting Full screen from the menubar made the damn bar go away for good! thanks again.

 

[adamj575]

ive been trying to figure this out too...ill give it a shot!

 

[Ardmanz]

Has anyone found a solution to this? I've tried everything suggested in this thread to no avail.

Is this a Mavericks or a VLC issue?

 

[merckens]

When I go full screen on my second monitor the menu bar is always present. I'm watching MLB.tv in full screen but that darn menu bar is still there. Any ideas on how to remove it or auto hide it? Thanks.

Edit: Okay, Safari will show full screen video without the menu bar, Chrome Canary will not. The question remains though, I'd love to not show a menu bar on the second monitor.

Scott

For anyone looking for a solution to the original problem or one like it, the answer has already been given by DOWNSIDEUP:

When I fullscreen an app on my secondary display, the menu bar hides, but menu bar background remains and the app doesn't really stretch fullscreen.

To fix this, quit the app completely and reopen it from your secondary display. Then everything should be fine.

Just thought I'd share.

So, for example, if you open a movie in VLC and drag it over to your secondary monitor or (as in the case of the original post) you open an MLB.tv game and drag it over, 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 in full screen on the secondary monitor. So it displays that obnoxious translucent menu bar.

So long story short (too late!), literally all you need to do is close the application, put the focus on your secondary monitor's space (by switching to an app running in that space or using the dock on that space or whatever), 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.

(Side note: When Scott says, "Okay, Safari will show full screen video without the menu bar, Chrome Canary will not", I guarantee he opened Safari from within the secondary monitor's space, but the Chrome process was the same one he initially started on his machine's space. I would bet the farm that if he quit Chrome and reopened it from within the secondary monitor, it would display the MLB.tv game without the menu bar.)

 

[WillSR20]

For anyone looking for a solution to the original problem or one like it, the answer has already been given by DOWNSIDEUP:



So, for example, if you open a movie in VLC and drag it over to your secondary monitor or (as in the case of the original post) you open an MLB.tv game and drag it over, 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 in full screen on the secondary monitor. So it displays that obnoxious translucent menu bar.

So long story short (too late!), literally all you need to do is close the application, put the focus on your secondary monitor's space (by switching to an app running in that space or using the dock on that space or whatever), 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.

(Side note: When Scott says, "Okay, Safari will show full screen video without the menu bar, Chrome Canary will not", I guarantee he opened Safari from within the secondary monitor's space, but the Chrome process was the same one he initially started on his machine's space. I would bet the farm that if he quit Chrome and reopened it from within the secondary monitor, it would display the MLB.tv game without the menu bar.)

EDIT:Never mind, I'm incompetent; all it took was a quick update of VLC. I was on 2.0.3 and just upgraded to 2.1.5.

None of this works for me. I've tried everything you mentioned here, but still the grey bar remains.