View all commentsĪnd unfortunately, for now, you can’t reorder settings, change the main window to show alphabetically (there is a workaround for this below), or remove/sort them by recently used or favorites. Whoever thought that a tiny vertical scrolling list with hidden features was a good idea for a widescreen 5K display should be removed from UX responsibilities. System Preferences certainly wasn't perfect but, even with your attempt to help, System Settings is objectively inferior. ![]() But that’s also *not* it, as it then constantly hides the menu bar on the main display, which I quite dislike.Easily the worst thing to be introduced to MacOS for as long as I can remember. Another possibility is telling macOS to hide the menu bar automatically. Your solution is helpful and preferable to the default, but it means it’s *never* there. ![]() That’s perfect! Now on the secondary display, it’s *always* there. When I come out of full screen, it reappears. What I was looking for was a way for macOS to do simply as it does on my main display! On my MBP screen, when I use quickview on full screen, the menu bar disappears. I actually find it fairly useful at times. You see, I don’t really mind the menu bar on my external monitor. One small problem: upon logging back on as per your instructions, I realized the results weren’t *exactly* what I was looking for. While you wrote it a few years back, I was lucky to still find this helpful post. The menu bar is useful in some situations - and you can always reverse this process if you want it back - but it’s nice to know how to get rid of it, isn’t it? Except for that darn menu bar, as you can see in this subsequent photo of SlingTV on the external monitor: And here’s a handy tip: When you do go to log out, check the window that pops up:Ĭhoose “Reopen windows when logging back in”, click “Log Out” and once you log in again everything will be as it was. ![]() Pah! You don’t need to do that!Īnd, as you can see, choose “Log Out”. What’s interesting is that most people don’t know how to log out of their Mac system, and even in the other tutorials I’ve read on this subject, the writers say that you should just restart the system. When you do change the setting, by the way, it’ll tell you something interesting: What they’re thinking with this description I’m not sure, I’d have it instead read “Show menu bar on external displays” but at least you now know. You’ll want to click on “Mission Control”…Īs I’ve highlighted, the puzzlingly labelled “Displays have separate Spaces” controls the menu bar on the second, external display. To start, go to System Preferences… from the Apple icon on the top left. Turns out you can turn off the menu bar on external monitors in Mac OS X, but it’s not where you’d think it would be… Works great except, like in your situation, it’s really annoying to have the app “full screen” and still have a menu bar along the top of the TV itself.įun to watch the movie on TV from my computer, but, um, the blue menu bar? No thanks! Works well, particularly with my SlingTV app which lets me ignore the lame channel line up of most hotels and instead watch the channels I prefer, or anything out of iTunes, Netflix, etc. I must say you have good timing with this question submission because I’ve been on the road for a few days, plugging my own MacBook Pro into the HDMI port of the TV in my hotel room and running it as a second display.
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