Hide projector's menubar on 10.9 when using "Displays have separate spaces"
Hi,
I recently moved to Mac OS X 10.9 mavericks and I much prefer to work in "Displays have separate spaces" mode (although I wish they just kept it like 10.6 and before where fullscreen apps left your other display alone and there was no kludgy concept of "spaces" with them).
But when I want to project a fullscreen jitter patch for performance, I want to hide that 2nd menubar that shows up on the projector. I can use fsmenubar 0 to the jit.window object, but then that kills the menubar on the main screen (and the dock when in max if hiding is on) too, and I sometimes want to have that handy in case something goes wrong when performing (usually i'm also doing audio performance on the same computer).
I've found that if i send ";max hidemenubar" instead of fsmenubar 0, I still get the dock in max and the menu bar is hidden but comes down when the mouse is placed at the top of the screen - like dock hiding. It still shows up on the external display/projection when I access it in max, but this should be very infrequent when performing. It helps if you use a black background image on the display so the menubar is darker.
I guess this is an OK compromise, but eventually, if max could do it, i'd love to be able to turn on or off menubars on individual displays, now that we have them in 10.9.
Anyone have any better ideas or thoughts on this?
Before the performance, I disable the separate spaces in the settings, this fixes the issue altogether.
Cheers, Igor
yeah - i guess that's the way to do it. That's what I the other night. But its annoying that it requires a logout. Especially if you forget and have set up all your patches (and in my case Mainstage and Logic and CueMix) already…