Mac App Bar Hide
And as mentioned earlier, Apple also doesn’t let you hide third-party icons, the way Windows has for years and third party Mac apps like Bartender ($15) make possible. If the clutter is all too much for you, you can hide the menu bar entirely until you need it. How to Rearrange Menu Bar Icons in Older Versions of OS X. Select Hide All Apps in the Preferences to do this. Then click Record Shortcut and choose your key combination to set. From there, either click Hides in the menu bar and choose Hide All Apps.
| Click here to return to the 'Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis' hint |
I am just using the dock hiding part of this for some app's you just have to add them to a list under Special Features and set dock hiding to ON
This is only for the dock hiding part
Be sure that it goes in alphabetical order, otherwise it won't work (i.e. LSUIPresentationMode goes after LSMinimumSystemVersion but before NSAppleScriptEnabled).
What?
Dictionary files do not have to be in order. They don't even preserve order. As long as you keep the key and value together (i.e. don't put the key at the top and the value at the bottom, or any other combination of non-adjacent positions), and don't mix them into any of the other keys or values or between the key and value of any other pair, it will work, regardless of whether you keep it sorted.
This is fantastic. I was actually working on a picture-frame and info station based on an aging G3 Powerbook. I needed an easy way to hide the menu-bar and here it is! (This also works on the Finder.)
Now if only there were an easy way to make this change system-wide instead of per-app..
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Mac App Bar Hide Bar
I remember looking at menushade a while back but didn't recall transparency being an option. I see that it now is, however, it still leaves the menu bar shadow visible, and the space is still unusable by anything but the menubar.
What I'd love is something like menushade, but allows you to use the space the menubar usually takes up (which this hint allows you to do).
Menufela (ninjakitten.us) allows hiding the menu bar for all apps.
Doesn't quite work with Photoshop CS3. I launch Photoshop and the menubar and dock both disappear. But when Photoshop is fully loaded they both return. Any ideas?
You are not alone. I tried this on multiple applications and it did not work as stated. The dock and menu would be hidden while the application was loading, but then as soon as the application was loaded, both the menu and dock reappear. I give it 1 star for getting my hopes up and wasting my time.
Fantastic hint! This is something I've wanted to do with my favourite app, Google Earth, for some time, but I have not wanted to install APE. Full screen viewing goodness with just a couple of moments copy and paste. Well done, cheers.
We are going to appreciate this when we set up kiosks and public displays. Super hint!
.. which has never performed reliably for me, in all the years it's been out. Editing plists is a cinch, tho, with Property List Editor, whiich gets hauled out of the Developer Folder and put right in Utilities. It comes in handy sooo many ways.
Dockless does something completely different: It hides an app from appearing *inside* the Dock and it *removes* its menubar for good. In other words: Dockless turns a full app into an 'invisible' background process. I use a couple of apps that require such a treatment although the developers might have done it themselves in the first place, e.g. Hardware Growler or the PageSpinner helper app PageViewer.
I've tried applying this on finder, works like charm exept it's disabling spotlight… :/
/best-app-to-send-pdf-fax-from-mac.html. Any idea ?
How did you manage to do this with the finder? The hint works for firefox and mail for me but, I'd like to do this with preview and finder too.
However, one thing that should be mentioned, if you decide to do this with the Property List Editor (recommended), you need to change the Class for the LSUIPresentationMode entry you create to Number. By default it will come up as String, which will not work. Then for the Value field, put in 4.
Why the hell would you want to go full-screen in a document window, unless you're some sort of one-track minded PC user?
Mac windows don't maximize--they zoom to fit their contents. Where it makes sense to present an application full-screen, such as in QuickTime Player or the iTunes visualizer, that option is provided. Anywhere else, maximized windows are sacrilege.
This works less than perfectly for me.
You can hide the menu bar in the Finder, but Spotlight stops working.
When using BBEdit with the Finder's menu bar hidden, the Finder's menu bar becomes active when trying to use BBEdit's menu options.
In Firefox, the menus don't work, at least not the history—this was enough to make me remove the edit from Firefox's info.plist.
Did I do something wrong? Hasn't anyone else experienced this behavior?
I get the same behaviour in firefox, but if i want to use the history i can choose 'show in sidebar' and it works, i think it's a small price to pay, although i would like it to work properly.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I signed up just to say thanks. I've been needing this for so long - I use remote desktop in x11 (best windows client) and it's a 'mare always having things stuck under the menu.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
How can I get this to work with Microsoft Word 2004? Does it only work with Cocoa apps?
This still seems to me like an excellent hint if I were able to implement it properly however so far it has only succeeded in nearly giving me a stroke..
I am a newcomer to the 'mac' world and have only had my macPro (running leopard) a few weeks so it was perhaps slightly over zealous of me to dive into adding lines of code however I was careful to input the code as instructed above and made sure there were no errors..obviously I did something wrong though as I am now unable to boot my machine into Leopard and get instead an unresponsive blue screen of death. I do not even get as far as the log in screen.
I have tried using 'command' + 'S' at start-up. After running 'fsck -y' it tells me the 'HD is ok'.
I originally applied the additional lines of code outlined to the safari info.plist file.
Any and every bit of help would be tremendously appreciated. I am at a total (and panicked) loss..(I dont even care if it involves a fresh intall and loss of all existing data but the cd drawer wont even respond to allow me to insert the Leopard disk!)
Back in the earlier days of the Mac, OS X used to have a built-in feature that let you focus in on a single window while hiding all the others. For whatever reason, Apple decided to get rid of that. As a result, it’s also now difficult to hide all your open windows to protect against wandering eyes nearby.
Fortunately, a new Mac app called Hides restores these features. The app lets you use your Mac in “Single App Mode” as well as quickly hide all of your windows with a single click or keyboard shortcut. Hides is $4.99 in the Mac App Store but well worth it if you’re often in a busy environment but need to get some private browsing done.
Hide Your Entire Desktop
If you want to hide your entire desktop with Hides, utilize the Preferences panel that opens upon first launching the application. You can decide whether you want to hide every running application or just use Single App Mode. For our purposes, make sure Single App Mode in the left sidebar is switched off.
While Hides sits in your menu bar for easy access, you might want to set a keyboard shortcut hide the windows even quicker. Select Hide All Apps in the Preferences to do this. Then click Record Shortcut and choose your key combination to set.
From there, either click Hides in the menu bar and choose Hide All Apps or just use your keyboard shortcut. All your windows will click vanish from the desktop.
Tip: The application icons will still appear in your dock even if the windows are gone. A good way to quickly get rid of this is to hide the dock too by using the shortcut Command+Option+D.Hide Individual Applications
To hide individual applications on your Mac, you’ll want to head back into the Hides preferences, accessible via the menu bar option. This time, click the switch on the left that turns on Single App Mode.
Single App Mode essentially only lets you use one application at a time and it will automatically hide the rest. If you have Safari, Messages, Calendar and Mail open and Single App Mode is enabled, you’ll only be able to see one of the four that you choose. If you decide you only want to see Safari but then attempt to open Messages, the Messages window will open and Safari will automatically minimize.
This is a great tool if you need laser focus on a specific application and don’t want the distracting clutter behind it on your desktop. Hides lets you pick a keyboard shortcut to enable Single App Mode too, so take advantage of that if you want quick access.
If you need even more privacy on your computer, do check out our handy guide to not only hiding files and folders on your Mac, but password protecting them too.
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