Disable menu bar in fullscreen mode

[qqilihq]

Hi,

is it possible to disable the displaying of the menu bar when I touch the upper screen edge with my mouse cursor? It is pretty annoying for my workflow as I have my Ubuntu toolbar at the upper screen edge.

I already tried

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VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/Customizations noMenuBar,noStatusBar

, but this does not help for my particular problem.

Regards,
qqilihq.

[Perryg]

Have you tried to open the VBox program GUI and then in Settings -> General -> Advanced, take the check mark out of the mini toolbar?

[qqilihq]

Yes, but this has no effect on the Mac’s menu bar.

[Sasquatch]

So you're not talking about the mini-toolbar that was added in 3.0.0. In that case, you have to look for the problem on your Host itself. Do other fullscreen applications have the same problem (like browser, video, or picture viewer)?

[qqilihq]

There are fullscreen applications on the mac which do not show the menu bar when touching the upper screen edge (like Skim). So, in principle this is definitely possible in Mac OS X.

[mocha]

yep, i agree this can be real aggravating. and now with the mini-toolbar there is even less reason for the regular mac menu bar to pop down when you get too close to the top edge of the screen. there should be a preference to disable this.

[qqilihq]

… I found out, that there is already a ticket for this:

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4866

Let’s hope this will be added in the future.

[iVirtualize]

Have you tried to open the VBox program GUI and then in Settings -> General -> Advanced, take the check mark out of the mini toolbar?

I was looking for how to do this. I was blind, and didn't see it. Thanks.

[fhellwig]

I too want to echo my desire for disabling this feature. It's distracting to get the Mac OS menu bar when trying to close a maximized window (the close button is just a few pixels away).

It is also pretty useless since the dock does not persist. As an aside, I have found using spaces works especially well on the Mac - left side for Mac, right side for Windows VM (full screen). The intrusion of the menu bar distracts from this full screen experience.

[hooby3d]

If I disable mouse integration this stop happening. But it would be nice for it to work without doing that!