Full screen, sliding Mac banner on top....

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R*
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Full screen, sliding Mac banner on top....

Post by R* »

On Mavericks, running latest VBox. Not that it matters much but Guest is Linux Ubuntu 12.04.2.


In full-screen, when the mouse touches the top of the screen, the Mac status/menu sliding banner is triggered and remains for one second.
Since it appears right on Ubuntu menu - which is Ubuntu's default and I would like to keep it that way - it is pretty annoying.

Of course I need sometimes the Mac menu, but that's may 5% compared to the Ubuntu menu (when running the Guest in full screen).

So I guess this is a Mac issue (that banner appears in all full screen applications), but since there is no fix Mac side [ being able to customize the time the banner remains on top for instance ], is there any thing that could be done VirtualBox side? A marvelous special VBoxManage command?
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Re: Full screen, sliding Mac banner on top....

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Perryg
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Re: Full screen, sliding Mac banner on top....

Post by Perryg »

If you are talking about the VBox banner you can simply disable it in the guest settings and use the (host+home) hot-key to open the menu.
R*
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Re: Full screen, sliding Mac banner on top....

Post by R* »

Actually I'm talking about the Mac OS X banner that comes when the mouse hits the top of the screen, when in an Full screen app [eg VBox].
That bar appears for a couple seconds, and hides the top Ubuntu menu [please see first post].
(which is actually the regular Mac top menu when -not- in full screen)
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Re: Full screen, sliding Mac banner on top....

Post by socratis »

I think it is an OSX thing. I am running 10.6.8 and it exhibits the same behavior. I tried to see if the workaround on the bug report #12292 to no avail (add the LSUIPresentationMode key with a value of 4). I even read about the different modes in Apple's reference documentation and I tried all of them. Same results; the menu bar pops up, even when hidden and (supposedly) suppressed.
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