4/16/2023 0 Comments Mac no menu bar in second monityIdeally, an update to OS X will separate the menu bar setting from the Spaces setting, into an optional and unrelated adjustment somewhere in Display preferences, similar to how you can indicate which display the menu bar shows up on. ![]() Yes, the secondary display is still entirely usable, so long as full screen apps are not used, since full screen apps become the “Spaces” this setting adjusts. That’s a fairly significant side effect and it’s important to understand that this basically causes OS X El Capitan, OS X Yosemite, and OS X Mavericks multi-display behavior to be like that of OS X Mountain Lion and other prior versions of Mac OS X. Toggling “Displays have separate spaces” to OFF does not play well with full-screen app mode, thus if you like how Mavericks handles full screen apps on multiple displays, you will not want to turn this feature off. The primary display also becomes where new windows and alert dialogs appear by default. Note: if you toggle this off you may wish to set the primary display again to indicate which screen you want the Mac menu bar and Dock to appear on. Log out and log back in to the user account for the change to take effect (or reboot, but logging out and back in is usually much faster).Uncheck the box next to “Displays have separate Spaces”. ![]() Open System Preferences from the Apple menu and choose the “Mission Control” preference panel.This will remove the menu bar from the external display completely, including the translucent display focus indicator: Disable the Menu Bar on External Displays in OS X Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan OS X provides a setting to hide the external display menu bar (or show it, if it’s hidden for some reason) if you don’t like it and the whole dimming indicator thing, though the wording of the setting doesn’t offer much hint that it has anything to do with menu bars or secondary screens.
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