Mac OS Menu Bar

gbcurbana

Hi,

First, thanks for what you are doing. OpenLP has been the very best solution for my workflow, where I use it to display verses, songs, slides, and videos on a livestream, and I can react realtime to whatever is going on in the service regardless of whether it was explicitly planned.

I have a Mac running Sonoma with the built-in display plus two external monitors. OpenLP outputs to one external monitor and the OBS stream outputs fullscreen on the other for the purpose of viewing the service in other parts of the building.

However, I'm still using 2.4.6 because 2.4.6 doesn't show the menu bar on the presentation screen. I would love to upgrade, but the menu bar is what's preventing me. I know there is a workaround (dating back to 2014) to uncheck "Displays have separate spaces," but that causes other problems with OBS. (Specifically, when OBS goes to "full screen mode" while "Displays have separate spaces" is unchecked, it blacks out all other displays, including the one OpenLP is running on.) So OBS, and presumably any software that uses "full screen mode" isn't compatible with this setting.

I hear that you're working on OpenLP 4.0. Any chance this can be fixed in the future?

Thanks, and God bless you for your work!

jlgtx

In System Settings --> Control Center, down at the bottom, enable "Automatically hide and show the menu bar."

gbcurbana

"In Full Screen Only" seems like it should work, but it's like the Mac doesn't know/recognize that OpenLP's projector is in "full screen".
"Always" hides it, but it reappears on all monitors (including the projector) when the mouse goes to the top of any screen.
"Desktop Only" hides it on all screens, but it reappears on all the monitors that are used by the program that is in focus. So, if I'm actively using OpenLP, and I go to the top of the screen, it shows on both the main screen and the projector. If some other program is in focus, it only appears on the main screen. So, this doesn't work either.
"Never" obviously doesn't work.

There must be a way to do this programmatically despite the setting for "Automatically show and hide the menu bar", because other programs are able to do it. For example, in OBS, I can do a fullscreen preview on another monitor, and the menu bar isn't there, even when the setting is disabled. Of course, this does mean that if it was this way, then you definitely have to have "Displays have separate spaces" enabled, because if I don't, then OBS blacks out all the other screens, as I describe above, and presumably if OpenLP worked this way, then it would do the same. But maybe there could be an option whether you have "Displays have separate spaces" enabled or not so OpenLP could match the proper way for that setting. I'm not an application programmer, but I think it could be in this article: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/going-full-screen#

Anyway, thank you for your help!