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I'm coming from PC-land (Windows / X (Linux / FreeBSD)).

I would like the "App Menu" (Microsoft Teams Edit View Window Help) to stay with the application window and the Red Yellow Green buttons. I am on a system with an external monitor and it is awkward to have to go to the primary display to get to a menu option that is on the external display. In any case, I don't want to move the mouse very far.

Is this possible?

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  • Have you tried with the external monitor as the "Main Display"?
    – agarza
    Commented Oct 19, 2022 at 21:29

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The menu bar will appear on all displays if you go to System Preferences > Mission Control, and tick the setting "Displays have separate Spaces".

There is no way to customise the interface to put the menubar in a window. Some menus, e.g. "Window", control things relating to more than the current window, and/or the application as a whole.

Also remember that unlike Windows, each document window is not a separate instance of the application: the application process can still be running without any document windows. (Though apps that can only have one window should quit when that window is closed.)

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  • Ok, I have that off so it behaves more like what I'm familiar with. I was afraid I couldn't change that. Since Apple is FreeBSD, perhaps I can just boot up to a terminal and start X11 :).
    – John Doe
    Commented Oct 20, 2022 at 22:26
  • @JohnDoe X11 is not included with macOS, though there is an implementation for Mac called Xquartz. It would be a lie to say that macOS "is" FreeBSD.
    – benwiggy
    Commented Oct 21, 2022 at 10:57
  • Ok, I won't debate the semantics of 'lie' as you're welcome to your opinions. I'm not sure how useful XQuartz would be though, thanks for the information, perhaps it may be useful.
    – John Doe
    Commented Oct 24, 2022 at 15:35

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