Questions tagged [fullscreen]
Full-screen mode is a feature by which supported apps can present a window that takes up the whole screen, with no Dock or Menu Bar visible.
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How to open new Safari window on primary display
I am using a monitor as my second display for my MacBook Air. I have Netflix fullscreen on my second display. Whenever I want a Safari window on my primary display, I have to go to the second display, ...
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Full screen app in a small window (Picture in picture)
I'm currently running Mac OS X 10.10.1. Is there a way to get a full screen app into a window?
Example:
I have netflix running in a web browser full screen on one desktop. I'd like to take that full ...
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Easily check time in Yosemite full screen mode
I'm trying to embrace Yosemite's full screen by default. Mostly I'm getting used to and liking it... except for the fact that without a menu bar I can't check the time at a glance.
What are some easy ...
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Fullscreen a running application from the terminal
I'm trying to pull a prank on a friend. I have a shell script that continuously cats a C source code file so make it look like the terminal is "hacking" something. The next thing I would like to do is ...
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When in Fullscreen OSX Yosemite won't show the dock if "auto-hide-dock" is enabled.
While my dock "auto-hide" is enabled when, in full-screen app, if I put the pointer to the very bottom, the dock won't show up.
Unless, and this might be a bug, I move my mouse horizontally and it ...
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Is there a way to make the Menu bar show at all times in fullscreen windows?
I'm new to macOS and I really like the way you can assign a window to be it's own Desktop via full-screening. However, I have an issue with the default way the Menu bar works in full-screen.
I often ...
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Safari Presentation Mode command line
I created a HTML5 presentation that I would like to run fullscreen (no toolbars, just viewport). With a simple command line I can open the presentation in fullscreen on Chrome:
open "/Applications/...
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iTunes visualiser always fullscreen
Since upgrading to Yosemite this morning, the iTunes visualiser runs in fullscreen and I can't get it back to windowed mode. The general iTunes Fullscreen shortcut has no effect, nor does the green ...
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Fullscreen Flash video only shows 1/4 of video
When I maximize some Flash (version 15.0.0.xxx) videos to fullscreen, only the top left quarter of the screen is showing video, the rest is completely black.
I've tried this on OSX 10.9 and 10.10, ...
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OSX Yosemite full screen menu bar
Is there a way to always keep the menu bar visible in full screen mode?
When developing I like having certain applications take up the full screen but I find the delay in bringing down the menu bar ...
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Adjust delay for activating Full Screen Mode toolbar
Is it possible to change the delay on the full screen mode window toolbar in OS X Yosemite?
I'm thinking of something like this, but for the toolbar
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -...
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Cmd+` breaks with dual monitors and full screen mode
I want to run Chrome in full screen mode on both my monitors, using Cmd+` to alternate between windows. Cmd+` seems to work fine for alternating between windows when not in full screen mode, but it ...
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Treat fullscreen as desktop spaces in the matter of navigation
As the title says, I'd like to treat an app fullscreen as a desktop in the matter of navigation in Yosemite 10.10.
I’am working with 2 monitors + 3 apps in fullscreen mode and do a lot with the ...
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Yosemite repeatedly tells me to open system preferences to give control to RightZoom but it is checked in system preferences. Whats the matter?
Whenever I reboot Yosemite (MacBook Pro Early 2011 model), it keeps giving me a bunch of these messages. I have included an image of the , but then when it opens up System Preferences, RightZoom is ...
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How do you EXIT full screen mode in Yosemite?
I just discovered the new green button behavior in Yosemite that causes the window to go to full screen instead of maximizing it. That's fine, and I can live with option+click to get the old behavior,...
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How to always show window controls in Yosemite full screen apps?
The default behavior in Yosemite for apps with combined window title/toolbar in full screen mode is, that the window controls (signal lights) slide in from the left when the mouse the mouse pointer ...
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How to change the default behaviour of the fullscreen/maximize button?
There is a question that deals with the different behaviour of the fullscreen button in the window bar. There, it is shown that by doing:
⌥ + ⇧ + Click on green or outer right icon (plus icon)
I can ...
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How to keep apps open in full screen OS X 10.9
I have been trying to find a way to keep my windows opening in full screen mode. I have tried to open them in full screen and then close them without resizing the screen, but then when I restart my ...
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Open menù on fullscreen app
I'm using this arrangement for my notebook + 24inch monitor.
I primarily work on my notebook and the big screen is used just for secondary stuff.
The problem is that i cannot use full-screen ...
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How to disable dock and menubar in fullscreen games with RTS style mouse scrolling?
When playing games that use the newish Mac OS X fullscreen mode (i.e. the icon in the upper right hand corner of the window with two little diagonal arrows), moving the mouse cursor to the top or ...
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How do I make an app go full screen to the LEFT of my desktop?
I only have one desktop in spaces, and when I take an app full screen, it always goes to the right of my desktop... I know I can re-arrange by hand in mission control, but I'd like to be able to skip ...
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Can the Dock bar reserve it's horizontal space even if window is maximized?
I don't want to have the dock bar auto-hiding/showing, so I have it always enabled.
When I maximize a window, two things happen:
either it goes fullscreen so it hides the dock
or I make it bigger (...
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How to get full screen button in other applications on OS X?
I want the full screen button in image 2 to appear in the app shown in image 1 (Photoshop). In Chrome there's an option to go full screen, but in Photoshop and Office this does not exist. Is there any ...
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Some applications have grey menu bar
When running (for example) a java application (Minecraft) in it's own space (in Mavericks) the menu bar disappears, but then a grey bar appears on top of the space.
Is there anyway to fix this? It ...
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How can I keep notification center enabled, even when I'm in a full-screen app?
I'm running 10.9.4 on a MacBook Air, and when I enter composition mode in Scrivener (which is a full-screen mode) I find that the Mac Notification Center is completely disabled. Any alerts I receive ...
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Gap at the bottom of maximized windows
How can i get rid of the gap at the bottom of the screen when i maximized a window? The gap is almost imperceptible but at the bottom of a maximized window a few pixel are not filled, there one can ...
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Make the green full screen window icon on Yosemite maximize windows
On Mac OS X Yosemite the green icon in every window:
is by default used to make the application full screen.
How do I make it work the same way as in previous versions of Mac OS X, i.e. to maximize ...
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How to put a application in fullscreen using shell command in Mavericks?
I would like to ensure a application is running in fullscreen using a shell command (or script). I've seen some approaches that tell the application to execute a keyboard shortcut (cmd+ctrl+f) but ...
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Fullscreen Browser App without navbar
I'm looking for a fullscreen browser app for iPad with no navbar, so the user can only navigate on the same page but not go anywhere else. Does anybody know an app for this? Or is it possible to do ...
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Mavericks: Preview pane spontaneously reappears when switching spaces
Sometime my preview pane spontaneously reappears whenever I switch to another (non full-screen) Space, e.g., with CTRL + → . This behavior continues even after I close the preview pane. ...
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Full screen YouTube still shows Dock and Menu Bar
Whenever I bring a video to fullscreen on YouTube (on Chrome or Safari), the video will go to fullscreen but the dock and menu bar remain visible, covering the top and bottom parts of the video. They ...
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Why does Chrome starts fullscreen?
With Mac OS Mavericks and Chrome 35 : everytime I start my computer, the first time I launch Chrome, it starts in fullscreen mode. If I exit fullscreen, quit Chrome and then restart it, it's normal. ...
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Fullscreen app location in Mission Control
Is is possible to make the fullscreen applications be put right next to the desktop you are currently on, rather than to the right of all existing desktops in Mission Control?
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fullscreen youtube video on external display / avoid changing desktops
I'd like to entertain my 2 y.o. with cartoons while I' trying to work. The problem is that when I change desktops and use mission control it affects second display too.
How can I fix fullscreen ...
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How to switch Preview's full screen default setting from "two-pages" to "continuous scroll"?
Whenever I open a pdf, Preview.app opens it in "continuous scroll" mode. However, when going into fullscreen mode, it switches to "two-pages" when, really, I want it to use whatever view mode I had it,...
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How to disable Full Screen Animation on OS X 10.9
When an OSX window is promoted to be full screen there is a one second transition animation. How can this be disabled system wide? We would like the transition from small window to full screen to be ...
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Is there a way to cycle between full screen windows on OS X?
I have multiple Safari windows in fullscreen mode and I'd like to cycle through them using the keyboard (pretty much like command + ` works when windows are not fullscreen'd). I know I can control + ->...
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Switch between instances of apps in full screen?
I can use command tab to switch between apps, and command tilde to switch between windows of the same app (for example, a regular window and an incognito window of Chrome).
However, when I full ...
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How can I fix the Dual Monitor Fullscreen issue without updating to Maverick
Here's the problem:
When one app (for instance YoutTube or a game) goes fullscreen on monitor A, monitor B slides right, into a new gray "desktop" (like the ones one can add in the top right corner ...
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In Full-screen prevent Dock to unhide when mouse hits bottom
(using Mavericks 10.9.2 (latest))
Using an application in Full-screen (eg VirtualBox), is there a way not to have the Dock show when the mouse hits the bottom of the screen?
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Grey bar appearing over full screen apps on external monitor
This happens in VLC, iTerm, Chrome, maybe others where a grey-ish bar appears where the menu bar would normally be and if I mouse over it the menu bar appears. In Chrome this sometimes appears when I ...
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Is there a totally 'clean' full-screen mode web browser?
As the title describes, I'm looking for a totally clean full screen web browser with quick navigating options in Mac OS X.
To be specific, I don't want url bar, toolbar or anything else when in full ...
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How do I prevent applications from taking over my screen?
How can I prevent applications from being able to go fullscreen? Or, if this is not possible, how can I escape from fullscreen mode of a (possibly unresponsive) application, without quitting the ...
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Launch apps full screen
I quite like using full-screen apps on OSX Mavericks (Safari, iTunes, Mail, etc). I'd like all apps that are capable of running full-screen to launch in full-screen mode automatically, instead of me ...
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How to get rid of full screen video translucency?
I recently noticed that whenever I watch a video in full screen on the Mac, the video has a certain level of translucency showing the contents of the window or the desktop behind it.
This occurs with ...
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Getting notifications when in full-screen
Say I am running an application (e.g. Emacs) in full-screen. Sometimes I will receive a new email in Outlook or a message on HipChat and don't know it until I go back to see my dock or exit full-...
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Running Steam game in fullscreen doesn't allow second screen to show anything else (Mavericks)
In Mavericks, when I'm running a full screen game, the second screen can't show desktop (or browser, or anything else.) My understanding is that Mavericks sets the second screen in a different Space ...
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In Fullscreen, disable auto-hiding Mac menu bar
(on latest Mavericks)
While in VirtualBox (Ubuntu) fullscreen, on a Mac host, each time the mouse goes near the top, the Mac auto-hide menu bar appears - and I want to prevent that, or at least, since ...
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Mouse pointer becoming visible in fullscreen applications
There are some fullscreen applications which hide the default mouse pointer, such as movie players (MPlayerX, VLC), screen sharing client, some games, etc.
On my computer in many of these ...
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Force an App to Open Full Screen in a Specific Desktop Space
I'm running Mavericks OS X 10.9
As the title suggests I would like to force an app to open in full screen in a specific desktop space.
I can get an app to always open full screen, then position the ...
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