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Back in the earlier days of the Mac, OS X used to have a built-in feature that let you focus in on a single window while hiding all the others. For whatever reason, Apple decided to get rid of that. As a result, it’s also now difficult to hide all your open windows to protect against wandering eyes nearby.
Fortunately, a new Mac app called Hides restores these features. The app lets you use your Mac in “Single App Mode” as well as quickly hide all of your windows with a single click or keyboard shortcut. Hides is $4.99 in the Mac App Store but well worth it if you’re often in a busy environment but need to get some private browsing done.
Hide Your Entire Desktop
In nearly every single Mac application you use, you’ll find the Hide command. It’s a very useful thing to know about. You’ll find it under the application name in the Menu Bar.
If you want to hide your entire desktop with Hides, utilize the Preferences panel that opens upon first launching the application. You can decide whether you want to hide every running application or just use Single App Mode. For our purposes, make sure Single App Mode in the left sidebar is switched off.
- Jun 22, 2015 How to enable auto-hide for the menu bar. Step 1: Open System Preferences. Step 2: Click General. Step 3: Check the Automatically hide and show the menu bar option. The menu bar will immediately hide from view. To view the menu bar, simply drag your cursor up to the top of the screen and hold it there for a second.
- Nov 03, 2020 Hide My Bar is designed to help users in preventing accidental taps on the Touch Bar. This app can turn off the Touch Bar essentially turning it into a non-functional black bar above your keyboard. You can quickly disable MacBook Pro Touch Bar by double pressing the Control ^ Key.
While Hides sits in your menu bar for easy access, you might want to set a keyboard shortcut hide the windows even quicker. Select Hide All Apps in the Preferences to do this. Then click Record Shortcut and choose your key combination to set.
From there, either click Hides in the menu bar and choose Hide All Apps Video capture software mac. or just use your keyboard shortcut. All your windows will click vanish from the desktop.
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Hide Individual Applications
To hide individual applications on your Mac, you’ll want to head back into the Hides preferences, accessible via the menu bar option. This time, click the switch on the left that turns on Single App Mode.
Single App Mode essentially only lets you use one application at a time and it will automatically hide the rest. If you have Safari, Messages, Calendar and Mail open and Single App Mode is enabled, you’ll only be able to see one of the four that you choose. If you decide you only want to see Safari but then attempt to open Messages, the Messages window will open and Safari will automatically minimize.
This is a great tool if you need laser focus on a specific application and don’t want the distracting clutter behind it on your desktop. Hides lets you pick a keyboard shortcut to enable Single App Mode too, so take advantage of that if you want quick access.
If you need even more privacy on your computer, do check out our handy guide to not only hiding files and folders on your Mac, but password protecting them too.
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Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
For Dock hiding i have been using ASM for some time now, It has moor features that i dont use.
I am just using the dock hiding part of this for some app's you just have to add them to a list under Special Features and set dock hiding to ON
This is only for the dock hiding part
I am just using the dock hiding part of this for some app's you just have to add them to a list under Special Features and set dock hiding to ON
This is only for the dock hiding part
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
Be sure that it goes in alphabetical order, otherwise it won't work (i.e. LSUIPresentationMode goes after LSMinimumSystemVersion but before NSAppleScriptEnabled).
What?
Dictionary files do not have to be in order. They don't even preserve order. As long as you keep the key and value together (i.e. don't put the key at the top and the value at the bottom, or any other combination of non-adjacent positions), and don't mix them into any of the other keys or values or between the key and value of any other pair, it will work, regardless of whether you keep it sorted.
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
This is fantastic. I was actually working on a picture-frame and info station based on an aging G3 Powerbook. I needed an easy way to hide the menu-bar and here it is! (This also works on the Finder.)
Now if only there were an easy way to make this change system-wide instead of per-app..
Now if only there were an easy way to make this change system-wide instead of per-app..
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
Menushade. Get it here:
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Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
I remember looking at menushade a while back but didn't recall transparency being an option. I see that it now is, however, it still leaves the menu bar shadow visible, and the space is still unusable by anything but the menubar.
What I'd love is something like menushade, but allows you to use the space the menubar usually takes up (which this hint allows you to do).
What I'd love is something like menushade, but allows you to use the space the menubar usually takes up (which this hint allows you to do).
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
Menufela (ninjakitten.us) allows hiding the menu bar for all apps.
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
Doesn't quite work with Photoshop CS3. I launch Photoshop and the menubar and dock both disappear. But when Photoshop is fully loaded they both return. Any ideas?
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
https://renewprofiles549.weebly.com/increase-mac-volume-app.html. You are not alone. I tried this on multiple applications and it did not work as stated. How to add files to files app on mac shortcut. The dock and menu would be hidden while the application was loading, but then as soon as the application was loaded, both the menu and dock reappear. I give it 1 star for getting my hopes up and wasting my time.
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
Fantastic hint! This is something I've wanted to do with my favourite app, Google Earth, for some time, but I have not wanted to install APE. Full screen viewing goodness with just a couple of moments copy and paste. Well done, cheers.
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
We are going to appreciate this when we set up kiosks and public displays. Super hint!
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
there's also a free app called DockLess, which perfoms all those changes for you :).
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
.. which has never performed reliably for me, in all the years it's been out. Editing plists is a cinch, tho, with Property List Editor, whiich gets hauled out of the Developer Folder and put right in Utilities. It comes in handy sooo many ways.
Dockless does something completely different: It hides an app from appearing *inside* the Dock and it *removes* its menubar for good. In other words: Dockless turns a full app into an 'invisible' background process. I use a couple of apps that require such a treatment although the developers might have done it themselves in the first place, e.g. Hardware Growler or the PageSpinner helper app PageViewer.
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
I've tried applying this on finder, works like charm exept it's disabling spotlight… :/
Any idea ?
Any idea ?
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Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
How did you manage to do this with the finder? The hint works for firefox and mail for me but, I'd like to do this with preview and finder too.
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
This is an awesome hint, and very easy to implement, unlike some other cool hints that require a crazy amount of work.
However, one thing that should be mentioned, if you decide to do this with the Property List Editor (recommended), you need to change the Class for the LSUIPresentationMode entry you create to Number. By default it will come up as String, which will not work. Then for the Value field, put in 4.
However, one thing that should be mentioned, if you decide to do this with the Property List Editor (recommended), you need to change the Class for the LSUIPresentationMode entry you create to Number. By default it will come up as String, which will not work. Then for the Value field, put in 4.
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John Gruber of Daring Fireball posted a link to Megazoomer just today. Megazoomer is a freeware SIMBL plug-in which, when toggled with Command-Return, enables system-wide zooming of any window to full screen, hiding the Dock and Menu bar simultaneously. Pressing the hot key combo again will return the window to normal. Moving the cursor to the top of the screen will cause the Menu bar to appear, but the Dock will only return when the window is returned to normal. I downloaded and installed it, and it works beautifully. Caveat: it only works with Cocoa apps; Carbon apps such as Finder, iTunes, Photoshop etc, are out of luck.
Why the hell would you want to go full-screen in a document window, unless you're some sort of one-track minded PC user?
Mac windows don't maximize--they zoom to fit their contents. Where it makes sense to present an application full-screen, such as in QuickTime Player or the iTunes visualizer, that option is provided. Anywhere else, maximized windows are sacrilege.
Mac windows don't maximize--they zoom to fit their contents. Where it makes sense to present an application full-screen, such as in QuickTime Player or the iTunes visualizer, that option is provided. Anywhere else, maximized windows are sacrilege.
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This works less than perfectly for me.
You can hide the menu bar in the Finder, but Spotlight stops working.
When using BBEdit with the Finder's menu bar hidden, the Finder's menu bar becomes active when trying to use BBEdit's menu options.
In Firefox, the menus don't work, at least not the history—this was enough to make me remove the edit from Firefox's info.plist.
Did I do something wrong? Hasn't anyone else experienced this behavior?
You can hide the menu bar in the Finder, but Spotlight stops working.
When using BBEdit with the Finder's menu bar hidden, the Finder's menu bar becomes active when trying to use BBEdit's menu options.
In Firefox, the menus don't work, at least not the history—this was enough to make me remove the edit from Firefox's info.plist.
Did I do something wrong? Hasn't anyone else experienced this behavior?
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
I get the same behaviour in firefox, but if i want to use the history i can choose 'show in sidebar' and it works, i think it's a small price to pay, although i would like it to work properly.
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
I was really excited about this when I saw it on TUAW when reading my RSS feeds this morning, but I didn't read the title close enough. I really wanted this for Photoshop CS2, but when I applied the changes I noticed the menubar hide. Like I said, reading AND comprehending the article and title would have helpful for me. But I checked out the linked docs and decided to use a LSUIPresentationMode of 1, instead of 4, which appears to only hide the dock and do exactly what I want. Thanks for posting this!
Auto-hide the dock and menubar on a per-app basis
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I signed up just to say thanks. I've been needing this for so long - I use remote desktop in x11 (best windows client) and it's a 'mare always having things stuck under the menu.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
I signed up just to say thanks. I've been needing this for so long - I use remote desktop in x11 (best windows client) and it's a 'mare always having things stuck under the menu.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
How can I get this to work with Microsoft Word 2004? Does it only work with Cocoa apps?
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This still seems to me like an excellent hint if I were able to implement it properly however so far it has only succeeded in nearly giving me a stroke..
I am a newcomer to the 'mac' world and have only had my macPro (running leopard) a few weeks so it was perhaps slightly over zealous of me to dive into adding lines of code however I was careful to input the code as instructed above and made sure there were no errors..obviously I did something wrong though as I am now unable to boot my machine into Leopard and get instead an unresponsive blue screen of death. I do not even get as far as the log in screen.
I have tried using 'command' + 'S' at start-up. After running 'fsck -y' it tells me the 'HD is ok'.
I originally applied the additional lines of code outlined to the safari info.plist file.
Any and every bit of help would be tremendously appreciated. I am at a total (and panicked) loss..(I dont even care if it involves a fresh intall and loss of all existing data but the cd drawer wont even respond to allow me to insert the Leopard disk!)
I am a newcomer to the 'mac' world and have only had my macPro (running leopard) a few weeks so it was perhaps slightly over zealous of me to dive into adding lines of code however I was careful to input the code as instructed above and made sure there were no errors..obviously I did something wrong though as I am now unable to boot my machine into Leopard and get instead an unresponsive blue screen of death. I do not even get as far as the log in screen.
I have tried using 'command' + 'S' at start-up. After running 'fsck -y' it tells me the 'HD is ok'.
I originally applied the additional lines of code outlined to the safari info.plist file.
Any and every bit of help would be tremendously appreciated. I am at a total (and panicked) loss..(I dont even care if it involves a fresh intall and loss of all existing data but the cd drawer wont even respond to allow me to insert the Leopard disk!)