I just use top notch to turn the menu bar fully black. The notch only bothers me because of how ugly it looks, I don't care about using those extra pixels for fullscreen apps.
Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
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Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They didn’t say screen real estate doesn’t matter at all, only that the specific space under discussion isn’t a concern to them "More space matters, but not if it's 100px at the top of the screen" If you are a believer that additional screen space provides some marginal value, as the majority of people do, then you cannot at all argue that there's nothing lost by losing screen space. If you believe that you only ne…
I have a comically large 43” monitor sitting on my desk, so maybe you’re not engaging the things people are saying in good faith.
There is no faith. Either screen real estate matters or it doesn’t. If you have a 43” monitor and think its useful, then you must agree that having 100 extra pixels on a 16” screen is also useful.
You absolutely cannot argue in good faith otherwise. Its a provable mathematical fact that the beliefs are incongruent.
You are free to choose to hold logically inconsistent beliefs though. You do you
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I basically never do full screen, so for that reason I'm not bothered. (In fact, now I'm _less_ bothered, since I somehow no longer feel like the menu bar is "wasting" space.)
I never use the "fullscreen" mode either, and don't understand the point of it. But you don't ever have a window that spans the full vertical space of the screen? You can hide the menu bar and have it only appear on mouseover, thus not wasting space. Except on non-notch Macs you can place windows where the menu bar used to be, and on notched Macs you can't
That's a fair point -- for whatever reason, I could never get into auto-hide for the menu bar (tho I do use it for the dock). I think maybe because I tend to trigger showing it accidentally too much (vs the dock on bottom where it's not an issue because usually there isn't other actionable stuff down there)?
But definitely, if you like menu-bar autohide where you're coming from makes sense.
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#74Just got an M2 MBA and it's such a fantastic upgrade from my old intel MBP, but the notch is a bit more distracting than I'd like. It's awkwardly large, and the corner rounding is a lot worse than the notched iPhones imo. Its saving grace is that the screen is 16:10, and all pixels where the notch lives are bonus pixels, so it's still a net win in usable screen space vs 16:9 laptops. Still, this is a nice workaround!
If you're anything like almost everyone else I've ever met, then as long as you just tolerate it being a minor annoyance for a few weeks you'll completely forget the notch exists. Except for once a month or so when you suddenly notice it and it creates an unpleasant unscratchable itch in your brain for a minute, like when you're suddenly aware of your own breathing or how much space your tongue takes up in your mouth…
Or when you notice that your nose occupies a large space in the middle of your vision. You’ve gotten used to it so that you don’t notice your nose unless you close one eye and really look for your nose. Then it’s there blocking your vision in that area. The notch is very similar. It can be distracting initially but if you stop focusing on it and get on with your work, you quickly find that you almost never notice it.
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#75Unrelated. But anyone knows if there is a way to pin the dock to a single display? it is kind of annoying when you have multiple displays, how the dock moves almost randomly between then when you move your mouse close to the bottom of a display. If at least it was not random, but no, sometimes you can hover your mouse pointer for hours in the bottom of a screen and the dock won't move there, other times, just looking…
In display preferences there is a dock panel that you can drag to the side or bottom of any screen. I’ve never noticed it moving on its own. There have been times when it defaulted to displaying on an external monitor but I was able to move it back to the laptop screen and then it stayed there.
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
you really don't notice it after a few days
laptop stockholm syndrome? :)
I think it's probably closer to the thing where everyone has blind spots in their field of view where the eye has blood vessels but you just don't ever notice it because your brain fills in the details.
Not to say that I can't see it, it just doesn't affect the way I interact with the machine.
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#77Can hammerspoon be used to accomplish this same effect?
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#78Can hammerspoon be used to accomplish this same effect?
No. You need to run code in the context of the process you want to full-screen, Hammerspoon can't do that. HS can only use the Accessibility API to modify some attributes of the windows.
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
you really don't notice it after a few days
laptop stockholm syndrome? :)
It’s just how the human visual system works. How do you feel about the large amount of your visual space is blocked by your nose. Close one eye and look at your nose. It’s surprising how much is blocks but you are essentially blind to it.
Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're anything like almost everyone else I've ever met, then as long as you just tolerate it being a minor annoyance for a few weeks you'll completely forget the notch exists. Except for once a month or so when you suddenly notice it and it creates an unpleasant unscratchable itch in your brain for a minute, like when you're suddenly aware of your own breathing or how much space your tongue takes up in your mouth…
Or when you notice that your nose occupies a large space in the middle of your vision. You’ve gotten used to it so that you don’t notice your nose unless you close one eye and really look for your nose. Then it’s there blocking your vision in that area. The notch is very similar. It can be distracting initially but if you stop focusing on it and get on with your work, you quickly find that you almost never notice it.
Do you have a nose like an anteater or are you actually a cyclops? I don't think typical human's noses occupy a large space in the center of their vision.