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Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch

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Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch

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lopkeny12ko wrote: post #59

This is fine, but I (and many others) want the exact opposite. I'm so tired of the distracting notch, I just want the OS to render the desktop environment at a vertically cropped resolution so that the top of the rendered area ends at the bottom of the notch, effectively completely getting rid of it. The author self-promotes his app "Lunar" which apparently does this, but it's paid and closed-source. Anyone know of a…

There are also free utilities that make the menubar black so the notch doesn’t stand out so much. Have you tried that? At least then you don’t loose the top part of the screen.

Re: Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch

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librarian42 wrote: post #80
Tagbert wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It’s in the lower center of your visual space. You just don’t notice it because your visual system has accepted it as normal. Try closing one eye and looking toward your nose. It’s right there.
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