November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 16 | Switch to Black Menus in Full-Screen Mode |
Here’s a small secret tweak that will make the menu bar at the top of the screen turn black whenever you enter full-screen mode with any application. It brings no new functionality other than altering the appearance of the menu.
Open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type the following:
| | defaults write -g NSFullScreenDarkMenu -bool TRUE |
Then log out and back in again. Switch any compatible app to full-screen mode (click the arrow at the top right of the window or click View→Enter Full Screen), and then push the mouse against the top of the screen to see the now-blackened menu ...
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