Use Applications Full Screen in OS X Leopard (Hide the menubar)

by Nicolas Noben

The problem

Well, before Leopard I used this app called Menufela. It was good, but it died with Leopard and that’s that.

Since then it’s been frustrating. I like to program fullscreen, with textmate, coda, flex builder etc. So anything that takes screen real estate has to go. I love the approach of Writeroom for writers and Developers need a solution like this.

The Solution

Googling I ended up found this trick on MacOsxHints. It seems to work but it’s quite hard to implement.

Eventually, this donationware (free) application called Present Your Apps allows you to do just that, very easily.

The only down side is that it will ask you for a password and restart your application.

Please note: DO NOT USE the app MENUFELA (see ‘problem’, mentioned at the top of this post). I tried it again, it did say ‘does not play nice with leopard’, but it turned out to be a lot worse than expected.

Indeed, my computer wouldn’t boot anymore and I had to do a hell of a lot to get it back to normal.

2 Responses

Meeech Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 6:38 am

Adium users watch out - now every time I launch adium, i get prompted for my passwords. Telling adium to save them doesnt work anymore. This was after i used present your apps on it.
Nicolas Noben Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 9:42 am

Huh, thanks!