Fullscreen Mode - can we make the menu bar disappear completely

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More a would-be-nice feature request than anything else.

Would be great to toggle on/off the top menu-bar in fullscreen mode, the same 
way Tools menu can be.

The one thing that every Liquid Galaxy rig has (up till now) is a grey streak 
along the top of all the monitors... which just doesn't look very good.

We probably want it so if the mouse/pointer is moved up to the top of the 
screen the menu reappears, as well as a key combination and right-click menu 
option.

With X11/Linux there is a workaround using a window placement app like 
Devilspie to force the menu-bar to be off the screen.

Cheers, Andrew.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alfski on 13 Jan 2011 at 8:54

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This should be an easy one to do?

Original comment by alfski on 1 Jul 2011 at 4:57

• Added labels: Priority-High, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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Suggested UI implementation:

In GE create a user prefs/setting "[x] Fullscreen auto-hides menu".
If this is checked the Menu Bar (in Fullscreen mode) silently disappears off 
the top of the screen after a few seconds.  
To bring it back the user moves the mouse cursor to the top of the screen.
Similar to how the Windows hide task-bar function.

This is important to Liquid Galaxy's in public/museum settings where we want 
the most aesthetic view possible with Google Earth.

Original comment by alfski on 3 Jul 2011 at 4:06

• Changed title: Fullscreen Mode - can we make the menu bar disappear completely

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Example of what a Windows based LG looks like.

Original comment by alfski on 14 Jul 2011 at 8:04

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• LG-MenuBar.jpg

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I was wondering if you could describe which files are to be modified to fix 
this issue as I am unable to find any relevant files to edit.

I am new to Liquid Galaxy, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Abhishek Kandoi

Original comment by abhikand...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 11:38