This “every single pixel” stuff reminds me of how many people will work at a tube of toothpaste for a minute just to squeeze out one more drop. It’s not really about getting more toothpaste, because you could easily just buy more. It’s also not really about getting the most toothpaste for your money, because you’re likely not also focusing on cheap tubes, bulk buys, etc. It’s certainly not about getting the most toothpaste for your time. It’s loss aversion: because you believe you <i>should</i> have this thing, you’re willing to accept a much higher cost to obtain it. Similarly, people doing this “every single pixel” thing aren’t necessarily also getting the biggest screens or the thinnest bezels, it’s about it feeling “wrong” to not use these particular pixels.<p>The problem goes away if you mentally reframe: you don’t have a 16.1″ screen with a piece missing, you have a 15.6″-ish screen, the same size as before the notch, and also a horizontal strip above it that’s only good for sensors, the menu bar, and extended backgrounds.
Just 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.<p>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.<p>Still, this is a nice workaround!
The "Automatically hide and show the menubar" setting should really default to "Never" for notched displays, since it doesn't actually gain you any extra real-estate and just slows you down with a pointless animation.<p>I finally turned it off because on my (non-notched) external display it was too easy to accidentally activate, which would disable the thing in the toolbar that I actually intended to click on (and then I'd have to sit there and wait a second for it to re-hide before very carefully mousing to almost-but-not-quite the top of the screen to click my intended target).<p>It's in the Desktop & Dock section.
Unrelated. But anyone knows if there is a way to pin the dock to a single display?<p>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 at the display will move the Dock.
I've been looking on and off for a way to do this for years.<p>Surprised more people aren't bothered by not being able to use the space next to the notch... it's not even consistent with the iPhone which does allow rendering apps around the notch.
I've actually been debating getting a 14 MBP M1 for about $1500 on open box stores etc (woot), or on sale or what not but cannot justify spending 1.5k on a laptop lol.<p>I have a desktop and a Thinkpad T430 if I need to go somewhere. Also have a tablet and such. I definitely do need a "better" laptop but my justification is that I'm not outside the house often enough for me to buy the MBP.<p>Which, realistically, is true. I'm not.<p>On the other hand, shiny fast device lol.
My 16" MBP would be a perfect device if they could either put the webcam/sensor array behind the glass or just get rid of it. If I want to FaceTime I can use an iPad or iPhone as a peripheral attachment. At this point, virtually perfect hardware is being ruined by a notch. :( It's a reminder every time that there are still design limitations to overcome and engineering feats to be achieved for the next 1,000 years. 8D
Vivaldi Browser on macos uses some non-standard window that can be dragged above the notch and dragged to 'full screen' manually.<p>I appreciate the free extra screen real estate actually quite a lot and always use it sized to the max.
I want to use full-screen on apps in Mac OS, but the insanely long and slow transitions when switching between them makes it unusable. A few years ago you could remove those transitions with a few commands, but no more.<p>And it makes no sense, since the application is taking inputs while the transition is running. You're just stuck looking at the old app fading away while the new one fades in, also flashing you with a bright white screen in the process. Ughh!
I find the notch distracting and have found this app helpful to "hide" it.<p><a href="https://topnotch.app/" rel="nofollow">https://topnotch.app/</a>
Trying this out because this has annoyed me in certain apps. Mostly fullscreen games.<p>Another wrinkle the author does not mention: If the application in question is x86_64, you will need the x86_64 version of frida running through Rosetta.
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.
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.<p>The author self-promotes his app "Lunar" which apparently does this, but it's paid and closed-source. Anyone know of a FOSS alternative?
I tried to play Slay The Spire in fullscreen on my M1 but the top on the UI is hidden under the black bar that Apple added to hide the notch. Can't see the potions and golds.