Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode
Date	2016-11-13 22:22 +0000
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JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-11-13 16:39, Alan Browne wrote:
> 
>> Push the cursor to the very top of the screen - not just over the grey area.
> 
> Grey area ? All 3 screens go BLACK.  I tried twice. First time, no menu
> mar appeared no matter where on top of any of the 3 screens the cursor
> was. But control-cmd F worked.

I suspect PEBKAC.

> in second attempt, i was able to get the menu bat to appear by having
> cursor on top of the Firefox window on screen 2 and the menu bar did
> appear on screen 2 (supposed to appear on screen 1).

It should appear on the screen that is displaying the app in question full
screen.

> I just do not understand the purpose of that full screen mode.

To fill the screen, obviously. Duh.

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Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 14:00 -0500
  Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-13 14:11 -0500
    Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 19:51 +0000
      Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 15:06 -0500
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 20:08 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-13 16:39 -0500
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:08 -0500
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:13 -0500
              Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 22:21 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 17:45 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 23:44 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-13 23:32 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 05:22 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:29 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 17:31 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-14 18:36 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:08 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-15 05:24 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 08:36 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 23:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-15 19:14 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-16 01:05 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 20:47 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-16 13:45 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-16 18:53 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-17 16:36 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 09:43 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-19 19:50 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 15:22 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-19 21:31 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-19 21:59 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-19 21:56 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-19 18:32 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-17 01:07 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-17 08:16 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-17 15:19 -0500
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-18 03:20 +0000
                Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-15 08:36 -0500
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 22:22 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-11-13 19:37 -0600
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 01:59 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:26 +0000
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2016-11-14 09:09 +0100
      Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-14 07:25 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-14 17:06 +0000
        Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2016-11-14 12:46 -0600
          Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-15 05:06 +0000
            Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-11-15 19:46 +1300
  Re: Exiting the dreaded "full screen" mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-13 19:49 +0000

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