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The menubar remains visible even in fullscreen mode on a secondary display

Asked by Adrien BAK

When running Ubuntu with Unity as the desktop environment, when pipelight is running on the secondary window, the menubar remains visible, even when fullscreen mode is enabled.

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Adrien BAK (adrien-bak) said : 		#1

Apparently, this behaviour comes from a modification in Compiz (my desktoip environment being Unity), wich now disallows applications on the secondary screen to go full screen.

To enable "true" fullscreen support on a secondary display, one can use the compiz configuration manager :

    sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

and enable the option in Utility -> Workaround -> Legacy Fullscreen Support

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#2

I converted this into a FAQ
FAQ #2467: “The menubar remains visible on a secondary display in fullscreen mode”.