burkhold@cs.ubc.ca (Mike Gobbi) (09/27/90)
Just a note to people out there like me who hate the intrusive upper-left hand corner menu. Here's how to get rid of it so that any application's menu will appear only when the right mouse button is depressed. (It's a REAL good idea to enable the right mouse button before doing this.) At the shell or terminal prompt, just type: dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX " 1160" This will place the default location of all application main menus off the right side of the screen. WARNING: it is possible that this will interfere with applications that use this area of screen memory (I can't see how, but I don't know enough about the screen memory to be sure it's 100% safe- I've had no problems with it.). To get your menus back on screen, type dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX " 0" , or whatever X location you prefer. Personally, I think that nifty little gadget in Preferences that allows you to place your default menu location anywhere on the screen would have been better replaced with a simple on/off switch to toggle the EXISTENCE of the thing. (Maybe system 2 provides this feature- Please, Next?) I find that the upper-left menu covers enough screen to be annoying when I'm trying (for example) to look at a WriteNow document while editing Objective C code- ultimately, I have to resize windows, and jiggle things around a bit so that the menu doesn't cover any of it. I find the environment much more friendly now that the menu is safely subject only to the mouse. Hope somebody finds this useful. p.s. This is my first News posting, how'd I do? :->. p.p.s Thanks to Thor for helping me work this solution out.
hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess) (09/27/90)
In article <9755@ubc-cs.UUCP> burkhold@cs.ubc.ca (Mike Gobbi) writes: >At the shell or terminal prompt, just type: > >dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX " 1160" You can also use negative values to place the menu off the left side: dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX " -110" leaves just enough showing so that you can pull it back; -150 will move it clear out of sight. Or, you can move the menu off the bottom so that only the title bar shows by using NXMenuX 0 and NXMenuY 10.
markad@blake.u.washington.edu (Mark Donnell) (09/28/90)
OR, better (IMHO) is to place the menus in the extreme bottom,
{left/right} corner of the screen such that only the App name shows.
Then you can see what App is currently selected by looking down, but
The menu doesn't interfere with view of windows. Also, if you put it
in the bottom right corner, it overlaps the bottom icon in the dock,
putting it in space which is unusable anyway. This can be donw thru
Preferences or with dwrite.
Markedwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) (10/01/90)
I set it up so that only the title part of the menu shows up along the bottom of the screen where the Black Hole is parked. It is low enough that you can still tell what icons are sitting along the bottom row, it is uninstrusive, and it still gives you the feedback of which app is active. -- Edward Jung Microsoft Corp. My opinions do not reflect any policy of my employer.