wide screen menu bar position

I have a very wide screen (120cm).

The menus in the menubar therefore sit too far at the left to be comfortable.

Is there any way to move the menus away from the extreme left?

There is a utility called "SecondBar", which shows a copy of the menus and can be dragged to any position. I put it in middle of the top of the screen, and that is fine.

But this utility is no longer supported and will not work if I move to the next OS version (I'm on Big Sur now).

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 8, 2023 01:31 AM

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RobertCailliau Author

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Posted on Jan 8, 2023 07:26 AM

Hi Kaz-k,

It's what I feared.

I'll follow your suggestion & feed it back to Apple directly.

Of course, using Applescript, I could make an app that gets the menus of the currently active application and shows them, and could even resurrect the very nice way it was done in NeXTStep.

However, Apple should really do it. For some productive work, an extra-wide screen is very useful, and the menubar is also much better than having menus on every window.

Thanks,

Robert.

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RobertCailliau Author

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Jan 8, 2023 07:26 AM in response to kaz-k

Hi Kaz-k,

It's what I feared.

I'll follow your suggestion & feed it back to Apple directly.

Of course, using Applescript, I could make an app that gets the menus of the currently active application and shows them, and could even resurrect the very nice way it was done in NeXTStep.

However, Apple should really do it. For some productive work, an extra-wide screen is very useful, and the menubar is also much better than having menus on every window.

Thanks,

Robert.

kaz-k

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Jan 8, 2023 02:40 AM in response to RobertCailliau

Hi,

As far as I know, there is no way or utilities to move menu position, though you should feedback it to Apple directly.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Jan 8, 2023 09:34 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Grant:

I know, but it is irrelevant; I want the set of menus in a place I decide, not top-left corner of anything fixed.

SecondBar does it, but will not work in future.

Jan 8, 2023 07:45 AM in response to RobertCailliau

what make&model display?

some large displays can show the screen as two half-screens using two cables and Picture-by Picture inside the display, and Mac arrangement to put them side-by side again.

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