I need to hide the menu because I am easily distracted. That’s the main reason why I use Sublime- because it’s minimalistic. I can’t use fullscreen mode because it significantly interferes with my workflow.
There is no general preference in OSX that allows you to hide the menu bar in apps. But hiding it is important to me because I work much better and feel more relaxed when I don’t have things on my screen that I don’t want.
There is one method of hiding the menu bar with OSX apps without fullscreening: mySIMBL. This injects a menu bar item into all app’s “window” menu giving an option to hide the menu bar. I thought discovering this was my lucky day until I discovered that Sublime is one of the few apps that mySIMBL doesn’t work with.
Now since my menu bar is hidden in all other apps except Sublime, every time I activate sublime the menu bar pops up and then hides again when I activate the other app. This flashing of my menu bar is way more distracting, so now I’m forced to either go into fullscreen mode or not use mySIMBL at all in any of my apps. Both of which are very far-from-ideal options.
I don’t know what Sublime did to protect itself from mySIMBL. But thats fine, it just needs to offer its own way to hide the menu bar as an alternative. If anyone knows any details about this issue please let me know. I’m open to any hack, I’m just trying to make myself a clean and functional workspace, and Sublime is really getting in the way of everything. Thanks.
