Mac full screen toolbar behavior

I’m frequently using Scrivener in full screen mode on Lion these days (and will do so more when I can finally afford a new MB Air 11"), and really like the options to hide the inspector and binder automatically. However the full screen mode has a few irritations I was hoping might be possible to address.

First, when I rapidly move the mouse cursor toward the header bar, or the top of either the binder or the inspector, I frequently trigger the toolbar to slide down and obscure where I was trying to go. The Doc, on the other hand, does not just pop up when I get too close to the bottom of the screen. instead, it takes moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen, and then another stroke down on my track pad to get it to pop up. I would prefer if the toolbar & menu worked that way too, at least as an option. Is this possible, or is it entirely up to Apple?

Second, I’d like to have only the Binder, or only the Inspector set to auto-hide in full screen. Could their auto-hide settings be separated into two check boxes?

The Dock and toolbar behaviour is entirely determined by Apple code, I’m afraid.

The binder and inspector could be set to have different checkboxes, but that seems to be adding to the number of checkboxes for not much gain - you can always leave this checkbox off and just hit cmd-opt-B or cmd-opt-I to hide whichever one you want to hide…

Thanks and all the best,
Keith

Oh well. I’ll just have to learn more keyboard shortcuts or get more accurate with my track pad.

slaps forehead Oh… didn’t even occur to me that hiding one or the other would result in the same behavior that I want (the hidden one sliding out when I mouse over to the edge of the screen). And… these settings also seem to be recorded in the Layouts function. Brilliant!

Thanks for pointing that out. :slight_smile: