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Since upgrading to El Capitan, I've found that when using the old Fullscreen mode ('Use the Native Fullscreen Mode' unchecked), the menu bar isn't hidden when the vlc window is in fullscreen mode. Yosemite and earlier this always hid the menubar without issue.

I've tried with 2.2.1 and the latest nightly build.

If I use native fullscreen mode it doesn't display the menu bar, but then VLC doesn't use the fullscreen video device I've selected (my 60" HDTV) unless I move the VLC window to that screen before turning fullscreen mode on.

I tried turning menubar hiding on, but didn't like that.

So if you could either fix VC to hide the menubar when in the non-native fullscreen mode or fix it so that when going to fullscreen in native FS mode it'll always go fullscreen on the video device I've set in VLC prefs I'd be very happy.

Thanks.

Please give detailed info on your monitors setup. Which, how much, how arranged, what is the main monitor etc.

I think it's mostly a bug in El Capitan bug that's keeping the menu bar from being hidden when in the old full screen view. I've had a couple full screen flash videos do the same thing.

That said, if you could get the native full screen mode in VPC to only use a particular screen like the non-native full screen mode can be set in VLC to do, I'd appreciate it.

Main screen is a Dell 30" running at 2560x1600
The screen I want the full screen to always display on was a Sony TV running 720P. But I just replaced it with a 65" Vizio 4k TV running at 2160P.