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Can I Hide the Taskbar on My Mac During a Presentation?
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Discussion Overview
The discussion revolves around how to hide the taskbar on a Mac during presentations, specifically when using applications like Open Office, Keynote, or PowerPoint. Participants express concerns about display settings and how they affect the presentation output on external projectors.
Discussion Character
- Technical explanation, Debate/contested, Experimental/applied
Main Points Raised
- One participant asks how to hide the taskbar during a presentation on a Mac.
- Another participant inquires whether the issue pertains to Keynote or PowerPoint.
- A different participant mentions using Open Office and expresses concerns about the correct display dimensions when projecting to a beamer, noting issues with cropping and resizing.
- One participant identifies that enabling full screen mode in X11 resolves the taskbar visibility issue, but notes that this mode requires specific key commands to access hidden applications.
Areas of Agreement / Disagreement
Participants have not reached a consensus on the best method to hide the taskbar or the optimal display settings for presentations. Multiple competing views and concerns remain regarding application compatibility and display issues.
Contextual Notes
Participants mention specific application behaviors and display settings, but there are unresolved details regarding the impact of different resolutions and projector settings on presentation quality.
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with keynote or powerpoint?
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open office
and I'm also worried that open office won't be transmitted to the beamer in the correct dimensions. As you see I've got a widescreen laptop, with 1440x960 I get the black vertical bars and beamer will resize so that the bars disappear, leaving the top and the bottom of the slide cropped (at least, that's what I notice with other people's presentations), when they resize their display the beamer will project correctly. The problem is when I resize my display to 1280x800 the way the presentation is displayed is weird (not sure how the beamer would deal with that).
and I'm also worried that open office won't be transmitted to the beamer in the correct dimensions. As you see I've got a widescreen laptop, with 1440x960 I get the black vertical bars and beamer will resize so that the bars disappear, leaving the top and the bottom of the slide cropped (at least, that's what I notice with other people's presentations), when they resize their display the beamer will project correctly. The problem is when I resize my display to 1280x800 the way the presentation is displayed is weird (not sure how the beamer would deal with that).
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Ah well, I found the culprit. It's X11, when I change the preferences to 'enable full screen mode' the taskbar disappears.. working with the mode is weird since I need to press alt-apple-a to make the application appear, which is otherwise hidden in that mode (it took me a while to find out which keys stand for command-option-a 
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