I'm on an 11.5" Macbook Air, so screen real estate is important to me. I currently have the menu bar set to auto-hide, but I want to be able to show the menu bar with a keyboard shortcut. Any ideas out there to do this without hacking something together?
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System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Keyboard
Move focus to the Menu Bar [default Ctrl ⌃ F2 ]
If you wish, you can then navigate the menu with the arrow keys - but it will pop the menu bar into view; Esc to close it without further interaction.
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Then add the Fn key… so you're actually pressing F2 not a media key.– TetsujinCommented Apr 23 at 6:16
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Pressing F2 with fn, with control, and with both fn and control does nothing for me.– 2540625Commented Apr 23 at 15:28
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Have you checked the key combo is active in settings? Let's assume, as it works for everyone else, it's something you have set differently.– TetsujinCommented Apr 23 at 18:28
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I recommend Shift+Command+/. It's the keyboard shortcut for a menu bar search. So it reveals the menu bar like Ctrl⌃+F2 does, with the added benefit of putting your cursor in the search field so you can quickly type the command you want and hit enter.
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This does not work for me anymore (MacOS Ventura) since Cmd + ? is now the Help-window and ? is exactly Shift+/. See my question apple.stackexchange.com/questions/457469/…– johk95Commented Mar 21, 2023 at 16:54
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If the standard
Ctrl⌃ + F2
does not work try
Ctrl⌃ + F2 + FN
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I could not figure out how to get the buttons to display right. Can anyone fill me in?– ChadCommented Jul 19, 2019 at 23:14
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Just place the
kbd-tags around every single key (I used five pairs of tags to edit your post). You can just click theedit-button to see how it's done.– PidaCommented Oct 18, 2019 at 9:37
For me, MacOS had it set up with this shortcut
⌃ Control+⇧ Shift+ F2
