Would it be possible to add to toggle to hide the title bar of the application? [macOS]

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Hello dear ankitects,

I am not talking about the touch bar, nor the menu bar. The screenshot below shows the title bar.

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Reasoning : on OSX, I am a fond user of the Stickies app (the one that enables “posts-its” on screen) because I can pin it on top of other windows and scribble notes about the currently reviewed card. See image below.

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Unfortunately, enabling fullscreen does not allow for stickies notes to overlap anki window because of the way OSX works. Instead, I suggest you add a setting to disable this very title bar. On top of that, I do like the tidiness of fullscreen mode alike as it hides title and menu bars.

Menu bar is not an issue for me since I can disable it in my mac’s settings app.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day.

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Are you actually entering true “fullscreen” mode, or are you instead just “maximizing” the window? If you enter true fullscreen mode, are you able to accomplish what you want do?

When I enter fullscreen by…

  • Clicking on the green button in the upper-left corner of the Anki window; or
  • View > Enter Full Screen

… the title bar does not appear. Instead, the Anki window is entirely fullscreen, with no OS UI elements appearing. (And, because I set my macOS settings to hide the Menu Bar and Dock, the only thing I see is the Anki window.)

However, if I instead maximize the window by…

  • Dragging the title bar to the top of the screen; or
  • Hover over green button > Fill & Arrange > (maximize icon)

… the window appears at the maximum size, filling the entire screen, but with the title bar showing.

I am using Anki 26.05b1 on macOS Tahoe 26.5.

3

OP is probably saying that the text editor they’re using doesn’t show when Anki is in full screen, so they want the title bar to disappear to use the maximized window as a workaround.

OP, you can try this addon which I haven’t tested:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2073533957

Alternatively, you can add a <textarea> to your templates as in Add support for typing multiple lines in answers - #4 by eroscard.

4

Sorry. I now see that I misunderstood the issue.

I confirm that in fullscreen mode, Stickies cannot be used. (macOS seems to consider the fullscreened-window to be its own separate desktop/space that the app occupies exclusively. If you try to drag a Stickie window into the fullscreen desktop/space, a circle-with-diagonal-slash prohibited icon is shown and the action does not succeed.)