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From: burkhold@cs.ubc.ca (Mike Gobbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Menus (menues?)
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Date: 26 Sep 90 23:49:12 GMT
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Just a note to people out there like me who hate the
intrusive upper-left hand corner menu.  Here's how
to get rid of it so that any application's menu will
appear only when the right mouse button is depressed.
(It's a REAL good idea to enable the right mouse button
before doing this.)

At the shell or terminal prompt, just type:

dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX " 1160"

This will place the default location of all application
main menus off the right side of the screen.  WARNING:
it is possible that this will interfere with applications
that use this area of screen memory (I can't see how, but
I don't know enough about the screen memory to be sure
it's 100% safe- I've had no problems with it.).  To get
your menus back on screen, type

dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX " 0"

, or whatever X location you prefer.

Personally, I think that nifty little gadget in Preferences
that allows you to place your default menu location anywhere
on the screen would have been better replaced with a
simple on/off switch to toggle the EXISTENCE of the thing.
(Maybe system 2 provides this feature- Please, Next?)
I find that the upper-left menu covers enough screen to
be annoying when I'm trying (for example) to look at a
WriteNow document while editing Objective C code- ultimately,
I have to resize windows, and jiggle things around a bit so
that the menu doesn't cover any of it.  I find the
environment much more friendly now that the menu is
safely subject only to the mouse.

Hope somebody finds this useful.

p.s.  This is my first News posting, how'd I do? :->.
p.p.s  Thanks to Thor for helping me work this solution out.