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[Per Kjeldaas <1201297@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today I upgraded to 13.10, hoping that this problem would be solved.
Unfortunately, I still have no way to avoid the top black bar on my
second monitor.  That once I am using for Windows as a guest under
VmWare.  In order to click on a Windows menu, I first have to click on
the VMWare tool, which is  very inconvenient.  Why is it so had to give
us the choice to remove this black bar on the second screen?

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Title:
  Top bar on second display hides other menus

Status in Unity:
  New
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I just install the desktop Ubuntu 12.04-LTS yesterday, hoping to get of a problem that has prevented a number of operations.  Here is my setup:
  Ubuntu 12.04-LTS, latest as of yesterday.
  VMWare Player version VMware-Player-5.0.2-1031769.x86_64.bundle
  As a guest in Player: Windows 7.
  Ubuntu in primary monitor, full-screen VMWare with Windows in secondary monitor.

  Problem: There is a black bar at the top that has no use, but blocks
  the top of my Windows screen that covers up and shadows the essential
  (typically menu) information at the top.  For a number of Windows
  applications, having access to the top is absolutely essential, so
  this a show stopper for me.  I had the same problem in Ubuntu 13.04,
  so I was hoping that 12.04-LTS would solve the problem, but no, it
  does not.

  My work around is to shut down the Windows guest, reboot he computer
  and use Windows as the main OS, and Ubuntu as a guest, but that is not
  what I hoped I could do with Ubuntu.

  Please make it a choice whether the second monitor has that bar.  If a
  window in the second monitor has focus, the associated menu items can
  still be shown in the first monitor, so there would be no
  functionality lost.

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