Question: How to set a Floating Menu's position to be located where the macOS menu bar is located?

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I'm trying to figure out how to replace SketchyBar with a BTT Floating Menu. However, I can't figure out how to configure the BTT Floating Menu to be located where the macOS menu bar is located. All of the configurations I've tried always set the Floating Menu's y-axis location below my Mac's Notch. Am I missing something or is what I'm trying to achieve not possible?

Thanks!

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Solved, I found the setting:

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ah yes, maybe I should show a warning when selecting the menubar based positioning that to overlay the menubar a higher z-index is required

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Is it possible to do the same with some apps in macOS using BTT

Something like this Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch — Alin Panaitiu

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I don’t understand the question :sweat_smile:
If this is about changing the level of another app‘s window - this is not possible with system integrity protection enabled ;-(

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When i use the floating menu, there’s this option to let it take over the topbar space (see the screenshot). so, if that’s possible with a floating menu, shouldn’t it be possible with an app window too?

Like... we have the “pin on top” option—any app, any window, using btt...i use it when i want an app to always stay on top, no matter what else i open.

Is there a way to set that “window level” for apps as well?

The link i shared was just to show you the vibe of what i meant—not for literal instructions.

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unfortunately this is not possible (apps like yabai can do it but only when disabling system integrity protection)

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If the pin function could be adjusted so that pinned windows could also be hidden, then the entire app (all windows of this app) could be pinned when it is not hidden, but the windows would not be visible when the app is hidden.

Unfortunately, pinned windows cannot be hidden at the moment. Andreas, if I remember correctly, you wanted to check whether this is possible :slightly_smiling_face:

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@fortred2 I would need your help to understand it a bit. The developer was doing something with the certificates. I'm not sure, i understand. It must be something related to the development cycle...

He was able to make apps go full screen, take the notch area as well, without meddling with SIP.

Can you please have a look? Maybe we can automate this... for certain apps.
Especially fir VMs, video playback... so it would be so cool.

Please pardon me if I am not making sense... I'm new to this.