Top bar on second display hides other menus

[Per Kjeldaas]

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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[Per Kjeldaas (kjeldaas)]

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?

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

On recent ubuntu releases the panel should be below a fullscreen window no matters what.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Please check if you can still reproduce this problem on a supported ubuntu release.

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