M3 Pro how to hide notch in menu bar and use full screen height?

[schlomo]

Hi,

running on MBP M3 Pro 14" and I would like to visually hide the notch in the menu bar and use the full screen height.

Currently I seem to have two options, that can be activated via resolution change or via the "Display Notch" menu option:

1. Use 1512x945 (HiDPI) resolution and then the notch is hidden within the menu bar, but at the bottom of the screen there is a bit of unusable black space
2. Use 1512x982 (HiDPI) resolution and then the notch is larger than the menu bar and the entire height of the screen is usable. In this mode the menu bar seems to leave the "cutout" in the menus at the wrong place

Look at this annotated photo comparison, left is 945 lines and right is 982 lines:

And please also look at this short video comparing the two resolutions and the changes:
https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/assets/101384/d97ff58f-2ef5-4027-95b9-fef88808219e

What I would like to have is the notch-hiding of the 945 lines mode but with using the full vertical available space of the 982 lines mode (without the dead zone at the bottom of the screen), and with the notch gap in the menus at the correct place, and with the menu bar height to match the notch size.

Any idea how to get this? Do I have a buggy configuration or is everybody faced with this unhappy choice?

I'm using BetterDisplay Pro Version 2.3.3 Build 29731

Any help is very much appreciated!

Kind regards,
Schlomo

[waydabber]

Normally the notchess resolution is 16:10 which is the traditional MacBook resolution. This is intentional.

If you want a notchless resolution that fully utilizes all the space below the notch, you need to create a custom resolution, like this (this is for the 16" MBP, for the 14" it will be different):

Then you need to reboot so it takes effect, then choose the custom resolution. First, you need to select the new weird aspect ratio (15.9:10 for the 16" MBP) and apply the filter:

[schlomo]

Ah, cool! Can you suggest the custom resolution to use for 14" as well?

Maybe this could be something worth a configuration option, e.g. "Add custom resolutions to maximize screen usage in notchless mode"?

[waydabber]

I am not sure about the right value for the 14" as I don't have one with me right now, but just set the screen to the default pixel perfect HiDPI resolution and measure the pixel distance between the bottom of the screen and the notch using a Shift+Option+4 rectangle and use that for the vertical resolution. The horizontal resolution should be unchanged. Best to use an even vertical number if you measure an uneven one. Let me know if this does not work! :)