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Terole

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Hi there,

Just wanted to share a small trickery with everyone. Nova launcher can hide your statusbar on desktop, so if you go now to the second screen options click more and then "show time while content is shown" you are going to have a full screen desktop thanks to nova and the second screen to act as your statusbar (kind of). It not a full fledged statusbar since it only represents time wifi ,cell signal and battery but it works also gives you notifications etc..

:good:
 

egren58

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Hi there,

Just wanted to share a small trickery with everyone. Nova launcher can hide your statusbar on desktop, so if you go now to the second screen options click more and then "show time while content is shown" you are going to have a full screen desktop thanks to nova and the second screen to act as your statusbar (kind of). It not a full fledged statusbar since it only represents time wifi ,cell signal and battery but it works also gives you notifications etc..

:good:
Good find. Only if we could edit the font of second screen
 

djnikkofb

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2 ways...
1) Flash a Font
2) Screenshot_2017-01-31-12-02-54.png

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djnikkofb

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please PM me. I don't want to clog thread unrelated to topic if that's OK?

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---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:09 PM ----------

in short, I researched Flashable Fonts for LG v10, and found the iPhone font which looks phenomenal.

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kaluna00

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Will you provide a screen shot?

Hi there,

Just wanted to share a small trickery with everyone. Nova launcher can hide your statusbar on desktop, so if you go now to the second screen options click more and then "show time while content is shown" you are going to have a full screen desktop thanks to nova and the second screen to act as your statusbar (kind of). It not a full fledged statusbar since it only represents time wifi ,cell signal and battery but it works also gives you notifications etc..

:good:
 

bryanpen

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The problem is that with this launcher you lose like 80% of functions that you had on stock UI. If you clear home default and switch back and forth between launchers a few times you will see the second screen become more or less a status bar
 
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nickthaskater

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The problem is that with this launcher you lose like 80% of functions that you had on stock UI. If you clear home default and switch back and forth between launchers a few times you will see the second screen become more or less a status bar

What do you mean by this? I use Nova and my second screen still appears to have all of the stock functionality. What do you figure you're losing with Nova vs. LG Home?
 

nickthaskater

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When I switched from LG home to Nova the recent apps automatically changed to clock and signal bars. Recent apps did not show again until I switched back

Weird. I went to Nova on day one and haven't looked back. I still have all the functionality of the second screen, including recent apps. Perhaps you experienced a bug in Nova?
 

Aaren11

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Weird. I went to Nova on day one and haven't looked back. I still have all the functionality of the second screen, including recent apps. Perhaps you experienced a bug in Nova?

What they are describing, is the very feature this thread was made to discuss. If you enable "hide status bar" in Nova, it replaces the secondary screen shortcuts, with the battery / signal / notification icons.
 
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nickthaskater

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What they are describing, is the very feature this thread was made to discuss. If you enable "hide status bar" in Nova, it replaces the secondary screen shortcuts, with the battery / signal / notification icons.

Ah, I got it. Yeah, that's definitely a thing. That said, it still renders the assertion I originally replied to, "The problem is that with this launcher you lose like 80% of functions that you had on stock UI," as false.
 

Aaren11

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Ah, I got it. Yeah, that's definitely a thing. That said, it still renders the assertion I originally replied to, "The problem is that with this launcher you lose like 80% of functions that you had on stock UI," as false.

Yep. Nova works very well in place of stock. Just keep the 'hide the status bar on homescreen' option disabled - and you can use the second display just as you would on the stock LG Home launcher.
 
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UTNoodle

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Hi there,
Just wanted to share a small trickery with everyone. Nova launcher can hide your statusbar on desktop, so if you go now to the second screen options click more and then "show time while content is shown" you are going to have a full screen desktop thanks to nova and the second screen to act as your statusbar (kind of). It not a full fledged statusbar since it only represents time wifi ,cell signal and battery but it works also gives you notifications etc..

Iv had this for a little while and its alright. added the notification pull down button to my nav bar / thumb contols.
(Nova launcher, pixel n icons, dpi@460, System ui tuner to keep 2nd screen in immersive mode)(android wear icons is because im debugging my watch, normally icons mid+ show)

Note: double tap to lock the on the status bar does not work on the home screen anymore

IMG_20171127_020614.jpg
 
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nickthaskater

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Yep. Nova works very well in place of stock. Just keep the 'hide the status bar on homescreen' option disabled - and you can use the second display just as you would on the stock LG Home launcher.

Just to add, you can also assign a gesture in Nova to show/hide the status bar, which in turn affects the second screen. Now you can have control over the second screen on the fly, at your leisure.
 

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I've hidden the status bar in nova, but can still see the second screen , as this is now my notification area . If you want to see the status bar , battery , bars etc then i double tap on the home screen . Yes it does make the screen a bit bigger , but you cant " bleed" into the second screen , it would be good if you could use both screens as one .
 

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    Hi there,

    Just wanted to share a small trickery with everyone. Nova launcher can hide your statusbar on desktop, so if you go now to the second screen options click more and then "show time while content is shown" you are going to have a full screen desktop thanks to nova and the second screen to act as your statusbar (kind of). It not a full fledged statusbar since it only represents time wifi ,cell signal and battery but it works also gives you notifications etc..

    :good:
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    please PM me. I don't want to clog thread unrelated to topic if that's OK?

    Sent from my LG-H918 using Tapatalk

    ---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:09 PM ----------

    in short, I researched Flashable Fonts for LG v10, and found the iPhone font which looks phenomenal.

    Sent from my LG-H918 using Tapatalk
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    The problem is that with this launcher you lose like 80% of functions that you had on stock UI. If you clear home default and switch back and forth between launchers a few times you will see the second screen become more or less a status bar
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    Weird. I went to Nova on day one and haven't looked back. I still have all the functionality of the second screen, including recent apps. Perhaps you experienced a bug in Nova?

    What they are describing, is the very feature this thread was made to discuss. If you enable "hide status bar" in Nova, it replaces the secondary screen shortcuts, with the battery / signal / notification icons.
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    Ah, I got it. Yeah, that's definitely a thing. That said, it still renders the assertion I originally replied to, "The problem is that with this launcher you lose like 80% of functions that you had on stock UI," as false.

    Yep. Nova works very well in place of stock. Just keep the 'hide the status bar on homescreen' option disabled - and you can use the second display just as you would on the stock LG Home launcher.