I also found another forum post that mentioned this problem for a user running open office and they said the way they did it was through X11 preferences in the menu bar, they said when it went full screen, command+shift+A gave them access to menu bar but this did not work for me, can't find a way to access the X11 menu bar... it's either full screen black and white chequed background or nothing at all (just X11 dock icon)... is there a way to edit these preferences in command line or something?