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Not a mac user here but its amusing to know that OS X has had problems supporting such simple things such as dual monitor.
by barista 14y ago
Not a mac user here but its amusing to know that OS X has had problems supporting such simple things such as dual monitor.
- eropple 14y agoIt has no problem with dual monitors. Or four. (On a dual-video-card Hackintosh, no less.) The problem is with the full-screen behavior introduced in Lion. And it does suck, but I personally it very low on the list of annoyances.
- r00fus 14y agoOSX has plenty of annoyances, and that's what this is - an annoyance. Multi-monitor support exists, it works great - just not on the Lion-new "fullscreen mode". I have used 4x simultaneous monitors on my MBP for years, and it's still more comfortable overall than Windows7 (YMMV - Win7's experience varies greatly on your drivers/hardware). Apple has always had issues with window-management, it's one of those things like lock-screen that Windows still does better in some ways.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago> it's one of those things like lock-screen that Windows still does better in some ways. Right? Unless I'm missing something, my friends and I all use a hot corner to activate the Screen Off to be able to lock our screens when we leave our laptops since there is no Win+L or Lock equivalent. :/ I guess they just expect me to close it everytime I leave? I have lots of long running stuff that I normally don't want to stop just because I want to go to the kitchen or bathroom.
- fwonkas 14y agoI don't remember if it has to be configured, but I just press Ctrl-Shift-Eject to lock my screen.
- swampthing 14y agoThere's no eject button on Macbook Airs
- GrumpySimon 14y agoHit the power button. It pops up a modal with restart, sleep, shut down and cancel.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoIt's like no one read my post. I specifically do not want to sleep.
- zuppy 14y agothe sleeping is only for the monitors, the computer is still running.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoThat's... not true.
- zuppy 14y agocmd + alt + eject is the sleep you're thinking about. ctrl + shift + eject is just for the displays :)
- Intermernet 14y agoHi, A couple of minutes of Googling gave me http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090831093941225 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2009083109394122... but it does involve using Automator. I'm surprised you can't re-assign in the keyboard shortcuts preferences from what I can see, but it might be worth looking there just in case. Hope it helps!
- mryall 14y agoYou can go into the Keyboard system preferences and set a keyboard shortcut for "Sleep".
- r00fus 14y agoActually, that's now resolved since Snow Leopard - there's a "sleep display" key-combo (IIRC: Ctrl-Shift-Eject) that, combined with screensaver password will do effectively Win+L. My major issue is that sometimes it showed content before screen is unlocked (likely my displaylink device) or fails to unlock (sleep/unsleep resolves this)
- dmishe 14y ago>I have used 4x simultaneous monitors on my MBP What do you use for that?
- r00fus 14y agoDisplaylink x2 + 1 MiniDP + laptop screen http://www.displaylink.com/ http://www.displaylink.com/ I run two older versions of this evga product (as my monitors are older - 1650x1080). http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-100-U2-UV19-TR-Supporting-2048x1152-Resolution/dp/B003L53C2E http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-100-U2-UV19-TR-Supporting-2048x11...