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It's a joke they still haven't fixed the fullscreen feature rendering your second monitor useless. I can't understand why they did it that way and why it hasn't

It's a joke they still haven't fixed the fullscreen feature rendering your second monitor useless. I can't understand why they did it that way and why it hasn't been fixed already.

illicium 14y ago
Everyone keeps saying this, but I think it's FUD. They've fixed the main gripe with Lion's full screen: not being able to full screen an app on the monitor of your choice (as opposed to the main monitor only). Why is the second monitor useless? I'm sure you can still drag app windows to it and interact with them. edit: You can drag child windows of the full-screened app to the second monitor. The whole point of the full-screen mode is to isolate the app and give it exclusive focus. For everything else, there's the zoom button.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  > Why is the second monitor useless? I'm sure you can still drag app windows (as well as other apps) to it and interact with them. Uh, no. You can't. That's the gripe. Way to be dismissive when you don't even grok the complaint.
- risratorn 14y ago
  Well that's the real problem, you can't ... when you fullscreen an app the second monitor just displays a gray fabric background but you can't put apps, widgets, or anything else for that mater on it. It's a fail I wasn't expecting from Apple.
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div 14y ago
Agreed, it's ridiculous. I went out and bought SizeUp which, among a ton of other window positioning shortcuts, gives me a shortcut to resize an app to fullscreen on a single monitor, without making the second monitor useless. http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
Zr40 14y ago
Are you sure about that? Apple lists exactly that as one of the features of Mountain Lion: Go full screen on any display If you have a secondary display connected to your Mac, you can take an app full screen on either display. Drag the window to the desired display and click the full-screen button. http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#system http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#system
- mdonahoe 14y ago
  But you still can't use both screens simultaneously. One of your screens will contain a fullscreen app, and the. Other will have that linen background
- Udo 14y ago
  But the point is they still blank all the other screens.

It's a joke they still haven't fixed the fullscreen feature rendering your second monitor useless. I can't understand why they did it that way and why it hasn't been fixed already.

illicium 14y ago

Everyone keeps saying this, but I think it's FUD. They've fixed the main gripe with Lion's full screen: not being able to full screen an app on the monitor of your choice (as opposed to the main monitor only). Why is the second monitor useless? I'm sure you can still drag app windows to it and interact with them. edit: You can drag child windows of the full-screened app to the second monitor. The whole point of the full-screen mode is to isolate the app and give it exclusive focus. For everything else, there's the zoom button.

drivebyacct2 14y ago
> Why is the second monitor useless? I'm sure you can still drag app windows (as well as other apps) to it and interact with them. Uh, no. You can't. That's the gripe. Way to be dismissive when you don't even grok the complaint.
risratorn 14y ago
Well that's the real problem, you can't ... when you fullscreen an app the second monitor just displays a gray fabric background but you can't put apps, widgets, or anything else for that mater on it. It's a fail I wasn't expecting from Apple.
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div 14y ago

Agreed, it's ridiculous. I went out and bought SizeUp which, among a ton of other window positioning shortcuts, gives me a shortcut to resize an app to fullscreen on a single monitor, without making the second monitor useless. http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

Zr40 14y ago

Are you sure about that? Apple lists exactly that as one of the features of Mountain Lion: Go full screen on any display If you have a secondary display connected to your Mac, you can take an app full screen on either display. Drag the window to the desired display and click the full-screen button. http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#system http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#system

mdonahoe 14y ago
But you still can't use both screens simultaneously. One of your screens will contain a fullscreen app, and the. Other will have that linen background
Udo 14y ago
But the point is they still blank all the other screens.