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Short explanation: You can use multiple monitors just fine in extended Desktop mode. However, there are two issues that drive people crazy: 1) When you go ena
by jakobe 13y ago
Short explanation: You can use multiple monitors just fine in extended Desktop mode.
However, there are two issues that drive people crazy:
1) When you go enable full screen mode for an app, the app fills one display and all other displays are blanked with a gray linnen texture. That's may be useful if you are watching a movie and don't want other displays to annoy you, but it's really annoying if you just want eg. Mail full screen on a secondary monitor.
2) Mac OS Lion also added a feature named "Spaces" (I think this is called virtual desktops or so on other platforms). The problem is that when you switch between spaces, both screens switch simultaneously. Now let's assume you use your secondary monitor to show an IM client, or to show some live error log, or similar, it's really annoying if that disappears when you switch between spaces on your main display.
So OS X 10.9 finally makes two features introduced in 10.7 (Full screen mode, spaces) usable for people with multiple monitors.
- selectodude 13y agoReally, 10.9 just fixes two regressions that worked perfectly fine in 10.6 and were dutifully broken in 10.7.
- adestefan 13y ago> 2) Mac OS Lion also added a feature named "Spaces" (I think this is called virtual desktops or so on other platforms). The problem is that when you switch between spaces, both screens switch simultaneously. Now let's assume you use your secondary monitor to show an IM client, or to show some live error log, or similar, it's really annoying if that disappears when you switch between spaces on your main display. Can you explain how is this fixed? Are the spaces on each monitor independent or is there a method to "always show" certain windows? Because I really hate the former method.
- tvon 13y agoYou can either have independent spaces (switch screen 1 to a different space while screen 2 remains unchanged) or you can have them linked (when switching screen 1, screen 2 also changes).
- Jare 13y agoToday was my first experience with 2 monitors on OSX (10.8), knowing nothing about how it was going to work, and your description of my feelings this morning is absolutely perfect.
- 0x09 13y agoSpaces was part of 10.5 in 2007. Apple were late to the game, but not that late.