1/20/2024 0 Comments Mac move dock between screens![]() ![]() I used Second Bar a lot with mountain lion and found it to work well (although you need to have a second renamed copy of the app for each additional screen) I have not used it with Mavericks so cannot say how well it does or does not work. If don't want a hidden dock, and you want top menus bars on each screen, and dock fixed at the bottom, the best workaround appears to be to basically disable all the new mavericks stuff by disabling 'each screen is its own space' Then get a utility like "Second Bar" which while discontinued is still available, as a way to get a menu bar at the top of each screen. This was something I really like about mavericks (multiple menu bars) but sadly it seems to come at the price of the annoying jumping dock Obviously folks have different perspectives, but one thing I HATED about mac's multi-monitor support was having to move to an entirely different screen to access the top-screen menu for a program open on a different screen. You can turn off the each monitor is own space stuff, but then you lose having the menu bar at the top of each screen. (I strongly suspect anyone doing usability testing had things set this way and thought it was just great, and why would anyone want to see the dock all the time anyway. It is rather there when you want it, and hidden otherwise. This might be the 'best' solution, provided you like a hidden dock, as you can then easily access it on any screen, but it is not in the way or annoying you by being seen to 'jump around'. You can hide it, so it won't obscure stuff, but it will still move around whenever mouse is 'bottomed' on a screen for small period of time. If monitors are side by side, you can move it ALL-THE-WAY to the left or right and it will stay there, but that is not as requested (or as many people desire) at the bottom of a single screen. However, few of us arrange this way and those who do would most likely not be asking this question. If monitors are arranged 'stacked' then the dock will be at bottom of the bottom monitor. If you're using a trackpad, you can change the number of fingers the gesture uses. The number of fingers the gesture uses will be displayed below. Check the Swipe between full-screen apps box. (I would be glad to be proven wrong here, but I've looked a bunch and not found a way) Click Mouse if you're using a Magic Mouse. No idea why anyone would think that that's a good idea but I googled it and unchecked the 'displays have separate spaces' setting to fix it (which apparently needs. Without resorting to a third party app, there is no way to have menu bars in each screen but lock the dock to the bottom of a single screen. I've got a 2-monitor setup and just noticed a really weird behavior: When you move a window half-way across to the second monitor, it's cut off. For some reason the good folks at apple have conflated the top of screen menu with the dock, and if you get one on any screen, you also get the other. (It can, however, be rearranged within its current display's spaces bar.) All other desktops can be moved between displays.Ī corollary of all of this is that if a display has only one desktop, you cannot move that space to another display.Īs a workaround, if you want to move the first desktop from one space to another, first switch to another desktop on its space (create another desktop first if one does not already exist), and then it will become possible to move the first desktop from that space.There is to my knowledge no good solution to this issue. ![]() The one limitation to dragging spaces between displays is that the current desktop for a display cannot be moved to a different display. (aside from the spaces bar itself) will temporarily switch to showing theĭisplay's current desktop, even though the spaces bar shows the When you open mission control, the majority of each display Then the display's current desktop is instead its first (ie: lowest-numbered)ĭesktop. However, if the current space for a given display is not a desktop, If the display's current space is a desktop, then that is also its current desktop. The current desktop is not necessarily the current space! In addition to a current space, each display also has a current desktop. When in mission control, it's the space that has a heavy border in the spaces bar. This is the space that is visible when you are not in mission control. There are two kinds of spaces: full screen spaces, and desktops.Įach display (ignoring mirrored displays) has an ordered list of spaces, and one of these is that display's current space. ![]() However, there is one, sometimes extremely confusing, limitation. Drag the space from its spaces bar to another display's spaces bar.The "spaces bar" will appear on the top of each display. ![]()
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