Dual Monitor Dilemma
Mintsauce (1004 pencils) | Mon, 2007-02-12 17:52I use a powerbook to work on. At the office I plug into an external monitor so I can have a schweet dual monitor setup. Some applications allow you to drag windows, palettes, dialogues etc to the secondary monitor... this is great. But plug it out, pack up and leave, open it up at home and lo and behold, those windows are eternally stuck on the, now invisible, secondary monitor. And once they're open (usually dialogues, not just palettes) the application is stuck until you finish using the dialogue. And who memorises dialoques?
Question 1 : Does this description make any sense?
Question 2 : Has anybody else had this problem?
Question 3 : Is there a magical OSX "Collect all application windows to primary monitor" button I'm missing somewhere? That would be a nice fix.
AAGH! Now I have to force quite Photoshop and start over...
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There's a "Gather Windows" button in the System Preferences under Displays ;)
I don't know if the secondary monitor needs to be attached to be able to see the option...
...it seems that option is only available when both monitors are running.
Thanks anyway.
Francois
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All the Adobe applications have "Workspaces" which saves where palettes appear when starting the app. You can set up a single monitor workspace and a dual monitor workspace, then select which one you want to use depending on where you're working. No restart is necessary.
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And I use them often. Only thing is, they don't affect unopened dialogues... and once the dialogue is open, all the menu items are greyed out.
Thanks anyway.
Francois
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