Comments on: OS X Multi-Monitor Setup

By: Afandi Ahmet II

Afandi Ahmet II — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:25:00 +0000

is there any way to turn off the secondary monitor?without having to physically disconnect the monitor from the MBP to save resources when in full screen?

By: krzyglue

krzyglue — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:18:06 +0000

Uhh, OSX handles multi-monitors better than windows? Actually, my opinion is that they BOTH handle it poorly out-of-the-box. OSX still only has one menu-bar, no matter how many monitors are connected. So if I have a program open on the secondary monitor and want to access a menu function, I’d have to move the mouse all the way to the primary monitor. Windows only does one taskbar, so switching programs is a bit of a pain.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:31:05 +0000

I have a dual monitor on my mac pro. I’m looking for a way to span my itunes display effect accross the screen i’m referring to what happens when your playing a song on itunes and press [command+T]

currently its only happening on the screen where i put itunes at, which is logical. If this is not possible, is there anyway i can get screensavers similar to the effect on itunes, that i can accross the multiple screens. thanks

By: Fauntleroy

Fauntleroy — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:04:13 +0000

Maybe someone can help me: I’m using he dual monitor mode for presentations nearly every day. I’m using Windows XP on my Macbook, because with Max OS, the Powerpoint for Mac or Keynote app is changing the dual screen mode if I switch to another app (e.g documents). I would like to have the presentation slide still on the projector, regardless what I’m doing on my macbook. This works fine with XP.
Regards,
Fauntleroy

By: T

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:31:36 +0000

So, with only a single menu bar for all screens, if you are running your app on the second window (the one without a menu), you have to mouse an entire screen to reach the menu for that app. How do you get around that?

By: zackn9ne

zackn9ne — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:48:47 +0000

i seem to remember this from the early mac os 7 or so. thx for the reminder.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:54:17 +0000

I used to work on dual monitor setup with Vista, but decided to move to a macbook pro. I still have 2 24″ LCDs, but realized you can’t use them with a macbook pro. IT only supports one external monitor. And having one 24 and one 13″ is stupid.. sigh.. damn mac

By: Mr B

Mr B — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:44:50 +0000

You said I only had to drag the menu bar. On OSX Leopard I found I had to go to Preferences >> Displays >> Arrangement >> then drag the little white bar in the graphic.

Not intuitive at all, as there is no obvious reason to think that this part of the UI was modifiable. A search on google tells me that I am not the only one who found this non-intuitive.

Windows XP is more user friendly here as it has a button “Use this device as the primary monitor”, and this makes the UI logic obvious to the user.

By: garciajero

garciajero — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:22:00 +0000

this guy is a retarded , is the typical retarded who spend hours changing the colour of his fucking background DEATH TO FALSE NERDS!

By: urlame101

urlame101 — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:37:25 +0000

u mean hdmi

By: akumaky

akumaky — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:27:03 +0000

?????

By: Zanzabar199

Zanzabar199 — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:35:02 +0000

being a geek is cool

By: macmanj1991

macmanj1991 — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:50:20 +0000

how many mbp do you have

By: bigguybig93

bigguybig93 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:38:50 +0000

Oh wow, that is a big insult to Chris Pirillo. LOL

By: DrDarwinian

DrDarwinian — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:48:24 +0000

i hate that he has awesome computers