Comments on: Multiple Monitors, Moving Menu Bar

By: Don

Don — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:00:59 +0000

Does anyone know if there’s a way to attach menus to windows (like in MS Windows) instead of screens? It’s the one thing that continually drives me batty — multiple large screens & flipping back and forth to get to a menu becomes a real pain.

By: Will Cox

Will Cox — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:29:31 +0000

Can I Have the menu bar and dock on my secondary display with out the mirro setting ?

By: Paul Herring

Paul Herring — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:41:25 +0000

I didn’t spot it either! Thanks so much for this, it’ll save me a lot of hassle!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:13:26 +0000

Anyone come across a fix for the following?

My setup is a G4 laptop on my desk, while behind and above it an HP LCD. The “Display” pane, on “Arrangement”, is set so the menu is way on top. All good, & I can mouse across and up and down the whole big approx. 13″ x 19″ extended desktop.

The problem is when trying to resize and scroll within a window spread over the two displays. Invariably, a long lanky window spread over them will–as I work within the application–snap and resize to a smaller size fitting within just the upper display. Any ideas how to keep applications/windows spread over the two displays, vertically, while actively working on them (as opposed to just looking/admiring, in which case all is fine).

Thanks!
Jeff

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:30:51 +0000

Dude. Thank you. I’ve been using macs forever and didn’t realize I could do this. Good deal.

By: FAS

FAS — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:41:44 +0000

Thank you guys. I was also racking my brain trying to figure out how to setup a primary external monitor. One other thing I discovered that might be useful to some. When I first moved the menu bar, the doc remained in the LCD MacBook monitor. It could not be moved to the larger external monitor. Then I noticed that if the MacBook monitor is not below the larger monitor on the arrangement screen, it will move with the menu bar. Nowhere it tells you that in the documentation even if you read it, and most of us don’t.

Any my problem is solved, thanks to all.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:29:27 +0000

Anyone get the problem that I have been having recently, that of apps
opening in windows that do not appear, fully on any screens, so you cant get to the title bar to drag and move them? Bloody annoying

If you have this, or often only run with one screen turned on, and your app opens on another screen, I have found a way to quickly, with a keyboard shortcut, bring it back on to the primary screen.
The app is called Window Wrangler, I leave it now as an auto start up item, so when ever I get an app open but cant seem its window, I go to it using CMD Tab, then Alt, CMD, and down arrow to make the open window jump back to the Primary monitor

Hope it helps someone

Neil

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:41:11 +0000

i dont f ing believe its that simple, only a year of being annoyed

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:42:02 +0000

Well, hardly excellent workaround, but as good as it is going to get till Apple gets its act together

By: George

George — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:53:38 +0000

I agree, I’d love to have a application specific menubar appear on the right monitor for the right application. Or even just mirror the menubar across all three monitors. For now DejaMenu is an excellent work around