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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:01 AM
This is particularly annoying when you, for instance, want to view a fulsscreen movie on your HDTV using the newest version of VLC while using your Mac's display to browse the web or so. Hate it.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:13 AM
How will Mountain Lion handle this? Any changes?
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:13 AM
You should mention that Mountain Lion is fixing full-screen apps and multiple displays.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:20 AM
Final Cut Pro X works really well with 2 monitors in full screen mode.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:22 AM
wholeexpansehho4, on 18 June 2012 - 10:13 AM, said:
You should mention that Mountain Lion is fixing full-screen apps and multiple displays.
That doesn't appear to be the case in this instance. What Mtn. Lion will do is this:
Go full screen on any display
If you have a secondary display connected to your Mac, you can take an app full screen on either display. Drag the window to the desired display and click the full-screen button.
That isn't the same thing as running two full-screen applications on two monitors.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:23 AM
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:28 AM
HernanTelloLarios, on 18 June 2012 - 10:01 AM, said:
This is particularly annoying when you, for instance, want to view a fulsscreen movie on your HDTV using the newest version of VLC while using your Mac's display to browse the web or so. Hate it.
Candid Question: Why would you want/need to browse the web, or so, while watching a movie?
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:34 AM
Chris Breen, on 18 June 2012 - 10:22 AM, said:
wholeexpansehho4, on 18 June 2012 - 10:13 AM, said:
You should mention that Mountain Lion is fixing full-screen apps and multiple displays.
That doesn't appear to be the case in this instance. What Mtn. Lion will do is this:
Go full screen on any display
If you have a secondary display connected to your Mac, you can take an app full screen on either display. Drag the window to the desired display and click the full-screen button.
That isn't the same thing as running two full-screen applications on two monitors.
This is good to hear. Last night my wife was watching something via Slingbox on the HDTV and I wanted to do some Photoshop stuff. I tried hard to make Safari go full screen on the TV but the best I could do was the workaround you mentioned--I did the pop-up player on Slingbox and dragged to the HDTV--I then used Photoshop on the Cinema Display. I do think its a little wonky to have to buy Mt. Lion to make Safari be full screen on the secondary monitor but whatevs--for 20 bones I intend to upgrade anyway!
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 10:42 AM
Lion's full screen mode seems half baked at best. If you have two monitors hooked up, you should at the very least be able to use the second display for another full screen document of the same application (two Safari windows for instance).
Its behavior causes a lot of issues even if you're only using one monitor. Command-tabbing from a full screen app to a non-full screen app sometimes shows the wrong app in the foreground for instance. This is a usability disaster that Apple still hasn't addressed. Secondly, you can't Command+~ between full screen windows of the same application.
I'm hope Apple addresses the full screen shortcomings in 10.8, but I think some of this should have been worked out long before they even let Lion ship.
Its behavior causes a lot of issues even if you're only using one monitor. Command-tabbing from a full screen app to a non-full screen app sometimes shows the wrong app in the foreground for instance. This is a usability disaster that Apple still hasn't addressed. Secondly, you can't Command+~ between full screen windows of the same application.
I'm hope Apple addresses the full screen shortcomings in 10.8, but I think some of this should have been worked out long before they even let Lion ship.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 11:03 AM
Composing a new e-mail while Mail.app is in full screen mode is really stupid. You are forced to only have the composition window as the focus; no looking at other messages or such as reference. I have an 11" MBA (which I assume is the target market for this feature) and I NEVER use full screen mode. (I really wanted to like this feature, too.) I use Divvy. A very simple, clean and fairly inexpensive solution.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 11:03 AM
Woe is me. You can't do two full screen apps on two or monitors at once. Before Lion you couldn't do full screen at all (except yes, with a few video watching apps).
The solution? Watch in full sized windows, just like we have all been dong for decades.
And the person that said multiple monitors on the Mac was a joke? I beg to differ. For all of those long decades it has always been simple as can be to run multiple monitors.
The solution? Watch in full sized windows, just like we have all been dong for decades.
And the person that said multiple monitors on the Mac was a joke? I beg to differ. For all of those long decades it has always been simple as can be to run multiple monitors.
Life, like wine, is all about balance.
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Posted 18 June 2012 - 11:12 AM
pcharles, on 18 June 2012 - 10:33 AM, said:
One of the few places where Windows OS beats Mac OS is with multiple screens. Multiple monitors on the mac is a joke!
No matter how many displays are connected to a Mac, there is still only a single menu bar. So if you have an application on one monitor and need to access the menu commands, you may need to move the mouse over to a different monitor where the application may not be running. The Mac has supported multiple monitors since the late 1980's and this issue has still not been fixed.
