Geek Posted August 11, 2011 Posted August 11, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/full-screen-multi-screen-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Full Screen App using Multiple Displays in Mac OS X Lion" title="full-screen-multi-screen-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="221" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20141" /></p> <p>Think Full Screen app mode wastes an external displays screen real estate in Mac OS X Lion? Think again. Despite various reports to the contrary, and even <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/16/os-x-lion-full-screen-app-mode-doesnt-play-well-with-external-displays/">early experience</a> with the Developer Preview, some <em>Full Screen apps in Mac OS X Lion work just fine with multiple monitor Mac setups</em>. In fact, <strong>the secondary display can hold toolbars, panels, windows, and other app data</strong> directly over the linen covered screen, without incident. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Using Full Screen Apps with Multiple Monitors in Mac OS X 10.7</h2> <p>This is remarkably easy, yet somehow widely overlooked:</p> <ul> <li>Enter Full Screen mode (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/10/full-screen-keyboard-shortcut-mac-os-x/">set a keyboard shortcut</a> if you haven’t already)</li> <li>Click and drag windows and toolbars from the primary display to the secondary display</li> </ul> <p>Yes, it is that simple. This is demonstrated clearly in the included screenshots, showing the latest version of <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=uO47tEUahH8&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fomnigraffle-pro-for-mac%252Fid404645717%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">OmniGraffle Pro</a> in Full Screen mode, with a secondary external screen holding all of OmniGraffles tool panels.</p> <p>The fact that this only works in some apps right now suggests it’s an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> compatibility issue that has to be implemented by the app developers on a per application basis, much like the use of Versions and full-screen mode in general. So if you find a Lion app that doesn’t play well with multiple monitors, wait for an update, because there’s no reason the apps can’t use the secondary display when in Full Screen.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/full-screen-toolbar-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Secondary Display holding panels and toolbars in Mac OS X Lion Full Screen App mode" title="full-screen-toolbar-os-x-lion" width="607" height="481" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20142" /></p> <p>This should hush the complaints about Lion’s full screen app mode being incompatible with multi-display Mac setups, because it’s not at all. Other than apps needing to adopt compatibility for this feature, it may benefit OS X Lion to have some indicator that this is possible, since currently there is nothing obvious pointing this out.</p> <p><em>Thanks for sending this in Michal!</em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oJsN3SfNkt_Er9TjmO_Ujpvip3s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oJsN3SfNkt_Er9TjmO_Ujpvip3s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oJsN3SfNkt_Er9TjmO_Ujpvip3s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oJsN3SfNkt_Er9TjmO_Ujpvip3s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=0i791QIYlsc:RbEB7tACrlc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=0i791QIYlsc:RbEB7tACrlc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=0i791QIYlsc:RbEB7tACrlc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=0i791QIYlsc:RbEB7tACrlc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=0i791QIYlsc:RbEB7tACrlc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=0i791QIYlsc:RbEB7tACrlc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=0i791QIYlsc:RbEB7tACrlc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/0i791QIYlsc" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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