On Dec 28, 2019, at 2:34 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have a MacPro ("ashcan") that supports up to 6 monitors. I have multiple >> large-screen monitors running right now, but I'd like to be able to have all >> but one go dark (black), such as when I'm watching a full-screen video on >> one monitor. The others being on are quite a distraction so I'd like to >> "blank" them for that purpose. >> >> Is there any keyboard shortcut (or other way) to do this (on Mojave)?
I can never keep track of which number is which name. On 10.10 and newer, there is an option in Preferences -> Displays to treat each monitor as a separate space. If this is turned off -- one shared space -- then the default action for "go full screen" becomes "blank all other monitors, and make this window full screen over one monitor". This is something I hate. I like being able to have a window spread over multiple monitors (wide gaming), and absolutely hate the bugs that show up if you make a window tall (one monitor above the other). I like being able to have a video full-screen on one monitor while working in the second. Most applications on 10.9 behave this way; occasionally, I have seen "blank the others", but not often. > Use mission control to create a desktop or the other screens, and make its > wallpaper black. If you want to darken the screens, just mouse to them and > scroll sideways to the black desktop. Yea, ick. I do keep a set of "black desktops", but the whole issue of dragging a window over to that desktop before making it full-screen ... Lets just say that Apple's virtual desktop design was not the best choice, okay? (Back before it became part of the OS, was it 10.5?, there were third party apps that gave virtual desktops with different behaviors.) >> - And if I *gasp* turn off the other monitors macOS thinks they're no longer >> connected and scrambles all of my carefully placed windows onto one. Oh, god, yes, the "Move all windows, and lose track of where they were" behavior. Hasn't Apple heard of "undo"? My best solution to that so far: If you hide an application, it will **usually** stay hidden, and not move windows, even when monitors are turned off and on. Well over 95% success rate for everything except finder. Last application that was hidden off a monitor tends to unhide when that monitor turns back on. If that app was Finder, good luck to you. >> - I'm skipping the upgrade to macOS Catalina completely. It's Horrorville. >> >> -Carl Is that the "Stop 32 bit apps completely"? Bad enough that they will die occasionally in 10.9.5 if idle and enough swap-out happens. And since the program I'm thinking of isn't even sold anymore, I couldn't upgrade even if I wanted to spend the $150 upgrade price (I think that's what they'd charge, i'm more than 2 versions out of date.) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
