I run a two-display system on my bench, with one display (wall mount)
positioned over the other (laptop).
When I was running Windows recently in Parallels (which picks up that there are
two screens and uses them), I noticed that if I dragged a screen halfway
between the two displays, it stayed there just fine, split between displays.
Or, I could grow a screen to encompass both displays, giving me stuff like
extra-long browser windows or galley copies.
It triggered a long-ago memory of being able to do exactly this on the Mac, in
the classic OS. But I can't do it today.
If I try to drag a window halfway between two monitors, it will show a "ghost"
copy of the bottom of the window on the lower screen until I release the
window, then only the upper half of the window will show, on the upper screen.
(If the displays are arranged side-by-side, a similar thing happens, with the
partial window available only on the leftmost screen.)
This has resulted numerous times in a "lost window" syndrome, where I move a
window slightly to the left or right, but inadvertently manage to fat-finger it
upwards as well. Suddenly the whole window vanishes, save for a sliver on the
upper screen that is near invisible, hidden by the Dock, or whatever. Where did
my window go? Mission Control shows it as still existing, but it disappears
again when I click on it. Maddening.
Anyway, my question is, is there a setting I am overlooking somewhere on the
Mac that would allow the old split-display rendering? Obviously, there is no
technical reason it can't be done under OS X, because WIndows does it running
under Parallels under OS X.
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