Re: Jumping Dock
Hi Pat, In Mavericks, any display can be the active display. You can tell which one is active by looking at the Menu Bar at the top. The active display will be crisp and white while the non-active display will have a Menu Bar that is dimmed and translucent. Not sure if this is what you want. To bring the Dock over to a different display: 1. If you've clicked on a display to make it active, note how the Menu Bar brightens. But you don't need to. 2. Without clicking the mouse again, move the cursor all the way to the bottom of the screen. This is the same technique as if you had invoked System Preferences Dock Automatically hide and show the Dock 3. When the cursor touches the bottom, the Dock will rise up from the bottom and stay there on the selected display. (If you had previously enabled Automatically hide and show the Dock, it will disappear as you move the mouse upwards, but remain tied to that display). 4. To move the Dock back to the Main Display (or any other display), repeat the process starting with Step 1. From what I can ascertain, the Dock doesn't jump between screens when you make a new one active because it may not need to. If the above is not what you want, perhaps this is. Move your Dock on the Primary Display to one of the sides (left or right). When the Dock is positioned on the side of the screen, it will not jump between displays. You can change the positioning of the Dock in System Preferences Dock. If none of the above is what you want Just ignore... ;-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 27 Mar 2014, at 1:33 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have a few complaints about the Mavericks OS, but they are probably of interest only to those who use 2 or more monitors. I am using 2 monitors and am building a website, by hand, using BBEdit as the editing software. The left monitor is the larger one, and I put most of my documents there while I work on the code.. The right monitor is where I preview the results. I want the Dock to be at the bottom of the right monitor. However, it keeps hopping over to the left. This brings up an associated difficulty: where the focus on the Menu bar at the top goes. I am constantly switching between BBEdit, and Safari. Half the time, the ‘non focus’ menu bar is dimmed to the point of illegibility. Three questions: 1. Is there any way to pin the Dock down so that it won’t flip around? 2. Is it possible to cause the Menu bars on both monitors to be highlighted? 3. Is it possible to prevent Safari from opening the Top Sites page every time it is opened? It keeps coming back and cluttering up the view. Thanks, Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Jumping Dock
I have a few complaints about the Mavericks OS, but they are probably of interest only to those who use 2 or more monitors. I am using 2 monitors and am building a website, by hand, using BBEdit as the editing software. The left monitor is the larger one, and I put most of my documents there while I work on the code.. The right monitor is where I preview the results. I want the Dock to be at the bottom of the right monitor. However, it keeps hopping over to the left. This brings up an associated difficulty: where the focus on the Menu bar at the top goes. I am constantly switching between BBEdit, and Safari. Half the time, the ‘non focus’ menu bar is dimmed to the point of illegibility. Three questions: 1. Is there any way to pin the Dock down so that it won’t flip around? 2. Is it possible to cause the Menu bars on both monitors to be highlighted? 3. Is it possible to prevent Safari from opening the Top Sites page every time it is opened? It keeps coming back and cluttering up the view. Thanks, Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Jumping Dock
Hi Pat I have a similar problem with my Dock. I have a MBAir with a connected screen. I prefer to have the dock at the bottom of the screen. Intermittently, the dock disappears. I can get it back - I go to System Prefs, choose to switch the dock from bottom to either side and then back to bottom. Voila! It works. Yes, it works, but it’s tedious. I’ve hunted around but I can’t find anywhere to “pin” it. David On 27 Mar 2014, at 1:33 pm, Pat clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have a few complaints about the Mavericks OS, but they are probably of interest only to those who use 2 or more monitors. I am using 2 monitors and am building a website, by hand, using BBEdit as the editing software. The left monitor is the larger one, and I put most of my documents there while I work on the code.. The right monitor is where I preview the results. I want the Dock to be at the bottom of the right monitor. However, it keeps hopping over to the left. This brings up an associated difficulty: where the focus on the Menu bar at the top goes. I am constantly switching between BBEdit, and Safari. Half the time, the ‘non focus’ menu bar is dimmed to the point of illegibility. Three questions: 1. Is there any way to pin the Dock down so that it won’t flip around? 2. Is it possible to cause the Menu bars on both monitors to be highlighted? 3. Is it possible to prevent Safari from opening the Top Sites page every time it is opened? It keeps coming back and cluttering up the view. Thanks, Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Jumping Dock
Pat On 27/03/2014, at 1:33 PM, Pat wrote: Three questions: 1. Is there any way to pin the Dock down so that it won’t flip around? 2. Is it possible to cause the Menu bars on both monitors to be highlighted? 3. Is it possible to prevent Safari from opening the Top Sites page every time it is opened? It keeps coming back and cluttering up the view. I cannot help with 1 and 2, but for 3: Navigate in Safari to the page that you want to open when you start up Safari In the menu, go to Safari/Preferences/General and click the set to current page button That's it Regards Geoff --- Kaye and Geoff k...@kgweb.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
