![]() ![]() The cursor won't cross for about the bottom 1/4 of the HP, and when I move the cursor up so it will cross, it appears at the bottom of the Cinema Display. When I move the cursor down toward the middle of the Cinema Display, it crosses over but appears a the top of the HP.Ī similar thing happens moving from the HP to the Cinema Display, except at the bottom of the screen. I have to move the cursor more toward the middle to cross over. I've noticed the following: If the cursor is on my Cinema Display and I move it left toward the HP, at about the top 1/4 of the screen the cursor won't cross comes to the edge of the screen and stops. I just added the HP about a month ago, and this is the first I've had dual displays.so I'm still learning. On my right I have an old 23" Apple HD Cinema Display (max resolution 1920x1200). With that said, I’ve used it now for 2 months with no problems, so I think its worth a shot.On my left I have a new HP 2311 23" monitor (maximum dpi 1600x900). He says try it at your own risk because its fairly new in its development lifecycle. You can download the software from the developers website here. If you’ve run it with three monitors, please let us know in the comments. And, in fact, it seems to support more than just 2 monitors (although I haven’t tested this). It adds an additional bar to your external monitor. ![]() What I found was SecondBar, and it does exactly what you’d expect. Since the default setting on older versions of OS X was to not include a menubar on external monitors I went digging for a solution. Adding The Menu Bar to External Displays on Older Versions of OS X. This will make it so the menu bar only shows on your primary desktop & space. ![]() Turn off “Displays have separate spaces”.If you don’t want to see the menu bar on your second monitor or TV as you’re making a presentation, you can follow the steps in reverse: How To Remove The Menu Bar from a Second Monitor With the Displays have separate spaces option enabled, a menu bar should now appear on your second or third monitor. Turn on “Displays have separate spaces”.Select Desktop & Doc and then scroll down to the Mission Control Settings.Select “System Preferences” from the dropdown menu.Click on the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your screen.Make sure the display is turned on and set to the correct input. Connect your external display to your Mac using the appropriate cable or adapter.Here are the steps to add or remove the menu bar from an external display: If you’re using an external display with your Mac and you don’t see the menu bar by default, you may want to adjust how the menu bar is displayed. ![]() Depending on your settings, you may not see a menubar on your external monitor. Sure, when I’m traveling I make do on my small 13.3″ screen, but when I’m at a desk, I go right for the cord to connect the 2nd monitor to give myself some more working space.Īs part of my transition from PC to Mac, it took some time to get used to the Mac Menu bar as it isn’t always a 1:1 relationship with the Windows Start Bar. Its particularly bad now that I’ve switched to a smaller MacBook Air with a 13.3″ screen from a big ‘ol Dell I was using before. I find it impossible to get a lot of productive work done on a laptop screen without hooking up an external monitor. ![]()
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