Hay Apple Qustion ?
2The task bar seems to switch back and for†h between my laptop and the thunderbolt monitor in å random manner. This is somewhat annoying. Is there any rhyme or reason for this or is it one of those undocumented Apple attributes that I should learn to love?
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Are you also posting on that Mac? I think it might be possessed by the devil.
@The_Baron Nåh.. I†s just an øve®use oƒ the Option ke¥.
Yeah, I'm working in a real graphics dept so you know what that means.
are hay apples like horse apples?
Not quite but that opinion could change the more I work with this.
When you rest your mouse at the bottom of the screen the dock decides you want it there and moves to the screen where your mouse is.
@jqubed Oh Thanks, That I can't find the cursor half the time I now understand.
@cranky1950 make the cursor shake real fast when you can't find it.
@cranky1950 Assuming you are running OS X 10.11 El Capitan, @katylava's tip is GOLD - shaking the mouse makes the arrow grow temporarily.
If you are on an earlier OS version, then you will still have to look carefully for the small shaking arrow.
@cranky1950 bonus tip:
@katylava You're my new most favorite person ever.
Look in Settings for all sorts of options!
Settings, Display:
The one at the top is the "menu bar"
Settings, Dock
The one at the bottom is the "dock"
Hay @cranky1950!
The reason for this is that in the new versions of OS X, Apple turns on the option to treat separate displays as their own "Spaces". You can tell this is active by dragging a window half way across to the other screen. If it shows up kind of greyed out until you bring it fully to the other screen, then it is active.
Part of that is that whatever display you are working on at any one time becomes the primary display, and that is why you are finding the Dock on whichever display you happen to be on.
To turn this off, go into System Preferences --> Mission Control and uncheck the "Displays have separate spaces" box.
You may need to log out or reboot for it to take effect, but when it is done, you will effectively have one huge virtual screen that spans the two displays, the way OS X used to handle things. That means one menu bar and one Dock.
You can then go into System Preferences --> Displays under the Arrangement tab and move the menu bar to whichever display you would like the menu bar to show up on.
And then you should be good to go.
You're using Apple.
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@f00l Hey the paychecks don't bounce and the cafeteria is good. I can live with apple.
Thanks everyone. It's no less frustrating but at least now I know why.
Given how frustrated you sound in general, I would suggest turning off Hot Corners. I use 'em -- well, really I just use one to lock the screen -- but if you aren't really aware of their existence they can cause a lot of crazy-looking behavior.