Aperture is the first program I've consider using Full Screen mode.
When I enter Full Screen mode, the desktop background for my second display (not the one display Aperture) changes to what I beleive is the default Lion background. Not the background I set in System Preferences.
Is this something I can change?
Or is this some default Lion way of how Full Screen works?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), FCP 7 and FCP X
That is a known issue in Lion; Full screen Mode seems to make the second display useless, see one of the many threads on this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193502
I have waited a bit with my answer, hoping for some good news by now, for this problem has been known since the Lion raised its head in June.
Try the Maximize Window Button instead of "Full Screen" mode,that should keep your second display working.
Regards
Léonie
That is a known issue in Lion; Full screen Mode seems to make the second display useless, see one of the many threads on this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193502
I have waited a bit with my answer, hoping for some good news by now, for this problem has been known since the Lion raised its head in June.
Try the Maximize Window Button instead of "Full Screen" mode,that should keep your second display working.
Regards
Léonie
I want' expecting it to work. I just wanted to keep the desktop background at the color I set.
If this is a known Lion issue, I'm sure Apple has gotten enough feedback on this.
Odd why they haven't included it in any of the point releases.
When I enter Full Screen mode, the desktop background for my second display (not the one display Aperture) changes to what I beleive is the default Lion background. Not the background I set in System Preferences.
Just guessing and trying to understand what is happening: The problem seems to be caused by two things:
An Application in Full Screen Mode will move sideways to the new Full Screen Desktop, that is a different one from all the desktops you configure in Mission Control. And this Desktop inherently has the fashionable, grey linnen backdrop, you can do nothing about it -afik-, short of patching the Appkit-Framework in the System Library:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullS creenBackgroundColor.png
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullS creenBackgroundColor.png
But then you never would see the grey linnen again.
And - that I really consider to be a bug - an application in Full Screen Mode seems to grab all screens, not only one. So the second screen also shows the backdrop of the virtual screen.
Regards
Léonie
That seems to be the way it works.
Thankfully the default is the gray linen and not something like the Snow Leopard. I keep my Desktops and application backgrounds dark gray. Having something bright would be bad.
I'm not sure why they feel the need to change your desktop in full screen mode. If I set my Desktop, it should not change.
Full Screen Mode, Desktop Background Changes
