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Ever since I updated to Final Cut 10.4.10, my window layout starts up switched (main application on my laptop and viewer on external monitor) instead of how the window layout was created and saved (main application window on an external monitor and viewer on laptop screen). I've cleared and re-created and re-saved my preferred window layout and it still comes up reversed every time I start up Final Cut. I have never had this issue in a previous version.
There is a misunderstanding here. Your window layout - Workspace in FCP parlance - does NOT say where the main interface is. It just says that you are using the viewer on a secondary display.
I will give you an easy way to ensure that it starts with the main interface in the display that you want.
This depends on how you are used to start FCP.
My personal preference, since I am a keyboard guy, is to launch applications via Spotlight: press command-space, type Fina, press enter.
The problem, as you are experiencing, is that on a multiple display machine, it may start on the "wrong" display.
Easy fix (but requires a click of the mouse or trackpad).
1) Click anywhere on the menu bar of the display you want FCP to use as "main".
2) Use the Spotlight method to start FCP
3) There is no step 3 😎
There is a misunderstanding here. Your window layout - Workspace in FCP parlance - does NOT say where the main interface is. It just says that you are using the viewer on a secondary display.
I will give you an easy way to ensure that it starts with the main interface in the display that you want.
This depends on how you are used to start FCP.
My personal preference, since I am a keyboard guy, is to launch applications via Spotlight: press command-space, type Fina, press enter.
The problem, as you are experiencing, is that on a multiple display machine, it may start on the "wrong" display.
Easy fix (but requires a click of the mouse or trackpad).
1) Click anywhere on the menu bar of the display you want FCP to use as "main".
2) Use the Spotlight method to start FCP
3) There is no step 3 😎
As an addendum: it may help also if you assign Final Cut Pro a desktop on the desired display by clicking and holding the Dock icon like this:
Thanks guys, launching via spotlight on my second display seems to work, but I had been clicking on the icon in the dock on the laptop screen for the last four years and my workspace windows would come up arranged the right way. I have mentioned this issue in feedback (and a suggestion to better remember my column layout in the browser window) but it doesn't seem like they pay much attention to that.
Lewis2127 wrote:
I'll trust that that works. However, I'm only on Mojave and don't have that option.
That is unexpected... I would have thought this or something similar to have existed for a long time.
Use feedback to report the problem.
I use Launchpad. I have it in the Touch Bar as a replacement for Siri, who is as dumb as two planks.
Replying to myself once again, just to say that the Dock idea works.
See my post above about assigning to a display via the Dock.
I'll trust that that works. However, I'm only on Mojave and don't have that option.
Window layout switched at Startup
