As many others with multiple displays have reported, apps in full screen mode only make use of the primary monitor while in full screen mode. All other secondary monitors will be grey and rendered useless. Is there a work around or will there be an update to allow full advantage of having dual/multiple monitors when in full screen mode?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), iMac 21.5" 2.5Ghz 12GB Ram
Hi, I have the same problem, I hope Apple will say something about. Do you have the second screen as an extension or what?
Cheers.
Yes I have a 22" HP Monitor set up as an extension. The two make a great team when NOT using full screen mode 😟, at least until the issue is addressed.
agreed! either apple can make this a natively supported thing or face the music when someone makes it in the app store and charges moneys, making millions from it... wait but then apple would be making millions too.... 😮 heeeyy!...
yes I do think this is a crazy waste of a monitor ! You should at least be able to put another full screen app there !
totally useless as apple intended!!! so they say!
but I call it a BUG, some people (the watchers aka fake users) in this forum doesn't like that..!!!
This issue has ruined my studio.. I've been on the phone with Apple support too many times to learn it is IMPOSSIBLE to solve this issue and Apple is showing no sign of returning this basic function.
I add my support — this needs to be fixed. I think that when you have multiple-monitors that spaces should not be linked unless the user wants to (for example they might have two apps they always want to use at the same time).
<edit> Also, an app should be able to declare if it wants to use multiple monitors when it goes fullscreen — the default (for the deprecated API) should be that it does not need multiple monitors.
Message was edited by: paulsorensen
Is my additional monitor useless in full screen mode?
