Q: Dual monitors and fullscreen fiasco, is there a work around?

Re: a solution.   It occured to me one day that Cinch, ($7 App store) was a good alternate solution to Lion's FS for dual monitor work.

I have been using Cinch for years but there was one feature I didn't use much. Cinch lets you easily, with the stab of a mouse, make a Window full screen on either monitor, leaving the other screen untouched. You can also put different full Windows on both monitor if you like. While a full Window is not as good as a full Application, it's a much better trade than than having the 2nd monitor made useless.

Trouble with Cinch is that it shows the window's chrome,  i.e. wastes all that space,  which is the point of full screen (by any 'normal' person's definition).

Bottom line:  Full Screen has been available forever on Windows as the maximise button.  Apple now (incorrectly) redefine this as meaning one application only. 

Good luck to all the tax paying Mountain Lion beta testers.

Hallo - the idea for post-it is one thing, technically possible. But I am using the Full Screen Mode almost every day.

Today, I had Parallels just running on my primary MBP screen, the other application, because more important on the bigger one

But sometimes I switch, so Parallels on secondary larger screen, others on primary.

As said before, I use also Desktops.

Just to avoid misunderstanding, there are for sure room for improvements, but so far my work flow works.

In regards the last message : there is still a maximize button there, it is green, upper left corner. Use it and you have the previous effect - on the screen which you want.

If you use Cinch - as I understand the program description, it helps like other Apps to organizes in a Split-Screen mode different windows. I guess, some will find that good and they need it. They do not mention Full Screen or others

Again, the Apple full screen mode seems to have the logic : focus on one application on one screen. otherwise it is not a focus :-)

I guess, what some of you want is: the Apple Full Screen Mode and the other screen is showing other application which might be needed ? The Full Screen Mode should be either primary or secondary display. Is that what you missed ?

Then might be the automatic arrangement of different application in , lets say, split screen.

Ronald

Even cheaper ($1.99), and in my opinion, better (because it is more flexible), is BetterSnapTool, also on the app store. You can full screen, as well as half/third/quarter screen and app, and many other things. Check it out. Also, search the web for BetterTouchTool, which is free, and includes most of the features of BetterSnapTool, however it is still in beta last I checked.

-Jake

sense I cannot remove myself from this tread and continue to get emails did MT Lion fix this issue?

IF so can we stop posting here?

The reason people are posting here is because they are ****** off that Apple didn't fix it in ML

WHAT THE F$$K THIS IS NOT FIXED IN MOUNTAIN LION?????

Everyone better leave them feed back or this will be overlooked again

I think it's kind of funny people are getting so mad -- I reported over 2 months ago that this wasn't fixed in mountain lion.  My post probably got deleted.

Well, FF 14 now makes the problem worse.  They incorporated native OSX full-screen, instead of their home-grown fullscreen.  So, don't plan on using full-screen Firefox with multiple monitors.  You can't even put a second FF window in the other monitor's screen area.

To all the new people coming in who don't want to read all 4000 pages of this thread, and not liking this behavior on Mountain Lion, please go to this link to see the proposed solution:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/16218117#16218117

And please go to:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

To submit the solution as a feedback suggestion to Apple; please be considerate in your response.

Well I submitted feedback.  Seperate displays really should behave as separate spaces/desktops - it's crazy that this issue is present.  Makes me wonder what kind of testing OSX developers even go through before releasing a new version or feature.

Continuing this on for 10.8 now that the ML forum is open:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4135686

RevChris wrote:

 

Well, FF 14 now makes the problem worse.  They incorporated native OSX full-screen, instead of their home-grown fullscreen.  So, don't plan on using full-screen Firefox with multiple monitors.  You can't even put a second FF window in the other monitor's screen area.

Firefox users need to report this as a bug. At the very least, Firefox needs to make the blanking behaviour user-definable as does Parallels Desktop.

Just installed Mountain Lion, really disappointed. I don't know how they have overlooked multiple fullscreen / monitor solutions. Anyone who defends this current Lion-ML configuration is either ******** or an Apple fanboy. Makese no sense. I am mad. It's stuff like this Apple!! gaaaaah