How do I run two full screen applications on separate screens?

Hi Jared,

Connect/turn on the external monitor. Open System Preferences on your MBP > Displays. There should be two windows, one for the external monitor and one for the MBP. Click on the window for the external monitor. Click on the Arrangement tab. Uncheck the box for Mirror Displays. This willallow you to set each display to its own resolution. On the external display, click on the pref window for the external monitor display setting. Click on Display. Set the resolution to what you want. On the MBP's display, click on the pref window for the MBP's display and set the resolution to whatever you want. You'll be in what's called "extended desktop mode." You'll have to move the "pointer" all the way to the edge of one display to get it to go onto the other display. Open whatever you want, and drag it to the extended monitor. Set it to full screen. Open another whatever on the MBP's display and set it to full screen. You should be full screen on both displays.

jared.micah wrote:

My screens are already set up to be extended display. When I drag a window to the second screen and click the full screen button, it moves it over to the main screen and goes full screen there. The second display then changes to the fabric pattern. When I put the window out of full screen mode, it moves it back to the second screen again.

Hmmm, what application are you using?

Same issue here... I have a 24" CInema Display connected to my 24" iMac. Full-screen mode in Safari or iTunes turns my 24" Cinema Display into a frame for a grey piece of felt 😠

Full-screen mode works just fine in Google Chrome... the browser goes full-screen and any windows on my Cinema Display remain displayed and accessible, but I think it did that before I upgraded to Lion.

I just want to run quicktime full screen when I am hooked up to an external projector like I used to in Snowleopard. Can't seem to do it. Quicktime jumps back to the MBP screen when I click full screen.

There has to be a way to do this!!

Yup, same issue here, every app w/ full screen capabilities.

Hi guys did you ever get a resolve for this as I have exactly the same problem. I gave up and just drag to application over and then manually drag it to fill the screen. I know it's not the same as full screen but it's close. It'd be grand to get full screen though. Its the same on all apps but most annoying went watching a video.

I thinks it's Lion problem but then I've never used anything else.

"Full Screen" mode is an abomination carried over from IOS, the land of tiny screens. It is of no use whatsoever once you have a reasonably large screen or multiple screens. Do not use it.

Just expand the windows you want to the size you want. The only thing it does not do is hide the MenuBar on the main display.

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

"Full Screen" mode is an abomination carried over from IOS, the land of tiny screens. It is of no use whatsoever once you have a reasonably large screen or multiple screens. Do not use it.

Well said! Apple have taken a perfectly working implementation of full screen in Snow Leopard and completely broken it. It's like my complete faith in Apple's infalibility has been brought into question...

The problem with that logic is that some movies don't use the 16:9 aspect ratio, so if we simply resize the window, we'd also be looking at the desktop background as well.

Then change the desktop background to something that will not interfere with your movie watching, such as all black or a very subtle picture.

Why would I inconvenience myself over a paid operating system that supposed to be the most advanced in the world? For the $50 I've spent on OS X in the last year, I expect the operating system to work for my needs.

Unfortunetly, it is not possible yet but in the future it will be.

So it's not even possible in mountain lion?