Mavericks - Dock not showing on all screens?

I discovered that moving your mouse to the bottom of the screen that has the dock hidden and then moving the mouse down further consistently brings the Dock to that screen.

Not just placing the cursor all the way down and wait but placing it all the way down and then moving the mouse down further.

Not sure if I'm explaining myself correctly :-)

Cheers!

n

You are a genius! This works for me. Hope others have similar luck.

wessley wrote:

I discovered that moving your mouse to the bottom of the screen that has the dock hidden and then moving the mouse down further consistently brings the Dock to that screen.

Not just placing the cursor all the way down and wait but placing it all the way down and then moving the mouse down further.

Not sure if I'm explaining myself correctly :-)

Cheers!

I have the same problem, i need the docks on both of my screen, it will make my life easier...

When trying to get the dock in your other displays, if it is on the bottom of the screen, move your cursor to the bottom of the screen, and then move it down a little further. throwing and or positioning your cursor at the bottom of the screen is not enough, you have to "push" your cursor into the bottom of the screen.

I'm incredibly annoyed about the fact that there is no option to NOT move the dock along to the active monitor. I have my dock on the left side of my mbp screen since height is more valuable than width, and when I moce over to my external monitor placed to the left of the laptop the dock disapears and is not reachable since it's along the space between the two screens.

This is plain stupid, I want my dock visible at all times so as not to miss notification (email, chat etc)!

Also I would really like not to show the menu bar on my external monitor, it takes up unnecessary real estate from my WMware Fusion that's in fullscreen there...

***** when your first experiece of the upgrade is all negative, and not in matters of taste but as in obvious misses.

TheSmokeMonster wrote:

When trying to get the dock in your other displays, if it is on the bottom of the screen, move your cursor to the bottom of the screen, and then move it down a little further. throwing and or positioning your cursor at the bottom of the screen is not enough, you have to "push" your cursor into the bottom of the screen.

this is not the issue most of the people in here are complaining about. there is an actual bug that will keep the dock stuck to a certain screen. regardless of how you need to "push down" into the bottom of the screen to draw up the dock.

Thank you for that. With the OS X Mavericks update, my dock would not spring up when hidden when using fullscreen applications. The dock does not seem to react as fast. Perhaps because it has new functionality, i.e. the multiple displays? Thanks again.

Simon Gustafson wrote:

I'm incredibly annoyed about the fact that there is no option to NOT move the dock along to the active monitor. I have my dock on the left side of my mbp screen since height is more valuable than width, and when I moce over to my external monitor placed to the left of the laptop the dock disapears and is not reachable since it's along the space between the two screens.

This is plain stupid, I want my dock visible at all times so as not to miss notification (email, chat etc)!

Also I would really like not to show the menu bar on my external monitor, it takes up unnecessary real estate from my WMware Fusion that's in fullscreen there...

***** when your first experiece of the upgrade is all negative, and not in matters of taste but as in obvious misses.

there IS an option. simply go to mission control in your system preferences and uncheck "displays have separate spaces."

You're right, thanks!

Still though, it's rather unintuitive wouldn't you say? The dock and menu bar are really unrelated from the concept of spaces like mission control and their settings are found elsewhere in the system preferences.

Also I wouldn't mind having different spaces for my separate monitors, I just want to lock the dock to one (which everyone with the dock placed on the side will since it won't work on the secondary monitor)...

I've found that being very deliberate with my cursor move, making sure I drag straight down at the bottom of the screen, will make the dock jump screens. If I come in at an angle and park my cursor at the bottom of the screen, the dock won't jump. I don't know if this is how it's supposed to work or not.

Also worked for me, although you really have to insist and not move sideways while draging down. I think they should find another way to make this work though. Or maybe this is only a trackpad issue, don't know about mouse.

There are a lot of posts here. If I understand what Apple has done correctly, there will be a menu bar on each monitor BUT the Dock will only show up on the monitor on which you are working. So it is supposed to jump around depending on which monitor is "active." The menu bar will be dimmed on the screen that is not active. That is the way it is supposed to work.

However, I also have the problem when hooking my MacBook Air up to an Apple LED Cinema Display that the Dock is fixed on the MacBook Air. Only occasionally does it jump to the external monitor. Something is buggy.