Dock keeps moving between monitors

Hey guys,

So apparently, this is an actual feature and not a bug. Its been ******* me off as well as I use 3 monitors, but I read on a different forum how to actually make it appear on a different monitor and all you have to do is actually move your mouse to the center of the screen, and move it all the way down as if you're trying to drive into the bottom of the screen. you'll see it appears on any monitor you do this to (clearly being a feature). I think its stupid and would love to have the option to disable this without losing my separate spaces for each monitor, but I guess this is the Apple way. What can ya do?

Hope this helps.

I have the same setup and the same problem. I agree that it is not related to focus and is almost certainly a bug - it happens randomly, and I can get the dock back to its original location by right-clicking the dock, and setting the position to another value and back again to the original value. (I.e. I don't really change anything, yet the dock jumps back to its original location).

This is a feature of the way Mavericks handles multiple displays. As you move your mouse and focus to different displays, the system menu bar and Dock will appear on that display. To prevent this, go to the Mission Control system preferences and uncheck the "Displays have separate spaces" option.

It's a 100% bug! My dock suddenly appears on monitor #2 and to fix it I change the dock locatin to the left and then to the bottom. It's a BUG Apple.! Plus, I used to use VMWare to remote into my windows work machine and used 2 monitors for the real estate. Now that's gone. "A feature?" Some lame brain fool at Apple came up with that brainstorm. So now I login using windows 8.1 only to RDP into work and have use of my 2 monitors for some real work. BAD, BAD feature! Wise up Apple.

Hm, I feared as much. What a hopelessly stupid idea.

My third monitor is a Cintiq (I.e. a touch screen), and I frequently have the pen along the lower edge during a paint stroke, with the interresting result of dragging dock icons all over the place.

I don't care whether they call it a bug or a feature as long as it goes away 🙂.

I'm also experiencing this issue. Can't seem to pinpoint when / why it actually changes between monitors. The only way I've found to change it back is to go into Dock Preferences change the position toggle to left and then back to bottom. If it's a feature, it's a poor one.

Well, I've just figured out why it does it. If you move the mouse to another window and pull it down to very bottom of the screen and hold it there, the dock moves over. To move it back, move the mouse pointer to the screen you want it on and hold the pointer at the very bottom of the screen.

this is exactly it. the dock movement was always happening randomly, but being able to recreate it like this makes me thing its just a feature so people can quickly lunch dock apps from any monitor (the higher the res of the monitor and the more monitors you have the more work it would basically be to get to the dock).

VERY Helpful, Sputnik. Thank you!

you got it

Im in the same boat with the Wacom Cintiq. If you find a good work-around for this please share on here to help us all out.

Thanks Sputnik Technoligies! This was driving me crazy. I actually restarted a couple times to get it back. Now I know this is a simple feature. 🙂

Thanks for the fix Sputnik! You've stopped the frustration that was eventually going to lead to a fist going through my Thunderbolt Display!