Dock keeps moving between monitors

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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.

Another high five to Sputnik. This has been driving me nuts for weeks since installing Mavericks. At least dragging the mouse down on the monitor you want the dock on is the quickest way to remedy this. I agree, this needs to be a preference, or a better way to toggle.

I have found by dargging the the cursor at the bottom of the screen you can make the dock appear on which ever screen the cursor is on ..... I am sure this is meant to what it does ...but it for a while it really confused me ...!!

Here is the steps I followed to fix this problem (it's a feature actually)

[1] Minimize all the open windows

[2] Click on the center part of the menu (top) of the screen in which you want Dock to be appreared (no matter it's first, second or third)

[3] Simply move your cursor to the bottom of that screen

...Dock should appreared in that particular screen.

I hope this helps!

I have the same problem. Drives me nuts because I use a VM Fusion in the second window and when I use the Windows task bar, Mac Dock jumps in the way.

Solution, go to Dock Properties and have it go to left (for me) or right instead of bottom. It locks on the leftmost or rightmost position of both monitors - so it always stays in the same place. This is less annoying than jumping around.

Sputnik really had the best answer. Even if the dock moves seemingly unexpectantly to get it back is quite easy. As he noted, just take your cursor and drive it down (i.e. with a bit of a brisk movement) down to the bottom center of the display where you want it to appear. With a little practice you can make it appear in any of the displays that you have up and running.

Thanks, Sputnik, this was a great help to me.

That helps, it does seem like you need to have the mouse start at a position > 50% of the way up the screen. Although I've found that sometimes it doesn't work if the mouse moves horizontally over a certain threshold.

A real solution from Apple might be to make this behavior separate from the checkbox to allow monitors to have spaces as I really don't want it but I really do want the rest of the features that come with it. Other users have shown that it is a hindrance in some use cases.

At first I thought this was nutty, but then I gave it a try and sorta liked it. Well, this morning it behaved randomly. I switched it off in Mission Control hard booted, I mean power cord out. Tried to log out couldn't do it, never had to. So, I pulled the plug and the behaviour is the same.

BUG

FAIL

Essentially a good feature but it

DOESN'T WORK.

How about a new version of Mavericks with this corrected.

At least on my Mac Pro with three thunderbolt displays, this works: go to preferences>Display>arrangement and just drag the white bar (not the whole blue square) to the monitor you want it to be on. So far it seems to stay put.

Sputnik is spot on, but the key word is "center" of the screen. I've been completelly flumoxed by this one as well and that is the key. If run your mouse to the dead-middle of a monitor (go too far even) it will pull the dock there. If you go down but not in the middle and then move to the middle, maybe 30% of the time that it works. And then, trying to do it correctly will fail - you need to go to another monitor, click on some stuff, maybe even move the dock THERE, then go to the target monitor and it will work. I think the 30% bit is why people see it as random. It's definitely not a clean UI control.

+1, Sputnik.

Looks like a feature for when the dock is on the bottom.

A fix is (and it's a personal preference) to stick your dock to the right or left edge, it'll stay put from then on.

I work with a Cintiq also, and it doesn't leave my main monitor.

That works when your 'primary' monitor is on the left or right of other monitors, but if you're like me where you have the primary monitor in the middle between two secondary monitors it will place the dock on one of the secondary monitors instead of the left or right of the primary monitor.

For some reason, I was able to work around this problem initially, but now that I've updated Mavericks it's returned with no solution.

With "Displays have separate spaces" unchecked on my new work machine last month, I was able to have the menu bar show on all three of my monitors (MacBook, Thunderbolt, Wacom Cintiq) but the dock would stay at the bottom of my Thunderbolt where I wanted it.

Now I either have to get rid of the menu bar on the Cintiq, or suffer with the dock popping up every time I make a long brushstroke or use toolbars on the bottom of the screen. Since I have my Thunderbolt in the center, setting the dock position to left or right either puts it over my Adobe toolbars on the Cintiq, or squashed onto the far side of the laptop.

The best "workaround" I've found is to detach the toolbars from the sides of Photoshop + Illustrator and shorten them so that I never have to use the bottom inch of my Cintiq. =_=;

We need to be able to set the dock and menu bars independently, otherwise, those of us with art desk jobs are losing a lot of productivity.

Thank you, man. You saved my day. I was like so bothered by this feature, until you figured it out. Honestly, I still don't think it looks like a feature. But I just learn to avoid it and "fix" it, since I can reproduce the "feature" every time now.