Thunderbolt Display and MBA Display options

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Thunderbolt Display and MBA Display options

if i make any application ( chrome, spotify etc ) full screen either on MBA display or on the Thunderbolt screen, the other screen goes grey. How can make an application like spotify, chrome full screen on Thunderbolt display but still keep using outlook/mail on the main mba screen ?

Thunderbolt Display-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Nov 9, 2013 5:52 PM

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jason269

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Nov 12, 2013 9:43 AM in response to Fran_21-15-9

Hello, Fran.

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

This is the normal functionality of operating systems Mac OS X 10.8 and earlier. However, we recently released a new operating system for free that will allow the use of multiple displays in full screen mode.

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/#multiple-displays

Hope this helps,

Jason H.

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