External Display Order Priority

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External Display Order Priority

I'm using FCP X 10.2.3 on OS X 10.11.3 on a 27 inch iMac Late 2012. i7 3.4, 32 GB RAM, 2GB VRAM GTX 680.

I have two external displays attached to the iMac. The center display is set as the main one in System Preferences.

When using FCP X I can "Show Events On Second Display". Selecting this moves them over to the iMac display. It seems to have some kind of automatic priority selector. Issue is, I really want them on the vertical display. If I try dragging that panel to the vertical display, as soon as I select it it hides, for some reason. Here's what that looks like in action: https://youtu.be/pj3FjcfaXFs

So, the goal is to get the secondary display option to point to the vertical display instead of the iMac WHILE maintaining the center display as the primary display.

I've already tried:

Changing primary display, setting it up, and then changing it back. It resets automatically when you change the primary display.
Unplugging a monitor and setting it up. Once again it resets when the monitor reconnects.
Switching which display plugs into where.
Turned off "Displays have separate Spaces". Didn't make a difference to FCP X after re-login so turned it back on.

None of that worked. Anymore thoughts? Someone mentioned SwitchResX which looks interesting, but I'm not seeing how it could help in this situation.

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Mar 2, 2016 4:39 PM

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Jones Soda Author

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Mar 2, 2016 4:58 PM in response to Jones Soda

Here's the System Preferences arrangement setup:

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den.thed

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Mar 2, 2016 5:18 PM in response to Jones Soda

What are your other Mission Control settings...?

I'm asking because, it looks like you have a Spaces thingy happening on that monitor.

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Jones Soda Author

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Mar 2, 2016 6:07 PM in response to den.thed

Didn't work. Only thing it did was remove the menu bar and dock from my other monitors. Which I don't want. I like the menus available on all monitors.

With these settings the pane defaults back to the iMac screen.

I do have multiple "virtual" desktops, not sure if it matters.

Here's a video showing what happened: https://youtu.be/vCelRHVtIJY

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Jones Soda Author

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Mar 2, 2016 6:20 PM in response to Jones Soda

Tried deleting my extra "virtual" desktops. No change in result.

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den.thed

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Mar 2, 2016 6:49 PM in response to Jones Soda

First I would try unchecking "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" to see if the event panel will stay stuck.

Does the same thing happen if/when you arrange things with the menu bar back on the iMac display....?

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Jones Soda Author

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Mar 2, 2016 7:08 PM in response to den.thed

Already tried unchecking that, but unchecking it made no difference.

Moving the menu bar to the iMac does make the vertical screen the secondary one and the panel goes strait there, but there my main screen is to the right not the center. Also for testing sake, I then tried moving the panel from the vertical screen to the ultra wide screen and it did the same thing, snapping back to the vertical one once I clicked on it.

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den.thed

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Mar 2, 2016 7:42 PM in response to Jones Soda

At this point I encourage you to keep playing around with the setup until you figure out what works best. I also think that you are going to find that some app panels are easier to train than others.

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Jones Soda Author

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Mar 3, 2016 12:24 AM in response to den.thed

Ya, It may take a FCP X update from Apple to make this work.

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