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#1 2009-11-01 6:41 pm
- ephemeron
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- Registered: 2003-06-23
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Can I change the way Spaces works with multiple monitors?
I love Spaces to an extent I cannot explain or justify, except perhaps that it appeals to some obsessive-compulsive aspect of my personality. Before Leopard, I used to hide applications when I switched to another one. These days, I usually have Mail in one virtual desktop, iTunes in another, Firefox in a third, and Word in a fourth.
After many months of happy Ctrl-arrowing around, I decided to splurge on an external monitor for my MBP, and discovered something about Spaces that I don't like. I wish I could make the second display ignore Spaces and keep showing the same windows, regardless of which virtual desktop the main display is showing. (Better yet would be an option to have the main and second displays show two different Spaces, but I don't know how the interface for that would work.)
Is there a way to keep, say, Mail always on display #2 while I Ctrl-arrow around with wild abandon on display #1? Or am I asking for just a little too much?
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#2 2009-11-18 7:48 am
- mahakali
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- Registered: 2002-11-06
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Re: Can I change the way Spaces works with multiple monitors?
Try Afloat. It can keep showing a window regardless which on which space you are. But it only work with Cocoa apps. Mail is Cocoa. iTunes, Ff, and Word aren't.
You can try Camino, a Cocoa browser with Gecko rendering engine like Ff.
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