Weekend of Leopard: Spaces on dual monitors
I am used to working with dual monitors. My setup is, one screen 1440 x 900 resolution (my PowerBook screen) and an extra screen 1280 x 1024 (just some CRT monitor I took). You could be blogging / working on one screen and run a movie on the other, not that it’s what I do, I’m just saying I could do that if I want to.
Spaces lets you have extra desktops space. If on one screen you will have extra four desktop spaces (if you set the rows and columns to two) does two screen give you eight desktop space? Short answer is yes.
Four working spaces where you could switch to one and another. With dual monitors setup, when you switch spaces, both of your screen changes. Which is just the way I wanted it to work. Try it out.
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By default, spaces switches the screen on both monitors. However, if you’re watching a movie, or reading a paper on one monitor, and you want to switch spaces on the other monitor, you lose the view. I’d like to have the ability to exclude the external monitor from spaces
Now that might be a problem. There is no setting for that,… yet?
Also keeping your messaging and chat on secondary monitor with dual monitor setup would be very nice. Now I loose contact with people when I switch the spaces.
I’m not working with multiple monitors, so forgive me if I’m way off on this, but couldn’t you set up your chat or video using “Application Assignments” in the Spaces control panel to stay pinned to “every space”. I use that with dvd player to keep the movie I’m watching on the same place on screen no matter which space I’m on.
I agree with Hank, having spaces across both monitors is not always desired. I expected an option in display prefs along this lines of “exclude from spaces”. The other alternative ( I use in Linux ) is to create an omnipresent window, meaning that the window remains on screen regardless of which desktop ( space ) you are viewing.
@John K: Tnx, that’s exactly what I was looking for for my vlc-player.
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