Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
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Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
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Re: Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
#2I can recommend Moom as a window manager for multiple displays.
https://manytricks.com/moom
Especially, if your setup changes often, you can have various presets to make life easier
Re: Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
#3I can't stand multiple displays, mac or not, they just distract me. I want one big display, something like 27" or 32". To each their own.
Re: Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
#4I can't stand multiple displays, mac or not, they just distract me. I want one big display, something like 27" or 32". To each their own.
> I can't stand multiple displays, mac or not, they just distract me. I want one big display, something like 27" or 32". To each their own.
Me too. The extra wide ones are nice. I've got one gigantic 32" curved monitor, and use it with multiple workspaces.
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#5The XDR is easily one of the best monitors on the market for coding if you value high resolution. I've never had issues with bloom on it either, seems more relevant for stress tests than daily usage.
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#6100% agree. It absolutely sucks. It sometimes amazes me across all ability apple has that the experience is so atricously obnoxious to try to use more than one monitor with macos. All the points in the article are true and it's a frustrating experience anytime i try it.
Not to mention that macos renders fonts like crap on external displays.
Re: Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
#7Most of the problems of the author would be solved by installing BetterDisplay: https://betterdisplay.pro/
Re: Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
#8I'd been using 2 external displays with my macbook pro for the past few years. The most annoying thing for me was waking the mac from sleep and getting it to detect the two of them. Once they were both detected I honestly thought the experience was OK. But the dance I needed to do every time to detect was so frustrating that I recently replaced the two of them DELL's new 40 inch 5K ultra wide: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-40-curved-wu.... I'm very happy with it. For my (slightly aging) eyes the pixel density is great, there's lots of space, and the waking from sleep detection issue is finally gone.
Re: Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
#9I don't think the issues of multi display really are only due the OS, my personal experience on multiple platform is that is suck regardless of whatever one thinks the solution would be. There are insolvable constraints implied by multi display:
- Screen going on and off is an asynchronous mechanism that the OS has to treat by an event driven implementation.
- All states must be valid (all graphical stuff must be put on display), as screen can go on and off at any time, for expected and unexpected events
- Those synchronous event must converge to an expected state for the user, whatever the final state is
- App developers mostly ignore those problems giving responsibility to the OS to deal with it. But sometimes they don't, sometimes ignoring the services provided by the OS to would help achieve predictable consensus, invalidating any assumption the OS could make.
- App windows positions state restoration have no definitive logic when there are moved and place across different dispositions, even it's manually by the other or programmatically by the OS.
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#10For me it's okay. I've noticed only a glitch with menu bar apps (tray icons?) that sometimes I hit them on one monitor and menu appears on another, but it's been recently introduced and I hope will be fixed.
Best thing there is on Mac is one app per desktop mode (maximise gives new desktop to the app) and a gesture to switch them