Adobe Photoshop CC dual screen clipping mask bug?

Hi, it's a little hard to explain the situation, but I'll try my best.
So here's my scenerio, I have 2 monitors. I’m currently working on the file on monitor 2. Having the layer panel on monitor 1, I'm tryiing to create a clipping mask by holding down the option button on monitor 1's layer panel.
It will jump to the file on monitor 1 and stays on that monitor unless I move the layer panel to monitor 2. Every other function seems to work fine so far, but this one really bothers me a lot.
Thanks for your help.

I have problems with the alt/option key as well. I have two monitors and also use the left one as my dominant scree. I'm running Photoshop CC on Mavericks OS. I think this only happens when I have more than one document open in Photoshop.
Whenever I try to alt+click to create clipping masks in the layers panel, or alt+drag to quickly duplicate layers/layer-effects/masks/etc, instead of executing the task, Photoshop jumps focus to another open document, pulling it up on the right (i.e., secondary) monitor. I have to click back to my original document and do manually do everything with right clicks and menus. A relatively small glitch but huge annoyance.

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