Dock and dual monitors issue

Most of us have now realized that the dock shows up on both mounitors, for OS Maverick. But have you noticed that sometimes it just takes too long to summon the dock from one or the other monitor? In any case your dock, on your primary or actice monitor shows up quicker, where as the on secondary or non active monitor it takes a few seconds sometimes for it to appear.
Having spoken with tech support about this issue, I was told that I simply had to wait. Wait for what?! Well according to the tech support your dock is being transfered to the other monitor. Refusing to believe that it takes that long for the dock to be transferred, I started playing around with settings or anything else that I could think of. To no Avail.
Then Alas, I was working on a project and I could see that my dock was appearing alot quicker and almost on cue everytime no matter what display I was summon it from. But how? When you hover over the 'hot spot' lower part of your desktop, it triggers the summoning of the dock, sometimes it works sometimes it just take longer on the secondary or non active monitor. Here's how I've solved the issue, instead of just hovering over the hotspot, drag your mouse to the bottom of your screen and continue dragging it down. Your dock will appear on demand. (if your monitors are set so that one is physically and configured to be above the other this will not work)
Thanks and make today a good one!
DT

could have something to do with how you are sharing your desktop b/t the laptop and the monitor... try resetting your monitor to "clone" or resetting your home screen to the laptop BEFORE unplugging the external monitor--

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