If external monitor is placed above laptop screen, dock won't appear on external monitor

I've just migrated from PC to Mac and I've found something that drives me crazy. The dock won't appear on my external monitor if the external monitor is placed directly above the MacBook Air built in display. At home. I plug in my external monitor into my MacBook Air, place my laptop on my physical desktop just below my elevated external monitor. My MacBook Air is open and I use its keyboard and its display, but my main display is my external monitor. I configured displays to match the physical arrangement:
Darn: the DOCK REFUSES to appear on the "main screen"!! This drives me crazy -- this did not happen in Windows! The task bar obeyed my "main display" setting.
I can get the dock to appear on the main screen if I tell Mavericks of an arrangement that suits Mavericks -- somewhat side-by-side, as follows:
Now the dock shows up on my external monitor which I'd identified as my main screen before all these shenanigans.
The problem with the workaround is that the mouse does not track correctly between monitors so it's not an acceptable workaround.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to work around this for real?

Try booting your laptop normally, and then plug in the external monitor when the computer has fully logged in (or when it's waiting at the login screen). Does the problem still happen when you do that?

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Arch Linux xorg.conf
# File generated by xorgconfig.
# Copyright 2004 The X.Org Foundation
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
# The X.Org Foundation BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
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# SOFTWARE.
# Except as contained in this notice, the name of The X.Org Foundation shall
# not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
# dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
# The X.Org Foundation.
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# this file.
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# Server flags section.
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# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# Other input device sections
# this is optional and is required only if you
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# Identifier "Mouse2"
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# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "spaceball"
# Driver "magellan"
# Option "Device" "/dev/cua0"
# EndSection
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "spaceball2"
# Driver "spaceorb"
# Option "Device" "/dev/cua0"
# EndSection
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen0"
# Driver "microtouch"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "1412"
# Option "MaxX" "15184"
# Option "MinY" "15372"
# Option "MaxY" "1230"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
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# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen1"
# Driver "elo2300"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "231"
# Option "MaxX" "3868"
# Option "MinY" "3858"
# Option "MaxY" "272"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonThreshold" "17"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
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# Mode 0666
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# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
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# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
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# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
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# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
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# ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
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Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
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# This loads the font modules
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Load "freetype"
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# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# Option "LeftAlt" "Meta"
# Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift"
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# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
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# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# These are the default XKB settings for Xorg
# Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
# Option "XkbLayout" "us"
# Option "XkbVariant" ""
# Option "XkbOptions" ""
# Option "XkbDisable"
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Option    "XkbLayout" "us"
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Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
# the following line.
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.
# Option "Resolution" "256"
# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.
# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"
# Mouse wheel mapping. Default is to map vertical wheel to buttons 4 & 5,
# horizontal wheel to buttons 6 & 7. Change if your mouse has more than
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Option    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
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Section "Monitor"
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# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
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# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 62.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.
# Chipset "generic"
# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.
# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
Identifier "Standard VGA"
Driver "vga"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
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Identifier "* Generic VESA compatible"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
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Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
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Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "* Generic VESA compatible"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
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Depth 8
Modes "1280x800" "800x600" "640x480"
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Depth 16
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SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "800x600" "640x480"
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Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
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Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
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Load "vbe"
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Driver "kbd"
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Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
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Device "ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
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Depth 24
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Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
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Section "DRI"
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H
Try this:
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Have a nice day
Ishaan Ideapad Y560(i3 330m), Hp Elitebook 8460p!(i5-2520M) Hp Pavilion n208tx(i5-4200u)
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Connect laptop to a external monitor with laptop screen off

I need to connect my laptop to an external monitor but i need my laptop screen off.
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mm...
try on a terminal "xrandr"
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That will turn of the laptop display and turn on the monitor....
But I don't know if that command runs on gnome.. if it runs try to download "arandr" gui app of xrandr from yaourt
Last edited by vigohe (2010-12-20 03:36:54)

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Hmmmm,
Many docked users only use and external monitor. For those not sleeping while docked is the typically setting.
there is the Fn F7 or F8, can't tell which to toggle displays. However, there should be a when docked configuration profile. Have you tried Lenovo support on this as to where it is. It should follow those setting each time it senses its docked.
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is it possible that when i connect my external monitor to my macbook pro i can use the external for the timeline and the laptop screen for the previewing?
cheers

I'm trying to do this exact same thing and am coming to the conclusion that it is not possible given my setup. I have a MacBook Pro 2.2 Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a NIVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Graphics Card. I'm running FCS 3 and all media is read from a 1TB Seagate 7200 SATA drive read through a SeriTek 2SM2 PCI card in the Express Slot.
You can easily arrange your monitors to do what you're asking (as outlined above), but the problem is the Graphics Card is not powerful enough to run both monitors and you will experience dropped frames with any HD codecs. I've tried XDCAM, DVCPROHD and ProRes 422 -- all dropped frames immediately. In fact, even if I use the "closed clamshell" mode, so the graphics card is powering ONLY the external monitor, I still get the same dropped frames issue. The only way I can edit or play back without dropped frames is by using NO external monitor whatsoever.
Is this a unique problem for me? Is there a solution to this? Would the new 17 inch i5's with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M (512MB) be able to power an external monitor?
EDIT: And the External Monitor is a Dell 2408WFP connected through the DVI port.
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[Solved] Setting up dual monitor + laptop screen on Alienware M17xR4

Hi everyone,
My apologies in advance if this has been asked before, I was not able to find any relevant information for this anywhere. I have Alienware M17xR4 with nvidia GTX660M graphics card. I also two extra 24" Asus VS248 monitors besides my laptop screen. They are connected via HDMI and DisplayPort (DVI on the monitor) and I want to have all 3 displays working, if that is not possible, then two monitors working side-by-side.
The problem is that I have not been to able to work the two monitors so far, I did at one point managed to make one big screen out of these two monitors but I want a Windows-like behaviour wherein I can drag the two windows between two screens and maximise them on individual monitors. Right now I have completely messed up my display in such a manner that the TTY1 gets stuck on the boot while trying to start the login manager. I can however boot through TTY2 (ALT+F2) and change any configuration.
I have tried deleting xorg.conf and then regenerating it via nvidia-conf but that doesn't help either.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by babbupandey (2015-06-05 05:47:01)

Hello i think i may be able to help with your problem, i had a similar one
I have an alienware m14xr2 and i also tried to do the same but i noticed when using the nvidia card with the nvidia drivers i had a problem, i assume that the external display is connected to the intel card, as it worked perfectly with the intel only driver setup. To fix this issue I use bumblebee, the nvidia optimus alternative for Linux which uses the intel card as primary, allowing me to use both external and internal displays in extended mode, and run what i need on the nvidia card and pull it over with a virtualgl bridge, i even seam to get a performance increase with bumblebee over the regular nvidia drivers running all the time (only when using primus).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee
Here is a link to the bumblebee page i used, though i had problems setting up that i found many alienware users had that can be fixed in the troubleshooting area bellow "[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU: No devices detected"
I noted many alienware uses had this problem in my search.
Also the package arandr is an xrandr front end may help in the initial setup as i had problems using the display config built into cinnamon to do this.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … ny/arandr/
Now hopefully this makes at least dual screen working, i use dual with hdmi, and the vga should work ok for your third screen, but im not sure about the display port, never tried it and i believe it is on the Nvidia card, but there are instructions on the wiki page above you may be able to use about multiple monitors when the output is on the other card that may help, again try the vga first works on mine.
As for fixing your current xorg issues, i also did a thing in my attempts to get a working situation and eventually gave up, in the end reinstalled arch and followed the wiki and it worked, but mabye try removing all of x org and your display environment and re-install as per the bumblebee wiki.
i hope this helps you get multiple monitors, i know how amassing they are to use

How can i get my laptop screen to display on a second monitor after closing the laptop

I have a 13" MacPro, love it, but its display is a little small for how far away i sit at my desk. I have a second 21" monitor that i would like to use for this purpose, but whenever i close the laptop screen it shuts down the signal for the second screen as well. Is there a setting that i am missing to be able to close the laptop and still use my monitor?

Hi AmandaBenton,
The article below will explain how to use an external display with your Macbook Pro.
The "Mirror Displays" option will show whatever you are seeing on your Macbook Pro on your TV screen.
How to use multiple displays with your Mac
Video mirroring
Mirroring displays the same image on each display.
Make sure your additional display is properly connected and powered on.
From the Apple () menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Displays.
Click the Arrangement tab.
Enable (check) "Mirror Displays" in the bottom-left corner.
I hope this information helps ....
Have a great day!
- Judy

Need help placing photo image in laptop screen of a video...

I have footage that is both zooming and panning, and need a photo image to fit within the laptop screen space during the duration of the pan/zoom. Should I use "Track Motion" accompanied with key-framing in 2D? Does this make sense? Is there an easier way to achieve this, or is that the way to go?
Here is a rough take of the clip of which I speak. In reality, we will be placing the same image on both the HDTV and the laptop in the shot. Hopefully, this will make what I have said above a little more clear. Hope you can help. Thanks much.

If you have CS4 then I would recommend using Mocha for AE (a planar tracking software from imagineers system that comes bundled with AE CS4). It's basically designed for the kinds of stuff you described. There are some helpfull tutorials on the imagineer systems's website:
http://www.imagineersystems.com/support/mocha-AE/tutorials/

Multi Monitor messes up laptop screen?

I have a 15" Retina MB Pro, got it when they first came out. Had the display replaced with the Samsung after the ghosting issue. But this happened randomly before that, and now it's every single time.
I have a 24" 1920x1080 external monitor I connect to via HDMI. I also have, on my laptop screen, some icons on the left edge, top edge, and right edge, so I can hit a few things here and there without having to minimize whatever I'm working on at the time if I need to do something else. These are mostly just some folders and text icons, not apps.
But what happens is that when I plug in the external monitor, the icon positions change. And it's not consistent. Sometimes they change so it's like the external monitor is just part of a virtual monitor, and my top row on the laptop moves to the middle of the laptop and extends across the middle of the external display. Sometimes when I plug in the external monitor, my "actual" desktop shrinks up to a small spot on the top left, like some crunched version of my actual desktop. Other times that happens, as well as getting a small silver plane shape from what would be the "dock" on that tiny screen. Now, regardless of what happens, my entire screen on the laptop is still usable, resolution isn't changing, and the entire desktop on the 1920x1080 external monitor is usable - it's just the desktop that gets totally screwed up as far as the icons go. If I unplug the monitor, they revert back to "normal" on the laptop display.
It used to just happen once in a while. Then it started happening more often, and now it's to the point where I may have to unplug and replug the HDMI 70 or 80 times to try to get the desktop to not screw up like this. At this rate I'll wear out the HDMI port in a month or so.
Any suggestions? One of my zillion google searches for this turned up someone who specified a plist file to delete, which I did, but that didn't solve the issue...
If it were at least CONSISTENT on way or another (screwed up across both screens, or always giving me that mini fraction of my latpop desktop on the top left of the retina display) it wouldn't be as bad as this, espeically since sometimes it *DOES* work as expected - I plug my external monitor in, and there's the second desktop waiting for me to drag stuff to it.
No, it's not set to mirror.
Thanks for any ideas, this is driving me absolutely nuts since I waste so much time on it every day. I'm about ready to nuke the laptop and rebuild everything from scratch but that's such a pain, and would just make me think of my windows days when I used to do that far more often than I do now...
MBP is current (10.8.3) wiht all updates, 8GB RAM and quad i7 processer model.

sorry did not completely read your post hehe
try to check the monitors maximum capabilities, apple can output 1920 by 1200
also check for the wide settings as well if the monitor is a wide one.
also, there are some issues with regards to windows running on mac missing drivers is most likely your problem see link of intel http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-022544.htm#native_resolution
mac on the other hand supports the full 1920x1200 output since its their product

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