IMac, Multiple Monitors & Spaces

I have 2 monitors connected to my new iMac. I arrange various setups using Spaces on all 3 monitors. When the iMac comes out of sleep mode, all of the panels are always pulled into the iMac monitor (e.g. the other monitors are empty) in each Space. How do I get it to stay "as is" after it comes out of sleep mode?

Stephen, it has been almost a month since your post and I was hoping to learn something new about our type iMac monitors.
I have checked with AppleCare and several on-line discussions and it seems the only thing that can be added is a "mirror" monitor VGA, which may be what you want. There is apparently no way to increase the "real estate" like on a Windows PC or the new iMacs, Macbooks and Pros.
Hope this helps a little to know others are trying, too.
Ed

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Imac multiple monitors

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I have a weird startup problem on my iMac 27". It boots past the apple logo and blue screen but then I getaway white screen with random grey checkers all over the place!
I had issues with my snow leopard install which we're fixed after a fcsk command.
For some annoying reason I can't boot to a different USB or flash drive as I don't get past the mac logo!
Any help would be appreciated

Sorry nothing to do with multiple monitors!! My 1st post, don't know where that came from!

IMac multiple monitors VGA Switch

Hi.
I have an iMac 20" early January 2006, a 32inch Samsung LCD TV with PC Input and a 17 inch external monitor.
I wish to use both the TV and external monitor as a secondary monitor for my iMac. Obviously not at the same time.
Would I be able to use a VGA Switch Box to plug both the TV and external monitor into, with the other connection going to the iMac. This was I would be able to choose which Monitor to use?
I think these Switch Boxes are usually used for plugging in devices such as Xbox 360, with the main connection going to the monitor. Basically, PC and Xbox, with the main going to the TV. So basically the question is, can I plug the iMac into the main connection, with the other two monitors from the other two, allowing me to choose which is active?
Here is the product:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B000J249JC/sr=8-1/qid=1213461171/ref=d pimage0?ie=UTF8&n=560798&s=electronics&qid=1213461171&sr=8-1
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Stephen, it has been almost a month since your post and I was hoping to learn something new about our type iMac monitors.
I have checked with AppleCare and several on-line discussions and it seems the only thing that can be added is a "mirror" monitor VGA, which may be what you want. There is apparently no way to increase the "real estate" like on a Windows PC or the new iMacs, Macbooks and Pros.
Hope this helps a little to know others are trying, too.
Ed

Hi everyone, I have just purchased a new iMac 27. Is this device able to support a multiple monitor set-up (additional two screens)? If so what do I need and are there any draw backs?

Hi everyone,
I have just purchased a new iMac 27. Is this device able to support multiple monitor set-up (an additional two screens)? I am not a gamer, so require the set-up for 'office suite' type work and video viewing. if the set-up is possible, what would I need, is it pretty straight forward and are there any draw backs?
Thank you.

I just purchased the same imac. I connected the other displays using a thunderbolt to dvi adapter and it works fine.

Mission Control useless when using multiple monitors

Background:
From my iMac I'm watching NetFlix on a 2nd TV/Monitor. The movie is playing.... On my iMac I switch to another space. Bam! The movie window on the other monitor is gone.
Conclusion:
Using Mission Control and changing "spaces" does so on all attached monitors. This is not good.
Need:
There needs to be pref in "monitors" control panel to "exlude monitor from Mission Control" functions.
Frustration:
Grrrrrrrrrrr! No more "Mission Control" as long as I'm using more than one monitor.
What say Ye?

Yes, mission control is a completely abomination on multiple monitors... I use a 4 screen setup, 1 of them is a 140 projector for movies... so i definitely understand what you mean about the movie issue.... MC isvery very limited in what could potential be a step up from Spaces... instead is a step backword...
1. no way to lock monitors (such as you are talking about with watching a movie)
2. no way to move windows from one desktop to another... Spaces was great for organization... MC is a very dumbed down version.
3. Spaces showed all "desktops montitor groups together" where the way MC splits them seems unnatural and odd to me... makes sense on single monitor, but horrible on multi monitors
4. Full screen apps are worthless with multiple monitors... it should give me the option to do full screen app on EACH monitor... this would definitely ogranization.

How to set up multiple monitors

I got a 27" 3.1 gz Imac for Christmas. I need to run multiple monitors on it.
#1 How many monitors will it support?
#2 How do I hook them up to the Imac?
#3 What hardware do I need in order to do this?
Phillip

This link is talking about using the Imac as a display for another computer. So basically, this article is telling me how I can use my Imac as a display monitor. That is not what I am trying to do.
I want to use multiple monitors on this Imac.
Phillip

Video & multiple monitors

I have a 2nd monitor next to my iMac. I always keep my iTunes there. Until I upgraded to Snow Leopard, whenever I played a video podcast, it would open on that monitor.
Now when I play my video podcast, the video window opens on my main screen. If I drag it over and then press the green button, it returns to the first menu. I need to push the green button to get it small, then move it to my second monitor, then press the green button to get it big again on that monitor.
This did not happen with Leopard.

Hi,
As HiLogics says, it will work with video card with more than one DVI ports
Watch set of videos here to experience the fix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkbaXkMQrIM
To Configure Dual Monitor , please look at this link:
http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Up-Dual-Monitors
Setup 3 monitors:
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1839185/set-triple-monitors.html
Hope this will give you some idea to setup multiple monitors with same image.
Binu Kumar - MCP, MCITP, MCTS , MBA - IT , Director Aarbin Technology Pvt Ltd - Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

Mavericks with Multiple Monitors?

I keep my tool pallets arranged on my second monitor. Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator all lost my workspace settings whenever the monitors go to sleep. I can restore everything by chooseing Reset Workspace, but this is getting real old. Usually after waking up the monitors, the palettes either all show up in my main monitor or almost completely off screen on my second monitor?
Am I the only one having this problem?
Only other thing I have noticed wierd in CC since moving to Mavericks several weeks ago is that Photoshop sometimes switches to the Color-Wheel cursor (but not spinning) at times regardless of which tool is selected - eventually it will switch back, but have not identified what causes it to restore itself.

Fwiw, I think this is expected behavior. Aperture is set to use multiple monitors in the same (OS determined) "Space". In Mountain Lion, you could not show two spaces at the same time. In Mavericks you can assign a monitor to a space (this is the default). But if you want an app to use both monitors, you have to turn off this feature.
As I see it (actually, I don't -- I haven't upgraded to the big wave), the hierarchy was:
Space(s)
Monitors (all in same Space at any given time)
Apps
and now it is (by default):
Monitor(s)
Space(s) (one per monitor)
Apps.
What you are asking is to have each Monitor display a Space, and have an app (Aperture) run in two Spaces at the same time. That might be asking too much.

XFCE window buttons (tasklist) and multiple monitors

I have dual monitors and each has their own xfce panel with its own set of window buttons. The window buttons have an option to display windows from all monitors, which I don't want, so I deselected it. The only problem is both of the window buttons display the window buttons from the first monitor and not the second. How can I rectify this.

Hi, Rob, Andrew Wolfe here, now working at Interactive Data Corporation in Bedford MA.
I filed some bugs or ERs on this some months ago from Oracle. With very large or multiple monitors, there is a fundamental UI problem with the Microsoft-originated "Multiple-Document Interface" model in which an application's document windows are all enclosed within a main backdrop window.
As a longtime Mac user I have always been amazed that most Windows users work with a single document maximized in a single application window that is maximized over the whole screen. That is, Windows users actually don't use windowing; they use something more like screen swapping. JDeveloper (who knows maybe it's Swing too) buys into this big time by orienting the entire UI around the main JDeveloper window. The tabs and tab groups don't help this at all -- especially given that they always try to dock on you and maximize.
Now Windows UIs have alway squandered screen space -- I'm sorry, does everything really have to have three levels of bulky tool bars? -- and so when displays were smaller (800x600 or less) this way of working made sense. In fact, Windows wastes enough space to exhaust a 1024x768 monitor on a single window.
But when you get any larger than 1024x768, or when you add an additional monitor, that background MDI window is a complete waste, and document windows/tab groups docking and maximizing does not good whatever.
PLEASE allow JDeveloper to run without this backdrop window. Let users move and size tab groups however they like. Preferably this would be a user preference, so I don't have to be CTRL-dragging all the time.
Best,
Andrew

Before I updated today to Lion OS, my multiple monitors worked fine. Now my macbook will not detect them. Is there a solution for this?

I've been running multiple monitors for over a year on my Macbook. Updated today to Lion OSx and well Steve, it didn't just work. My macbook will not detect my three external monitors, and after scouring the last hour on Google of how to remedy this and trying the basic suggestions of restarting, unplugging, replugging, to no avail. Anyone else have a similar problem since they've upgraded to Lion OSx?

karl219 wrote:
1-Time machine seems to be coming up often in the discussions.If my backup is on my external hard drive, why would space be taken up on my macbook hard drive?
Read the first extract for the definition of backup snapshots and how they are handled by the OS.
2-Shoud I delete older backups? If for example, all I need from Time Machine is the latest backup done today, can I get rid of the 2+ yeras of backups, or do they not take up that much space?
No. Time Machine should be on a separate HDD and will take care of deleting backups when necessary on that drive.
3-Back to the issue, considering I don't have access to a an apple store for the next few months, what is my best plan of action?
I would consider installing a larger internal HDD. Capacities to 1 TB are now available.
4-I am considering buying a new macbook 15inch, and get more space, however, I'm scared that the same problem will happen again. Is this common on all macs? Will using Time Machine to "Restore" my backups bring along the issues as well?
All Macs using Time Machine will experience the same conditions. The problem is that many users do not under stand what 'Other' is and that leads to confusion. There are many essential OS files in that category that should not be touched as well as some user files. The issue is not to reduce 'Other' as such, but reduce the total amount of data on the HDD if space is becoming a premium.
Please read these two extracts:
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
Ciao.

Disable Multiple temp space in OEM 12C

Hi,
I've centralized OEM 12C for monitoring. I want to disable the monitoring of multiple temp space.
i've disabled default temporary tablespace and undo tablespace of the test database in OEM 12c. But it is not covering for multiple temporary tablespaces.
Is it possible for disable multiple temp space? any other way?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Robin

Robin,
You can do a "Create Like" on the DISABLE TABLESPACE USED (%) ALERTS FOR UNDO AND TEMP TABLESPACES job and modify the sql listed below, which is used for the cursor, to something that will work for your temporary tablespaces.
select tablespace_name from dba_tablespaces where CONTENTS IN ('UNDO', 'TEMPORARY');
Regards,
- Loc

Windows 8 on multiple monitors

Is there any way to make the windows 8 start screen STAY active on one of the monitors while working on the others? If not the start screen is just a horrible waste of space and time for me and countless other users who will have this same issue.
Also is there a way to make the start screen boot onto a monitor that is not my main? This needs to be implemented as it is an annoyance every time I boot up my computer.
I know this is an issue for many users already and I think this is a very needed addition to make any kind of use of the windows 8 start screen with multiple monitors.
Thanks for your time.

Actually, I do agree with that. I've adopted Windows 8.1 for use at my software company because I believe it has enough merit to warrant upgrading. But I did it only after having spent a LOT of effort to determine that it A) does everything
we need for an engineering workstation and is stable and B) can be augmented to be pretty much as pleasant and productive to use as Windows 7 was
on the desktop. Of course this keeps us "current", so that we keep up with security and device driver development.
My broad point above, which Bob refuted in the details, was that the Win32 interface isn't much different at all than from within Windows 7. We kind of expected Microsoft to further their work on all fronts - making the "legacy desktop" side
actually better AND implementing the new Metro/Modern side - as well as improving the kernel under the covers. Instead, Microsoft seems to have thrown ALL its attention to Metro/Modern, while all but neglecting the kernel and actually deleting
things from the desktop interface. This has folks understandably irritated. Icing that cake is the fact that the Metro/Modern interface has been pretty much a moving target, because clearly Microsoft didn't think through the design of everything
it needed to be before deciding to use it as a basket for all their eggs. They STILL haven't quite figured out how closing apps figures into it all.
So now they appear to be backsliding, and the market has responded - quite coldly.
But, as usual, the developers of the world, also feeling the loss of functionality, have already come through with their products - many of them free - to augment Windows.
The one thing that has me quite concerned is that there are parts of Windows now quite clearly being neglected. Backup is a good example. More and more warning and error messages are appearing in the event logs indicating Windows likes its own
backup facilities less and less. At some point it's going to just stop working. Bob seems to tout flexibility, but actually useful features being just
lost is benefiting only those who want to "drive the market" (to somewhere
else - presumably to power just toys), and not serious computer users. Where does that leave us? Looking for a completely different approach.
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
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Using a 27" iMac as Monitor for PC

I am building a PC for Network Attached Storage (NAS) using FreeNAS:
http://www.freenas.org/
Once it's all set up I'll just use the web/network interface to manage it. But, as I assemble the PC I'll probably need a monitor to make changes to the BIOS settings.
I'm wondering whether I can use my iMac (iMac11,3) as a makeshift monitor for the PC. Apparently it's possible to do this if the PC has a Mini DisplayPort.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924
My PC has the followoing video ports:
- VGA
- DVI
- HDMI
Can anyone tell me whether I can use my iMac as monitor to a PC with one of these ports?
If so, can anyone recommend a cable to do so? For example, this Mini DisplayPort <-> HDMI cable says it won't work for my purposes:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802 &p_id=5311&seq=1&format=2
"This device is not Bidirectional. It can only connect a Mini-DisplayPort source to an HDMI® display. It will not work in reverse."
I want to display my PC's VGA, HDMI, or DVI as the source to my iMac's Mini-DisplayPort, not the other way around.
Thank you for your help.
- nello

But that one doesn't support the 27" screen, you need Dual-Link DVI if it's going to work at all...
Note: This product supports single-link DVI. Dual-link DVI and the Apple 27" Cinema Display are supported by the GTV-DVIDL-2-MDP.
Which is even more money...
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=9898

Can you have multiple users working off the same Mac pro at the same time with multiple monitors but doing different things?

I'm buying desktops for a start up company and was wondering if I could purchase a single Mac Pro and run multiple monitors to allow multiple users to work on the computer at the same time. These users would be doing different tasks but I would hope to accomplish that on a single desktop. I know that screen sharing is possible but with only one user controlling both of the screens. Thanks in advance, sorry for my apple ignorance!

A lot of companies are buying or leasing laptops to be used at the office by day, and carried home at night.
Some companies are doing "Bring your own device". Bring a device to receive email -- computer/smartphone/tablet you already have, or have an allowance to buy one for your use.
If Capital is short (and when is it not) leasing computers, to be turned in a few years, can be a huge savings because the cost is expensed as incurred. The alternative is laying out cash today, but not being able to expense the cost this year. Instead, the computer expense must be recovered over their useful life (often five years) through depreciation.

You cannot shadow a session with multiple monitors enabled in Windows Server 2008 R2

Searching through the forums (and according to KB2484290) it appears that there is no solution to this problem. We are rolling out thin clients that are using dual monitors exclusively and we were very surprised to find out that we couldn't shadow
sessions with dual monitors (which to us means that we can't shadow ANY sessions). This now completely changes our approach to managing these devices.
We are running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Remote Desktop Services installed. The thin clients are running Windows Embedded Standard 7 with the latest updates / RDP client. All steps have been followed to ensure that the apropriate settings and
permissions have been set up to allow access into the session.
We tested by unchecking the RDP setting “use all my monitors for the remote session”, with that setting disabled shadowing worked
Questions:
1. KB2484290 is from Dec 2010 - It's now April 2012, is there a workaround / hotfix for this issue that will allow us to shadow sessions using the native Microsoft tools?
2. Are there any recommended alternatives (software)? Free/Paid - doesn't matter we just need something that will work. I'm sure there are a few options out there but I am looking for suggestions for what people have used in the past that worked
best for them to help us narrow down the choices.

Hi,
In my experience, so far, the workaround is Remote Assistance, Remote Assistance supports multiple monitors, and is the presently recommended solution if you need this functionality. Remote Assistance is a Windows Server Feature that must be explicitly installed
on Windows Server 2008 R2; it is already installed with the client versions of the operating system.
More information:
Remote Assistance Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753881.aspx
Remote Assistance and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows Server 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770456(v=ws.10).aspx
As far as I know, there are some third-party tools can be used as the solution, such as Teamviewer, ISL Online, etc.
Please Note: The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. We make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding
these products' performance or reliability.
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