Thinking of a 2nd display

if i put a 2nd display do they have to be next to each-other (left, right) or can i set them top and bottom and drag file down and up.

I currently have two displays hooked up, and yes, if you can put one of the displays above the other, there is a setting in System Preferences/Displays where you can drag the screen above the other. You can also change which screen is the main one.

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PB thinks 2nd display is hooked up when not

I hook up a 2nd monitor at work to hold my Adobe palettes. However, when I use the PB at home without the 2nd monitor, the computer reads that all of the palettes are open while they are not visible.
I've checked my system preferences to detect a 2nd monitor but it doesn't detect it. Please help as I am unable to complete my work without the 2nd hookup.
One other problem, I've lost the 2nd display in Hurricane Katrina so purchasing another right now is out of the question. Thanks!!

Did you try that while your Adobe application was open? If no, try that.
Next, with it open, try going into display preferences. (You've tried detect displays already, so...) Change the resolution to something smaller, and then back again. - this may force the window into the LCD.
Just a thought, but is your Adobe app. up to date for 10.4 Tiger?

I can't seem to turn off my 2nd display (with no adapter plugged in)

Been looking on the internets for ages about this and not got anywhere, so did a completely fresh install last night.
The problem is that the DVI (2nd display connection) thinks that I have a VGA display connected (i.e. the 2nd display) when I plug in the DVI-VGA adapter to use with a TV that works fine. The 2nd display resets to align itself to the TV connected.
When I disconnect the adapter the Mac resets it display. Back to having this phantom display connected.
I've plugged in the DVI-VGA adapter as well and then carefully removed that and sameroblem.
Having done a fresh install that would mean it's not a software issue, so it has to be a hardware one? Something with the actual connection? Does anyone know of any potential problems as to why this would happen?
I've tried some compressed air. (I've lost the straw so it was straight from the can, spray paint style)
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2nd display disappears on switching focus to another application

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I'm running LR5 on Windows. I've got the grid view on my primary display and a second display showing the loupe view.
If the focus moves to another application (i.e. a small notepad window on the primary display) then I can still see LR with its grid view in the background behind notepad on the primary display however the loupe view on the second display disappears and I can see the desktop.
Is it possible to configure LR not to automatically hide the 2nd display when the input foucs moves to a different wiindow? I'd like to be able to continue displaying the image on the 2nd display while I'm doing something else on the primary display.
I've not been able to check but I've a feeling this is new behaviour in 5, I don't think 3 or 4 did this.
Many thanks in advance for your time/help! :-)

No, sorry. I've just checked LR3 for you, and the behaviour's the same.

20 inch 2.4Ghz iMac with 2nd Display

Is there anyone out there using a 20 or 24 inch 2.4Ghz iMac with a 2nd Display with Aperture?
I'm interested to know if Aperture 2 will perform adequately, or whether the demanding graphics requirements of Aperture will be over-extending the iMac graphics card with a second display.
My dilemma is that my G5 with Radeon 9600 graphics doesn't really cut the mustard, and the display of my 20 inch iMac isn't suitable for critical image editing applications due to the graduation in screen brightness from top to bottom; so until I can justify the move to a Mac Pro, my options are either getting the (increasingly hard to get) x800 XT card for the G5, or (and maybe the better option?) a second display for the iMac.
Many thanks in advance!
Forrest Smyth

Thanks Mark - yes I have an iMac as well as a G5 with AGP graphics and the 9600 card, so it's a toss up between buying a second display for the iMac, or a x800 XT card for the G5. My iMac also has 4Gb of ram compared to the G5's 3Gb.
My thinking is that by going the iMac with a second display route, I will have the advantage of two displays for not a lot more than the cost of an x800 XT card (if I can find one), in a system that is [possibly] snappier running Aperture. The fly in the ointment could be the extra overhead of a second display on the iMac - so I'm hoping someone who is running Aperture with dual displays on an iMac might read this and provide some feedback.
Forrest

Imac [plus 2nd display - can you work with one display rotated 90 degrees?

I'm thinking of getting a Dell Ultrasharp 24" monitor to use as a 2nd screen from my iMac 20". The Dell screen seems to rotate 90 degrees so you can view it landscape or portrait. If you're working with 2 displays functioning as one giant desktop, can you rotate the 2nd display 90 degrees, and still use the 2 monitors as a giant desktop?
Any advice much appreciated - thank you!

Leopard has a built-in feature for rotating the display. It's in System Preferences Displays pane. You can select to rotate the image 90, 180, or 270 degrees. It even works for my massive 21-inch CRT that I use with my iMac as the extended desktop, although it would be very difficult to physically use that monitor in portrait orientation.
So what you are describing should work.

How to get my 2nd display showing window it was displaying before re-plugin

When at my desktop, I work with both my notebook display and another one.
When I unplug the 2nd display (eg: to take my notebook to a meeting) and later plug in it back, I have to drag the windows from notebook display to 2nd display again.
Do you know an option I should set so windows position are remembered and set again ? It would be very very useful for me !!
Or should I report a request for enhancement ?...
Thanks a lot
Best regards

I think the problem comes when you remove the second display, you shrink the extended desktop back to its one-display size. I expect that is similar to what would happen if you changed the resolution on one display alone to something really small, like 640 by 480.
The Mac OS does not want to leave windows in an area that is off the desktop, because they would be completely inaccessible. So it moves them back to the nearest edge of the redefined desktop. I think this is the same phenomenon that leaves the OS 9 Trash can floating in mid screen (rather than near the bottom right) after a screen resolution change.
This sounds like a classic unsolved problem.

MacBook 2nd display (mini-DVI-DVI (D)- VGA)?

I am trying to hook up a second display to my MacBook. The problem is that I don't have a mini-DVI to VGA adapter, but I have a mini-DVI to DVI, and a DVI to VGA adapters. So I connected my Apple mini-DVI to DVI, to my DVI to VGA, and then to my 2nd display (NEC LCD1560NX). The notebook's image flips as i normally connect a second display, it auto-detects the 2nd screen and displays its correct name, but I do not get an image on my second display. It set to the right resolution and frequency.
Any suggestions?

go to system preferences -> display-> and mirror the displays, it should work on the second display, but the cons on the macbook is to work on the first display, the built in card may not support the second one, if thats the case i'm sorry i can't help it. you can also try to get a DVI/VGA splitter and see if that work, it works on standard integrated intel VGA models. good luck!

2nd Display & iMac w/ 2 Different Sets of Content from Same iMac

Can I do this? (How can I do this?) I'd like to connect a second display to my iMac and use the iMac to generate content (like live feeds or video content from CNN.com) to play on the second display while I "work" on the iMac and its screen. Thus, each display have its own content--but the content is generated by the one iMac. Could I use a HD tv as the second display?
Thanks for your guidance.
Bill

Depends on the iMac, but some of them do support this.
Look yours up at http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/index-imac.html and look for the section about displays and 2nd display support under your model.
With the second display connected to the appropriate port, you use your Displays System Preferences to configure them. If you choose "mirror" both displays show the same thing. If you choose to not mirror, you can have an "extended desktop where you can place different windows on different monitors and do exactly what you want to do. AN HD TV might be usable but you have to look up what your iMac can handle in terms of pixels and resolution and compare that to your HD TV specs. You can certainly buy inexpensive monitors to use if your HD TV is compatible.

Connecting a 2nd display

HI,
I have a Mac Pro, circa Dec 07 (therefore no mini display port) and currently use a 23" cinema display. I want to attach another identical display and assume I can do this via the other (spare) DVI port at the back of the Mac?
However, my main monitor has the firewire and USB cables plugged into the tower which come cabled along with the DVI cable, but when connecting the 2nd display can I just connect the DVI cable into the Mac Pro and not bother with the firewire and USB cable which are bound with it?
Obviously I understand that using the firewire and USB cable from the first display increases my available ports (at the rear of the first display)... but do I really need to connect those with the 2nd display, because I'm running out of ports at the back of the Mac!
Hope that makes sense...
Thanks,
Mark

One thing that's occured to me, somebody might know...
I calibrate my main monitor, so when the second display is either being mirrored, or just an extension of the desktop, I guess the existing calibration is sufficient as the main display calls the shots?
Or am I wrong, should both be calibrated as separate displays prior to using them together?
Thanks to anybody who can help...
Mark

2nd display not as bright as first display

I have 2 facory video cards installed. They're the same (ATI 5770) each have mini ports and aldo DVI.
When I boot up each day at work, the second display won't go to full brightness. USBs are both plugged in and I do get the brightness control levers on the preferences for both displays. However, the 2nd display (at 100%) is just not as bright as the primary display. Both are the same 27" displays; each on their own dedicated video cards. I would say it is about 20% less bright.
Sometimes if I re-boot or reset SMC and monkey with it, I can get it to boot at 100% brightness but lately it's choosing on it's own to be dimmer. Switching USB ports didn't seem to have any effect. I am assuming it's a hardware issue bc I have reset PRAM, SMC, Disk Repair, trashing preferences, and so I'm a little bummed this expensive 27" LED display can't guage it's full brightness.
Thanks kindly for any input / solutions.

To post a hopefully helpful follow-up.. over past couple of days I got it to hold up its full brightness. To restore the full brightness of the 2nd display I disconnected / reconnected the display cable a few times until I noticed it was suddenly matching the full brightness of the 1st display. Is it the 2nd video card? The display? The G5 hardware/software? Can't say.
But after re-booting overnight, it retained the full brightness. Not sure why this happened/s, could be an isolated issue with something slightly defective?? Regardless, maybe this will help someone where both displays are not at full 100% brightness. Replug them a couple times to see if that tricks it back into action.
Remember, my toggles in the display prefs said both were at 100% yet the 2nd display was clearly 20% darker before I got them back to true 100%.
In the end, these LED displays are truely magnificent (aside from my isolated issue).

2nd display/monitor not working (strange problem)

hello,
I have a mac pro with this specification...
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro1,1
Processor Name:          Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors:          2
Total Number Of Cores:          4
L2 Cache (per processor):          4 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system):          1.7f10
Serial Number (system):          Y***Q2
Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F207E704
Display monitor Specs :
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
Slot:          Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          256 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0393
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3008
Displays:
Cinema:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
Cinema HD:
Resolution:          1920 x 1200
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported
Problems facing....
My cinema HD is set to primary display and Cinema as 2nd display. Everything was working fine but suddenly my 2nd display stopped working. It remains black as if its in sleep mood. The small power led light on the monitor is On(not blinking). In Graphics/Displays shows both monitors are connected. I can drag any window to the 2nd display as if its working but its still black. In display preferences it shows both monitor on arrangement section. I can even change the resolution size of both monitors.
My cinema display monitor has no problem. I have checked it already. I have swapped the DVI ports at the back of my cpu but it seems only the 2nd port is giving this problem. As if no matter what my 2nd port of graphics card is on sleep mood. I have taken it to our local apple center and both ports were working fine there, the only difference is they checked it using none apple lcd monitor. But when I brought it back to office, it had the same problem again. The strange thing is....one day while I was working the 2nd display suddenly appeared but when I restarted my mac, it went back to the same problem. Till now my 2nd display not showing anymore. I have reinstalled to new OSx but the problem remains. So can anyone pls tell me how I can solve this problem.
thanks
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only the 2nd port is giving this problem
You have an older card, and the second port is flaky. The problem follows the port.
I am sorry to be so blunt, but the problem is YOU.
No one wants to be the one to club you on the head and point out that your card is dying, and you are going to have to get a new(er) one. There is no "quick fix" for dying Hardware, and no fix at all for you when you will not connect the dots and realize your card is on its last legs.
If running 10.6.4 or later, you can install the 5770 and it will work, but not at quite the advertised speeds if your slot will only go up to 8x.

2nd Display Question?

Hi! I've been using my ibook G4 12" for a few months now, absolutely loving it.
And I want to hook up a bigger 2nd display on my ibook, so I can watch movies more comfortable, but the manual says it won't support external display more than 1024x768, is that true?
Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks!

Sorry! Got it, SSD.

2nd Display of macbook

I've read a few things about the subject but never had a clear anwser. I've read that the maximum resolution for the 2nd display of the macbook is 1920X1200. Doesn't help me if I plan to buy a 19'' inches with a maximum of 1440 X 900. I want to use the 19'' to expend my desktop. Will it work properly (without distortion)
If you have any infos about that thank you for your answer

1440x900 is less than the MacBook's maximum resolution of 1920x1200. That means it'll work just fine as a second display at its full resolution. You just can't run a display that's larger than 1920x1200, such as Apple's 30" Cinema Display. But the 23", for example, will work fine, as will anything smaller.

2nd display connected to iMac stays black (Thunderbolt - HDMI)

Hi everyone,
with my new iMac (purchased 2 weeks ago) I have the problem that my 2nd display will stay black after I connected it to the Thunderbolt port. The display shows the blue background for a split second, then i goes black (and stays that way). I find the following lines in the log file:
Feb 15 18:18:34 Edoras Dock[157]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSCopyDisplayUUID: Invalid display 0x003f003d
Feb 15 18:18:34 Edoras Dock[157]: uuid_callback_master: failed to retrieve UUID for display 0x003f003d (1001) (invariant failure)
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x78c8d3f5
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x78c8d3f5
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x78c8d3f5
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x78c8d3f5
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x78c8d3f5
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: _NXGetScreenRect: error getting display bounds (1001)
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetCurrentDisplayMode: Invalid display 0x78c8d3f5
Feb 15 18:18:37 Edoras Terminal[513]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x78c8d3f5
The display is an AOC e2343F2, with two HDMI and one VGA port. I am using a Mini-Displayport to HDMI cable to connect the display. This worked with my Mac Pro (from 2006, AMD Radeon HD5770) without a problem.
Is this a problem with the in 10.7.x included drivers?
With the new Thunderbolt port?
I tried it with 10.7.2 and 10.7.3 on the iMac and the Mac Pro. It works like a charm on the Mac Pro, but not on the iMac. Do I need to buy the overpriced Apple adapter and can't use my adapter cable anymore?

Just a theory. Looking at the log errors you showed the system cannot get the display bounds. My theory is that the display is not able to pass the EDID (extended display identification data) through a TB port. While your 5770 could handle it the TB can't. Again, it's just my theory.
Another thing to check is your Displays system preferences. See if the Display is showing in the Arrangement tab. If so click Detect Displays and also Gather Windows to bring the second monitor's Displays preferences on to your main monitor. If you get this far then set the appropriate resolution and refresh rate (if refresh rate is shown).
If there is no Displays Arrangement tab then the system doesn't even know the second monitor is connected. I don't have a solution for this problem since I don't have TB. Although the resolution is not as good you may have to try a VGA adapter for that monitor. No guarantees that will work either of course.

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