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Running multiple monitors with OS X?

Posted in Apple, Geeky, Tech by Derek at 4:15 pm
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For anyone that is running a dual monitor setup with OS X, you’ve most likley questioned Apple’s reasons for not providing a little more flexibility with the Menu Bar. Thankfully, there are others out there that have questioned why menu items are not more easily accessible from a secondary monitor when the menu is located on the primary.

At current there are two solutions (that I am aware of) for circumventing the problem of menu items being located a few mouse swipes across the table (3500+ pixels can be a long way to travel). Check out either of the following which provide additional methods for accessing crucial Menu Bar items no matter which display is set to be the primary.

  • StepMenus – Provides a NeXT Step style main menu for Cocoa Mac OS X applications. Menu Bar items for the currently active application will be displayed in a simple floating box menu.
  • DejaMenu – Will display the current application’s main menu as a contextual menu when a key combination is pressed.

StepMenus does not look as though it has been updated in quite some time but DejaMenus recently received its 1.2.1 update in August 2006. StepMenus is a PPC release while DejaMenus is provided as a Universal Binary.

If there are any other applications / utilities worth checking out, drop your recommendations in the comments.

2 Responses to “Running multiple monitors with OS X?”

  1. AK says:

    Doubt anyone will notice this comment but…
    Whenever I CTRL-click on something in my second monitor the menu shows up on the main monitor. Anyone else notice this?

  2. Jack Bynoe says:

    AK, I had that problem with Firefox (right clicking and autocomplete boxes appeared on my laptop monitor when they were supposed to be on my external). A simple restart of Firefox helped (That instance of Firefox had been running since before I first plugged in my external monitor). That’s the only problems I’ve had though.

    I hope that’s of some use…

    jack

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