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Multiple Monitors and the Dock
Authored by: Frederico on Oct 18, '02 09:19:30PM

As others have mentioned, the Dock and multiple monitors is a continued frustration. Back in the Public Beta, one could manipulate the dock at least to work on any one of multiple monitors placed on a single horizontal plane.

Since 10.1.x,, however, it's either the bottom of the Main screen, or the edge of the furthest-left or furthest-right monitor on the same plane as the main screen.

My setup is six screens; three over three; with the main screen in the lower center plane.

This tip puts the dock on the top of the screen above my main screen in the center. Interesting, but not exactly what I want.

Gideon Softworks' Dock-It is seeking to help with this behavior; as it is, it's the only application (that I'm aware of) that allows for multiple
*SIMULTANEOUS* docks, placed at any location, left, right, top, bottom, centered or otherwise -- except that it is currently limited to the Main screen.

The developer says (based on my request) that he is working on multiple monitor support (allowing a dock to be placed on any edge of any screen, ala DropDrawers) for the next version.

In the meantime, check out DropDrawers X, which can add a tabbed interface (again, on any edge of any screen) that in many cases can replicate the functionality of the Dock.



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