Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)

Re:Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2) by wlll on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:46AM (#22326414)

My problems are mostly around external monitors too. I have the new 16", but I had issues on my 2014 MBP running mojave too.

I have two external monitors, an Apple 27" and a Samsung 32. Sometimes the mac won't wake up my Samsung external monitor and it needs re-plugging to get it recognised (re-arranging my windows in the process).

Also, if the laptop sleeps and puts the external displays to sleep, when the laptop is then woken up there's a high chance that the non-Apple external display won't wake up in time for the OS to think it's there and it will temporarily remove it, re-arranging my windows again. These issues only happen on my non-Apple monitor, and happened the same when I had a Dell monitor too.

I used to have Finder isses too, though not Mojave related. I solved it accidentally by switching from Chrome to Firefox. YMMV.

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Re:Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2) by filchermcurr on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:43AM (#22327966)

Oh yeah, the oh-too-familiar multiple monitor horror! I finally gave up and just bought a single ultrawide. I could feel my preciously slim sanity slipping away day by day with the struggle to wake my computer up without incident. nervous twitch

Strange about Chrome! I've always been a Firefox user, so I never had that particular issue. Unless the billions of Electron applications count...

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Re:Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2) by wlll on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:30PM (#22333266)

I figured it was a resource starvation thing. Didn't look into it once Firefox cured the issue,

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