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Re:Why don't Macs support multiple monitors? by hitonagashi on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:36AM (#856973)
Well, it might be a sensationalist article, but it does bug me that mac's don't have the menu bar on the second monitor. To me, I rarely use it, I just find the disjunction between the screens slightly jarring...

I can understand that it might be far more hassle than it's worth to support and code, but what might be a good design reason for not putting it on other monitors?

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Re:Why don't Macs support multiple monitors? by tumult on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:48AM (#856995)
It wastes space and then you have to think about a way to display two separate items which represent the same data but which can be in different states.

If you're using the menu bar so much that having it on the other screen causes you to be unable to use the second display, you should consider learning keyboard shortcuts for the menu items instead of clicking on them manually each time. They should be labeled in an application's menus, if it follows Mac design guidelines (and common sense.)

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Re:Why don't Macs support multiple monitors? by MaysonL on Friday October 02, 2009 @06:56PM (#858203)
And with Snow Leopard, you can assign your own keyboard shortcuts - and they'll even show up in the menus! System Preferencea->Keyboard=>Keyboard Shortcuts->Application Shortcuts (click on the plus sign)
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