Attached monitor - how do I show dock on monitor using, and not just on laptop?

[Marty_Macfly]

Hi all,

I've got an external monitor working with the M1.

Monitor on LHS, Laptop on RHS.

I've set an extended screen ok, the cursor will go from LHS, over to RHS etc.

HOWEVER - the Dock is only showing on the tiny RHS Laptop screen

How do I set it to show on the main monitor screen, without resorting to MIRROR screen, same on both monitor and Laptop.


Hope you can advise

Martin

 

[justashooter]

In System Preferences > Mission Control is "Displays have seperate Spaces" checked? It should be to have Dock on both monitors. A logout and back in is required, I believe.

 

[Marty_Macfly]

In System Preferences > Mission Control is "Displays have seperate Spaces" checked? It should be to have Dock on both monitors. A logout and back in is required, I believe.

Thanks J,

Will try tonight after work if I can 🙂

Martin

 

[Marty_Macfly]

In System Preferences > Mission Control is "Displays have seperate Spaces" checked? It should be to have Dock on both monitors. A logout and back in is required, I believe.

Hi J,

Afraid I already had this ticked.

still got the same problem, even with reboot

 

[Marty_Macfly]

I'm going to leave in MIRROR mode for the time being I reckon.

I'm finding it too confusing having 2 screens open at the moment, with this new UI.

The laptop screen being so much smaller is a problem for me as well


Cheers
Martin

 

[justashooter]

I am on Mojave, I'm guessing you are on Big Sur and maybe Apple has changed how it works.
With two screens active (not mirrored) does the menu bar appear on the laptop screen or the external momnitor when you go to System preferences > Display > Arrangement. You can drag the bar from screen to screen in that window. Just a thought.

 

[brianmowrey]

What are your dock settings? If "Position on Screen" is Left or Right, then only one of your displays will contain your dock. Change it to Bottom so that both displays can have the dock (though you still need to jerk the cursor downward to toggle it form one to the other).

 

[ght56]

As far as I know, the Dock can only be on one display at a time. However, you can rapidly move the Dock from one display to another - simply move your cursor to the other monitor and then drag the cursor straight vertically down until it hits the bottom of the display. The Dock will then move to that display. Move the Dock to a particular display and then click to open an app and that app will open on that display (unless you assign the app to open on a specific display.) This is useful with two displays and super useful with 3-4+.

That said, you may also want to set your monitor as the primary display. This you do in Sys Pref-->displays-->arrangement and then drag the top menubar to the display you wish to designate as primary.

 

[justashooter]

I have always had my dock set to "Automatically hide and show the dock" and in this mode both monitors work the same - run the curser down and the dock pops up. I guess it was always moving the dock back and forth, I just didn't realize it. If this mode is unchecked then ght56 is correct on how to move the "always in view dock" from one monitor to the other.

 

[Marty_Macfly]

Hi All,

I worked it out

Bit rubbish need to do this in Big Sur, but hey it works 😀
Hope the below is of use to others


Best wishes
Martin


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Steps:
1. Physically set up monitor on LHS of Laptop
2. Settings > Arrangements - Drag windows into the right places, corresponding to where the displays are.

3. DOCK > Preferences - Set to LHS
- this takes the DOCK onto the External Monitor, on LHS of the monitor screen

4. THEN
- DOCK > Preferences - Set to bottom
- The is a bit of a pause
- Then Viola - its at the bottom on the external monitor!


5. After this:
- Drag down cursor
- The DOCK appears in screen you dragged down in > either Monitor or Laptop screen