Second Display Dock

To bring up the dock, either bring your cursor to the dock location, as if it were hidden, and keep moving in that direction after a brief pause; or you can drag something downwards to it.

Basically, it works like in full screen apps from 10.7+.

 

Good to know. I didn't know it worked like that in Lion.

 

Accessing the hidden dock in full screen apps is kind of flakey in DP2 (as compared to DP1).

Using the trackpad, one most keep a finger pressed down while pausing until the dock shows. If you lift if off you'll have to start your swipe over again.

Still can't get my magic mouse to bring up the dock in a full screen app though.

 

The more I play with this the more I'm convinced it's broke. Getting the hidden dock to "pop up" on a 2nd monitor is fickle at best. DP1 had it correct - worked fine.

 

Move the cursor to the bottom of the secondary display (in normal or full-screen mode) and then move it further down as if you're moving it BELOW the bottom of the screen; the dock will then pop up (and if the secondary display is not in full screen mode it will stay on that screen until you pull off the same manoeuvre on the other screen).

 

The above doesn't work every time for me. (MBP13 early 2011). Usually takes 3 or 4 attempts and I often run out of trackpad room during the swipe. Have to start from the top near the space bar and keep my finger pressed down on the trackpad during the whole process.

In DP1 all I had to do was a "double swipe" down over the dock and it popped up every time. Something has changed. Or... updating DP2 over DP1 screwed something up.

 

cool this works, but they need to shorten the activation time by about half i think!

 

This is a beautiful feature! I had no idea why my dock popped over there, and got frustrated. Now I understand, and see that it's a very nice solution!

 

Ahhhh.... thanks for the tip. I was like 'where is it? who moved it?'
Thanks!