Lightroom window moves to secondary monitor

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August 4, 2023
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Running LR 12.4 on an iMac (Monterrey 12.6.3) with a second monitor. I have LR on the main iMac screen in Full Screen with Menu Mode and other apps on the 2nd display. Almost every time I click on an app in the 2nd monitor, the LR window switches to that display and I need to change the screen mode to Normal, move it back to the primary screen the go back to Full Sxreen with Menu. This has been happening for a while with several different versions of both OS and LR.

It's driving me nut and any fixes would be greatly appreciated?

macOS

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gabkadt

Participant

Still happening in macOS Sequoia. 15.7.1 (24G231). It's the only app I use that has this bug and today it's already happened about 5 times. I had thought I was hitting a strange keyboard shortcut by accident - but I'm pretty certain I'm not doing anything odd. (Seems to only happen when I switch between apps, I use [Command] + [TAB])

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anssik_

Known Participant

What's the solution to this? I've had this issue since I accidently updated macOS from 13 Ventura to 15 Seqouia (macOS 15.3.1). Running Lightroom Classic 13.5.1.

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lgelfan

Participant

Happens to me as well on Sonoma (14.7.4), definitely a pain. I can often fix it by using Mission Control to drag the window back if it's a single view. It takes a few seconds to resize, or you may need to change modes (e.g., Library->Develop) to trigger the resize. Sometimes restarting LR Classic is the only way to fully reset, particularly when using both windows (secondary display) in LR. I'm using an Eizo for main monitor and MBP display for secondary.

Did you try turning this off in macOS Mission Control settings btw? (I believe the default is on.):
When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application

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evanwish

Participating Frequently

I'm having this problem as well and have tried everything I've been able to find online. No luck so far.

Lightroom will randomly jump to one of my other monitors. I have spaces set up on my mac, and lightroom doesn't jump between spaces on the main monitor, just will dissapear to another monitor. Often when I've done "open in Photoshop," but not always. This wouldn't be too much of a problem, but because my monitors have different resolutions, when I drag lightroom back to the main monitor, lightroom is shrunken and the only way to make it full screen is to quit lightroom and restart. This wastes lots of time as it keeps happening, and is very frustrating.

And no, it has nothing to do with the lightroom's second monitor setting.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

I don't think this has anything to do with the preference setting as suggested, because that preference is about the secondary Lightroom window, not the main Lightroom window that you have a problem with. I think you need to check the 'Spaces' settings in MacOS X Settings. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh14112/mac

I remember having issues like this when I had Spaces setup wrongly. I don't use Spaces at all anymore, and haven't had any issues since.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Daniel R Bynum

Community Expert

Hi there,

I would go under preferences, go to display and check the settings there. See my screenshot.

~ Daniel

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