Lock grid to second monitor

Question

I use two monitors - my main monitor for loupe/develop, and second monitor for grid. In loupe I can click through my folders and the second monitor shows the images of that folder in a grid (as it should). However if I click 'all photographs' in the Catalog tab the two monitors switch, showing grid on the main and loupe on second!

Is there any way to lock the second monitor to grid, so it is always, always grid! 😄

Conrad_C · Accepted Answer

This is only a workaround, but I use it when the Secondary Display window loses the grid…

Press Shift+G, the keyboard shortcut for Window > Secondary Display > Grid.

That sets the Secondary Display back to Grid no matter what I’m looking at.

For me it seems to keep the grid for most sources such as if I switch among folders, collections, and Smart Collections. But yeah, if I click some of the Catalog panel items such as Quick Collection or All Synced Photographs, then the Grid moves to the main window like you said. But I’m using a Mac so maybe the window code is a little different.

JohanElzenga · Answer

No, there is not because Adobe decided you cannot have grids on two monitors at the same time. So the moment you switch to a grid on the main monitor, the secondary monitor will change to loupe. I have been told that the reason why Adobe decided this is because navigating the grids using the arrow keys would cause confusion when both grids do not have the same number of images per row. Moving up a row would lead to a different image on each grid (which is not possible, of course) or a strange jump on one of the grids. Personally I would shrug my shoulders and say that the main grid should always take preference, but apparently Adobe does not think we simple souls can handle that.

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