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Nicholas Avallone
Inspiring
August 14, 2018
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Switching Between Monitor Screen & Tablet Screen

  • August 14, 2018
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I just got a drawing tablet for my iMac, and it's great for artwork, but sometimes I want to just use my iMac screen. Problem is, when I switch off the tablet and try to work on my main monitor, my workspace needs to be completely rearranged by laboriously dragging windows into place.

For example, if I want to work on the tablet, I need to drag the entire Photoshop window over to the tablet screen, and unless I want to manage them on the iMac screen, I need to drag any contextual menus over as well as needed (e.g. Save As... or Layer Styles or Brush Settings, etc.)

Then if I switch off the tablet and want to work on my larger iMac screen, I have to go through the whole process again.

Does anyone know any clever tricks that make this process automatic?

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jbm007
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jbm007Community Expert
Community Expert
August 14, 2018

Create a new workspace on your mac

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Nicholas AvalloneAuthor
Inspiring
August 15, 2018

Have you actually gotten that to work? Because I tried that before posting, with no luck.

Workspaces seem to base your arrangement of windows and panels on the current monitor only.

For example: I created Workspace01 on my iMac monitor, and Workspace02 on my tablet. If I work on my tablet using Workspace02, then turn off the tablet, all windows and panels appear off the side of my iMac monitor, partially inaccessible.

So I figured switching to Workspace01 would gather all the windows and panels back to my iMac monitor exactly where I set them up when I created the iMac monitor workspace. But it doesn't. They just hang out off the edge of the screen.

In short, once windows are moved between monitors, changing workspace has no impact on the location of those windows.

ianb10704575
ianb10704575
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October 16, 2018

I can't believe no one else has an issue with this. No one else finds it excruciating to move every dialog window after turning on a secondary monitor?

How does everyone else deal with having Photoshop run on different monitors? Do you just leave your secondary monitor on all the time?

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