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November 14, 2018
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How Can I Move the Options Bar to my Second Monitor?

  • November 14, 2018
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I've moved all my palettes to my second monitor, so that my main iMac monitor, with the Apple menus at the top, shows only my image. But the Options Bar does not seem to offer any way to move it to that second monitor. There's no grab area at the left of the bar, for example.

How can I move it to my second monitor?

I'm running Mac OS X Mojave and Photoshop CC 2019.

Thanks for any help.

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Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 14, 2018

I've managed to do it with Windows by dragging the application window to a different monitor, and dragging a tabbed document window back to my main screen.  It was a bugger putting back together again, so thanks for that.

Known Participant
November 14, 2018

Yes, this all became an issue when I moved my menu bar back to my main monitor, and all the palettes etc. all migrated, too -- to the wrong place. I had to rearrange everything by hand all over again.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 15, 2018

Sure -- Workspaces work like normal. Just can't move that Options Bar to the second monitor.


I wasn't home when I made the last post.

Here it is with an external monitor with the picture on the main MacBook Pro screen w/menu bar and the panels including the tool options bar on the secondary monitor.

Legend
November 14, 2018

I don't know about Mac but in Windows this is not possible.

Known Participant
November 14, 2018

Might easily be true for the Mac, too. I'm going to ignore the issue.

Known Participant
November 14, 2018

That doesn't seem to tell me how to move the options bar, does it?

Kukurykus
Legend
November 14, 2018

Yes, but it shows even when you will do it somehow a new problem will most possibly arise. Try with one monitor to see it.