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Why Apple would implement full-screen mode for its applications in the way it does (rendering other monitors unusable) remains a mysterious failing to me.Дoes SwitchResX enable non-Retina display modes on the Mac Book Pro Retina display (such as 2880 x 1800)? Unfortunately the Full-Screen App behaviour is problematic, to say the least. Part of the beauty of Mac for me is the integration of Apple applications that come with the OS and AppleвЂ™s great support for same (during the initial year and beyond that if you have Apple Care). YouвЂ™ll see in that discussion mention of another non-Apple application that can be full-screen on one monitor and leave the other monitor(s) available for whatever else the user wants.

Please have a look at the (very long) discussion at вЂ“ you will have to sift through some diversions but youвЂ™ll see some really intelligent and thoughtful comments about this. Recall my initial posting here said вЂњTake any Apple application that supports вЂњFull-Screen AppвЂќ mode (see ).вЂќ

I am referring ONLY to APPLE applications and the вЂњnewвЂќ feature of OS X Lion (and now Mountain Lion) of AppleвЂ™s Full-Screen Apps. However, it drives me bananas the way Apple has provided full-screen apps that render other (expensive) monitors useless whenever I want to take advantage of the full-screen feature of an Apple app.ДЄrron вЂ“ you say it is all about the application that one is using. Now, I can always use the green button or otherwise maximize and app on a certain monitor to get pretty much the desired effect.

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For example take Firefox to one monitor and hit F11 and youвЂ™re in full screen (ie: kiosk mode) while the other monitor(s) remain fully available, you can even have another instance of Firefox on another monitor and make it full-screen on that monitor.ДonвЂ™t get me wrong, this is not about which OS is better вЂ“ only that in my view Apple is wrong if вЂњFullscreen mode tells OS X to that you only want to focus on this app right now and ignore everything else.вЂќ That may be what Apple is doing вЂ“ or thinks users should be doing вЂ“ but I want to be able to go full-screen on one monitor and still be able to focus on other things in other monitors.

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In that other operating system, whatвЂ™s it called, oh yes, Windows 7, you can make an app full screen on one monitor and the other monitor(s) remain available for whatever use вЂ“ even another full-screen. Aria mentions that this is what Gnome and KDE so. I am not 100% certain what you mean, but I can say that in other operating systems you can make an app вЂњfull-screenвЂќ and it will go full screen on that monitor and leave the other monitors alone and available for any other uses. You seem to indicate about this full-screen app behaviour вЂњThatвЂ™s the way it works on any multi-monitor use in full screen modeвЂќ. But I have not seen Mountain Lion so can only relate rumours.

For example, I might want to use one of the remaining monitors to have another Full-Screen App on it in full screen (ie: Safari full-screen on one monitor, Quick TIme full screen on another), while leaving the remaining monitors for вЂњnormalвЂќ use.Д«y the way, when you make an app go full-screen, does it do so on the monitor where you have it or does it go to the primary display? Apparently Mountain Lion will let full screen apps go full-screen on the display where they are BUT still the remaining monitors become useless. What do I want to see? Well, simply put, I want the вЂњFull-Screen AppвЂќ go full screen on the monitor the application is on while leaving the other monitors untouched and available for whatever use I want to put them to вЂ“ вЂњnormalвЂќ windows or full-screen app windows. Personally I find this behaviour to be exceedingly BAD and poorly designed (and I donвЂ™t think I am alone in this opinion). I gather that you are CONFIRMING that making a вЂњFull-Screen AppвЂќ go full screen DOES in fact render the other three monitors blank (ie: the grey linen background) and therefore you can do NOTHING with the other monitors.

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