osx - Stick floating eclipse windows on second screen with Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks

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2013-12
  • James

    When working with eclipse, I'm used to have a floating window with the console and other views on my secondary monitor. Since the update to OSX 10.9 (Mavericks), I still can drag the floating window to the secondary screen, but it keeps popping back to the main monitor when e.g. changing the perspective - which is really annoying. This did not happen with Mac OS 10.8. Is there a way that the floating windows of eclipse stay on the secondary monitor?

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  • James

    Since Mac OS 10.9, the second screen is actually an own "space" and Mac OS seems to gather all windows of an application on the same space - somehow. But anyway. To switch back to the previous behaviour where the default space simply spans both screens, you can uncheck the box called "Displays have separate spaces" ("Monitore verwenden verschiedene Spaces" in German) in the "Mission Control" settings. After logging out and in again, the desktop and eclipse's floating windows behave like always again.


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  • Chealion

    On older laptops (eg. earlier MacBooks, MacBook Pros, Powerbooks, etc.), by default it's simply F7. You will need to press Fn if you have "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" checked off in the Keyboard and Mouse Preference Pane.

    ⌘ - F1 is supposed to work but I've found it quite spotty in terms of whether it worked or not on desktop (eg. iMac, Mac Pro) machines.

  • eed3si9n

    It's ⌘-F1 or ⌘-fn-1, depending on the setting according to Chealion.

    I found this on Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. It's listed there as "Command-Function-1," but on my current generation (3rd generation?), unibody, MBP, ⌘-F1 is what works for me.

  • Indrek

    For an iMac, it's ⌘+Fn+2 or ⌘+2, depending on how you configure the use of the Fn keys on your computer. Don't know if they updated this for MacBooks as well.

  • mato

    I had a dead monitor on my iMac and connected it to a spare monitor then turned on Voice Over on boot up. From there used the tab and arrow keys to navigate to the System Prefs > Displays to turn on mirroring.