#MAC DISPLAY MAID FULL#

I’m certainly open to better solutions (or new ones that have come out in the last six months) – suggest away in the comments.

I still go back to multiple desktops if I’m going to be unplugged for a long stretch of time, but moving things back and forth between desktops is way too fiddly. The solution I ended up with is less than ideal: let OS X handle the window distribution and learn to work on a laptop with only a single desktop. I’m assuming this is an API/SDK limitation as this seems like a pretty obvious feature idea.

There was no option to pull all apps to one desktop when plugged in to a monitor, then distribute them again when unplugged.

The difference here was better than default OS X window handling, but not that much better.

While windows would be restored most of the time, they wouldn’t be restored all of the time.

I can’t remember the details of each at this point, but I tried a couple of them for a week or so each (pretty sure I did both Stay and Display Maid, can’t recall on Size-Up or Optimal Layout).Īfter evaluating a few options, I saw the same problems consistently: It looks like this is an annoyance I share with others, as there are a bunch of utilities out there that hope to solve this problem:

#MAC DISPLAY MAID FULL#

Now that I’m back to using a laptop full time, I’m right back to the old hassle of having my windows scatter all over the place when I connect and disconnect an external display. I started the following post back in August of 2011 Sean’s comment on my previous post prompted me to dig it up.

Mac display maid