[captiva]

I made the leap last week and sold my G4 Quicksilver ... my main produciton Mac... and put the money towards a new 15" Al Powerbook.

Okay so now I have it hooked up at my workstation. It's connected to my 19" CRT monitor via the DVI-VGA adaptor. I click Detect Displays in Monitor and it finds the external, and I have a shared desktop.

So far so good, but... it's only 80% of how I *want* it to work. Please let me know if any of the following is possible, oh gurus.

1. As it stands, the PB display is the "master" (holds the menu bar) and the external CRT is the slave. I need it the other way around: I want the large monitor to hold the menu bar and the dock, and I want the PB display to be the "extra" on the side (for palettes etc.). Is that possible with a powerbook display? I remember when I had 2 CRTs hooked up to regular Mac, I could click on one of them in the Monitor control panel and assign it a "1" and the other a "2"...soemthing like that? Or drag a mockup of the menubar from one to the other? Can't remember. Nothing I've tried is working.

2. I like how I can put the PB to sleep, and then with the PB still closed, tap my external keyboard to "wake it up" but now only the large external monitor is live...it has the menu bar etc. In the manual, this is under "Using Your PowerBook With the Display Closed."
... But... when I open the powerbook, the screen is black... of course... how can I get the Mac to use the 2 monitors again? How can I wake up just the PB monitor?

Thanks
cap

[Mithras]

1. Open Displays (with both monitors active). Click the "Arrangement" tab.
Drag the little menu bar onto the monitor you want.
Note that the Dock goes (if on the bottom) along with the menubar; if you have it on the left or the right, it goes to the corresponding left or right monitor.

2. The Powerbook does its screen-waking decision on wakeup. So just put the powerbook to sleep (tap Power, then S), and then wake it up again.

[tooki]

No need to put it to sleep. The Displays preference pane has a "Detect Displays" button.

tooki

[captiva]

>>1. Open Displays (with both monitors active). Click the "Arrangement" tab.
Drag the little menu bar onto the monitor you want.>>

Oh yeah, baby! That did it. I guess I hadn't gotten the hotspot on the cursor exactly over the little menu bar.

Now... say I want to take the Powerbook into another room. Before I try this, would this be correct:

1. Put PowerBook to sleep (close the lid or choose Sleep from the apple menu, now conveniently at the upper left of my large external monitor. )

2. Unhook the PB from its monitor, mouse etc.

3. Open it up in another room.

When I do #3, and it wakes up, will it realize it has no other monitor hooked up to it now, and so will show the menu bar? Or will I just see an empty blue screen? (Meaning, I should have made the PB the "master" display *before* putting it to sleep and unhooking it?)

Thanks!

And thanks for the Detect Displays tip.tookie

[iXavier]

Originally posted by captiva:
Now... say I want to take the Powerbook into another room. Before I try this, would this be correct:

1. Put PowerBook to sleep (close the lid or choose Sleep from the apple menu, now conveniently at the upper left of my large external monitor. )

2. Unhook the PB from its monitor, mouse etc.

3. Open it up in another room.

When I do #3, and it wakes up, will it realize it has no other monitor hooked up to it now, and so will show the menu bar? Or will I just see an empty blue screen? (Meaning, I should have made the PB the "master" display *before* putting it to sleep and unhooking it?)

Your PB will automatically know there isn't an external monitor attached and it'll correct itself in terms of placement of the toolbars.

x.