[lAwrencex]

hi. i am the owner of an albook 15 and i just recently purchased a 17 inch studio display. i hooked it up and im trying to figure out how to switch the spanning options to make the studio display have my dock and toolbar instead of my powerbook. also. how do i swithc it so when i close the laptop lid it lets me work on the studio display instead of making the computer go to sleep.

[tooki]

To move the menu bar, go into System Preferences, go into Displays, and after detecting the second display, you should see a tab called "Arrange". You use this both to move the two displays relative to each other, and you can drag the little tiny menu bar from one screen to another.

The dock will always go under the menu bar. (If you arrange the displays to be vertically stacked, then the dock won't be on the same screen, but on the lowest one.)

The PowerBook will always go to sleep when you close the lid. You can't change that. But what you do is just wake it up with the lid closed and the external display connected. (Note: you must be plugged in for this to work!)

You can wake it up by pressing a key on the keyboard, or connecting another USB device.

tooki