At home I work regularly between two monitors – I have a Dell monitor connected to my MacBook Pro. It's not something I've done a whole lot until recently so I was trying to find a solution to the problem that when I'm working in an application on the connected monitor, how can I always have the dialog boxes for that application open on that monitor, and vice versa? It's pretty annoying and definitely slows down work a bit, especially if an application open on the other monitor is in full screen.
Dual-monitor – dialog boxes appear on “wrong” screen
dual-screen
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Here's a shell one-liner that will do what you ask:
cliclick -r m:=-50,300 w:50 kd:ctrl kp:arrow-left ku:ctrl w:50
- cliclick is a tool to move the mouse and is unfortunately necessary for this
-r: When done, move the mouse back to where it was when it startedm:=-50,300: move the mouse to the coordinates (-50, 300). The=is to actually do negative x values (for another monitor) rather than relativew:50: wait 50 millisecondskd:ctrl: Press control keykp:arrow-left: Press and release the left arrowku:ctrl: Release control keyw:50: wait 50 milliseconds
(0,0) is the upper left corner of the primary monitor.
You should be able to do this by choosing the monitor on which the menu bar is active.
Try:
- System Settings -> Displays -> Arrangement
and drag the little white bar to the monitor where you want the notifications to show up.
In the picture below, the bar is being dragged from the left to the right window.
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Best Answer
If you open System Preferences - Display, then click on Arrangement, you will see a white bar above one of the displays. This is where the menu bar is and will be the primary display and probably the screen that the dialogue boxes are opening on. To change just drag it across to the other screen in the Arrange window and this should then make the dialogue box appear on that screen.