I've just installed a new monitor on my MacBook, and I noticed that the menu bar only appears on one screen or the other – I have to haul over to whichever screen has the menu if I'm using the other one, and it's a pretty frustrating process. Does anyone know if there's a setting or utility that lets you display the menu bar on both screens?
Macos – Showing the menu bar on multiple screens on Mac OS X
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Upgrading to VMware Fusion 7 fix's the problem. It came out a few days ago.
Virtual wall
- LittleBigMouse fixes the virtual wall problem in its current version, as Flexo013 pointed out in his answer
- DisplayFusion provides an option for skipping the Virtual wall in it's paid Pro version - thanks to Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 for the link
- There is a study published by Microsoft in 2004: Mouse ether: accelerating the acquisition of targets across multi-monitor displays. It finds that mouse ether improved participants’ performance on a target acquisition task across two screens running at different resolutions by up to 28%. Unfortunately, the mentioned application Mouse Ether isn't available for download.
Cursor speed
It appears that Microsoft has finally fixed the mouse speed issue in Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16273 so most probably the fix will be in Fall Creators Update (2017). It is activated by changing the scaling of a screen.
There were three projects which address the cursor speed problem on multiple screens with different resolutions.
- DpiGonzales on github which works very well on my system - thanks to Sandor Drieënhuizen for developping the tool and for sharing the link
- There is a project called LittleBigMouse on github, which is in alpha state and not stable on my system.
- The most configurable program I've found is Custom Screen Speed on its developers website, but the configuration has to be set manually and it is not stored. Therefore it has to be reconfigured at each system start.
Cursor Size
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Best Answer
I used Second Bar for a while. It works on Snow Leopard and I didn't have any problems.