ScherzkeCks Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Hi, I have set Alfred under Appearance->Options to "default screen". And I assume my default screen is the one i drag the menu bar on under system settings. But Alfred is still showing on the other screen. Neither reboot of Alfred nor a reboot of the whole system helps. Greetings Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Hi, I have set Alfred under Appearance->Options to "default screen". And I assume my default screen is the one i drag the menu bar on under system settings. But Alfred is still showing on the other screen. Neither reboot of Alfred nor a reboot of the whole system helps. Greetings Stefan Which OS are you using? I've just tested this on this machine (10.9) and when Alfred's "default screen" is selected, Alfred shows on the screen where the menu bar is displayed in OS X's display settings... no need to reboot, the update is instant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vero Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Hi, I have set Alfred under Appearance->Options to "default screen". And I assume my default screen is the one i drag the menu bar on under system settings. But Alfred is still showing on the other screen. Neither reboot of Alfred nor a reboot of the whole system helps. Greetings Stefan I've also had a test, this time on Yosemite; - Default will show on your Mac's default screen (the one where the menu bar is shown if you look at your OS X Displays > Arrangement) and correctly changes from one to the other when the bar is dragged - Mouse screen will follow your mouse and Alfred will show up on whichever screen your mouse is currently on - Active screen (which only works for 10.9 and 10.10) will cause Alfred to show on the screen that currently has the in-focus app If Default doesn't do this, could you check you haven't ticked the "Save position when dragging Alfred main window" box just above the position dropdown menu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScherzkeCks Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Hi, I have 10.10 installed. I don't have the Save position when dragging Alfred main window box activated. Tried changing the option to one of the other two (which work as intended) and then back to default but default still shows Alfred on the wrong screen. I also tried changing the default screen of OsX to the external monitor and back but that didn't help either. Thanks for your help! Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Hi, I have 10.10 installed. I don't have the Save position when dragging Alfred main window box activated. Tried changing the option to one of the other two (which work as intended) and then back to default but default still shows Alfred on the wrong screen. I also tried changing the default screen of OsX to the external monitor and back but that didn't help either. Thanks for your help! Stefan I've played with this a little more and it looks like there is a scenario where it will take the saved screen position over the "Show Alfred on" setting. Could you select "Save position when dragging Alfred main window" and drag it onto the screen you would like it on... this is another way to achieve what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScherzkeCks Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Sure thing, thank you for your help. If you need any more information to find and fix this, just let me know. I will be happy to assist. Greetings Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Sure thing, thank you for your help. If you need any more information to find and fix this, just let me know. I will be happy to assist. Greetings Stefan Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 To reproduce: With Show Alfred on "default screen".... Select "Save position when dragging Alfred main window", drag onto secondary monitor then deselect "Save position when dragging Alfred Main window". Alfred will continue to show on secondary screen. [moved into bug reports so as to investigate further] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScherzkeCks Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Almost, Alfred will continue to show where dragged until dragged again. Then it is back to secondary screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Almost, Alfred will continue to show where dragged until dragged again. Then it is back to secondary screen. I'm re-familiarising myself with the window position behaviour, and it looks like in "default screen" mode with "save position" unticked, you can drag Alfred to the screen you would like him to show on. He will then show in the position shown in the "Where he shows" appearance options pref on the last screen you selected. This seems to work as expected on 10.9 and 10.10, so it looks like the text needs to be updated to reflect this. Is this the behaviour you are seeing? Cheers, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScherzkeCks Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Hi, it is. Thank you very much. Greetings Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Hi, it is. Thank you very much. Greetings Stefan Thanks for confirming! I will update the text in the preferences to better reflect this behaviour and to remove confusion. Thanks for your help with this Cheers, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 This should now be fixed if you update to the 2.7 pre-release (in Alfred's update prefs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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