[Ti] Unable to run my HD Cinema Display while 17" PB is closed.

[Bill Palmer]

Chris Rock wrote:

> Unable to run my HD Cinema Display while 17" PB is closed.
>
> I try both booting from off with dvi plugged into my HD Cinema 
> Display, I try closing the display on the 17" PB while it is running 
> and then trying to wake the machine.
>
> When I boot fresh it does start up the right resolution but once it 
> gets to the login it shuts the HD display off and the PB stays there 
> not asleep, but waiting to be opened to log into it.
>
>
> Has anyone run their 17" PB with the HD Cinema Display as the only 
> display? Hell I would be fine with leaving the 17" PB open if it 
> didn't force itself as the primary display containing the dock and the 
> menus.

Use the Displays control panel to change this.  Go to the Arrangement 
tab, drag the displays into their desired positions, and drag the menu 
bar to the display where you want it.  That's where you'll get the dock 
and menu bar, unless you've set the dock to be on one of the sides, in 
which case the location will depend on the display arrangement you've set.

I do most of my dock usage by the keyboard, so I have the dock off to 
the right-hand side, on my PB (800 MHz DVI) display, and the menu bar on 
my 17" Apple display, which is the primary display when hooked up.  When 
I'm elsewhere, everything gets piled on the built-in display.  The only 
problem I've noticed is with the Mozilla web browser - if you start it 
up when in single-display mode, then plug in the second display, some of 
its popup windows still show up on the original display, even if they 
are associated with a window on the new display.  Annoying, but simply 
restarting the browser is a workaround.

                Bill