




Some things to keep in mind:

  1. I prefer the Dock to the left.

I'm using Mac OS X Lion on a Macbook Pro.

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    I've been playing with this lately in Mavericks, and I've found that launchpad also opens on whatever screen the dock is on. I'm a right-docker who would prefer to have an external display to the right of the internal display, but have both the dock and launchpad on the internal display. I haven't been able to make it happen, so I'm going to become a left-displayer because obviously left-dockers are complete lunatics ;) – Christopher Schultz Dec 11 '15 at 19:25





  • In my opinion thats just not practical - moving the mouse up instead of left is just weird – Mike Mitterer Nov 23 '17 at 7:54
  • In practice, it's weird for maybe a half-day at most. Then it's second nature. It reminded me of the weird feeling of switching keyboards where the function and auxiliary are in a different spot. A quick relatively painless learning phase and then it's second nature. – marshallscottveach Dec 17 '17 at 5:17






The Dock need not conflict with items on Desktop





Present the menu bar on multiple displays







As of July 2016, OS X El Capitan 10.11.5, Menu bar can appear on all screens.

For Dock, you can move it to,

  1. left - appears on the leftmost screen Visual illustration: [| ][ ] where, [ ] = screen | = Dock

  2. right - appears on the rightmost screen or at the bottom. Visual illustration: [ ][ |] where, [ ] = screen | = Dock

  3. bottom - appears on both screens. If not visible on the screen you are working on, hover mouse to bottom of screen and it should appear. Visual illustration: [ __ ][ ] OR [ ][ __ ] where, [ ] = screen | = Dock

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