No Dual Screen on Mac 17.1 ?

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Uli Plank

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No Dual Screen on Mac 17.1 ?

PostThu Mar 11, 2021 7:49 am

Got a weird problem: While my system is seeing two screens and I can move my windows over, I can't activate Dual Screen mode in DR. It's greyed out. Strange thing, though, is that I can do a Clean Feed to the other screen. This is 17.1 final under Catalina.

I doubt it's the hardware, since I have dual-boot on this iMac for testing purposes. If I boot into Mojave and run 17.0, I can use dual screen mode as expected.

Anybody seeing this? Is it a problem in 17.1?

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Re: No Dual Screen on Mac 17.1 ?

PostThu Mar 11, 2021 3:43 pm

Are you by any chance in the CUT page (which is single screen only ) ?
Otherwise thry the UI reset option from the same dropdown menu at least 2 times. (one is sometimes not enough to fix UI sizing issues)
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Re: No Dual Screen on Mac 17.1 ?

PostThu Mar 11, 2021 6:26 pm

Glenn Venghaus wrote:Are you by any chance in the CUT page (which is single screen only ) ?
Otherwise thry the UI reset option from the same dropdown menu at least 2 times. (one is sometimes not enough to fix UI sizing issues)

Thanks Glenn - I had the same issue as described by Uli on 17.1 running on M1 (obviously Big Sur) and your suggestion fixed it!
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Re: No Dual Screen on Mac 17.1 ?

PostFri Mar 12, 2021 6:09 am

No, on the Edit page. But you are my hero now: Of course, I tried a UI reset, but not two of them in a row. That fixed it.

Thanks for not only making great software for controlling Resolve on the Mac, but even taking the time to help on this forum!
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Re: No Dual Screen on Mac 17.1 ?

PostFri Mar 12, 2021 7:08 am

No problem. Happy you get it working again.
The reason i know this wierd fix is that i regularly switch to all kinds of resolutions to simulate all types of customer setups and since version 12.5 Resolve does not like it when you switch resolutions , or attach/detatch/enable/disable screens specialy when it is running. Sometimes panels are not properly resized or the bottom 3 panels layout gets stuck in 2 panels mode with wierd dimensions
So i found out that the 100% sure way to fix it is 2x UI reset in a row and in hard cases restart resolve after it and do it again.
There are even a few resolutions that are on the edge of just facilitating 3 vs 2 panes at the bottom that require this a few times plus a few reset to kick resolve back in shape. Stuborn little thing ;-)
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