Multiple displays

A workspace spans every display you connect. Switching workspaces switches all of them at once: the whole project changes, on every screen.

Give each display its layout

With more than one display connected, the editor shows One workspace across all displays above the canvas, with a button for each display. Choose one to see and change its layout: its zones, the apps in them, and its floating apps. The canvas takes that display’s proportions.

A workspace you made before plugging in a display keeps its layout on the display it was made on. The other displays have no zones until you choose a template for them.

Move an app to another display

In Apps, open an app’s placement menu and choose a display under Move to display. The app keeps its work context: the same folder, tabs, link or chat, whichever display it’s on.

The Layout bar

The Layout bar stays on the main display, the one that has the menu bar in System Settings › Displays. The other displays show the macOS menu bar.

Unplug and plug back in

When you disconnect a display, its windows wait on the main display. The display’s layout and the places of its windows stay saved, and plugging it back in puts them back. If you move or resize one of those windows while its display is away, that becomes its new place.

In the editor, a display you disconnected stays in the list, marked Disconnected · layout kept, so you can still change its layout.

Saved desktops and the Overview

Save desktop records the windows of every display, each one relative to its display. The Overview shows every display too.

Spaces and full screen

Layout manages its own desktop on each display. While another Space or an app in native full screen is showing on any of them, Layout doesn’t switch workspaces, and it doesn’t treat the windows it can’t see as closed. Go back to that desktop, or leave full screen, and switching works again.

Good to know

• Displays switch together. One display can’t show another workspace on its own.