Spectacle: "Next/Prev Display" actions moving wrong direction with three displays

[trevordunn]

If a window is on display 1 and I use the "Next Display" keyboard shortcut (or from selecting from the menu icon), the window moves to display 3. Pressing "Next Display" will move it to screen 2, then 1 again. I would expect it to move from 1 to 2 to 3 then 1 again. "Prev Display" has the reverse behavior.

System
MacBook Pro (Retina 15' Mid 2014)
OSX 10.10.1 Yosemite

Setup
Arrangement screenshot: http://grab.by/CSMu
1st display: MBP laptop
2nd display: BENQ G2320HDB
3rd display: ASUS VH242H

[bchapman]

+1

[bradymwilliams]

+1
Just switched the key bindings for now

[Bunk]

+1

[urda]

+1

I am impacted by this also. Here is my screen layout:

[codekiln]

+1

[kokarn]

-1

I think this has to do with arrangement because for me this works as expected. Going from left to right or right to left depending on what i press. Maybe a bug with how OS X enumerates displays? You don't really want to switch from display 1 to display 2, you want to switch to "the next display to the right".

https://i.imgur.com/K3LgEuT.png

[eczarny]

I'm inclined to close this since it really is hard to determine which display to consider the next display. Spectacle used to simply rely on the order of displays provided by OS X. This proved to be problematic for other reasons so I decided to try out a stable sort on the collection of displays. The hope being that despite being in an unexpected order at least each display would be in a consistent order.

[IanSaunders]

Just to add some noise, could you allow self-definition of order?

[eczarny]

That could simplify things. Just need to think it through a bit more.

[apryce]

A workaround if you have 2 or 3 screens is just to change the config for "next" and "previous". By default right is next and left is previous, but there's no reason you can't swap them. :)

[TheStalwart]

When having 2-3 screens, this is something, i believe, you can get used to. I have 5, and "Next Display" is pretty much useless for me.

Could there be a way to manually define order of the displays, if guessing is hard to implement?

[william00179]

+1

[dbkaplun]

I can confirm this is still a bug for me on 3 displays. Pressing the shortcut for Next Display moves the current window to the previous display and vice-versa.

[joshkremer]

I can confirm this is a bug for me as well.

[ghost]

I confirm this is an issue for me as well and I fixed it by putting the menu bar on the middle screen.
My arrangement from left to right is,

Mac | Display 1 | Display 2.

The bug was occurring when the menu bar was on the Mac (left-most screen).

Yesterday, my set up was (L to R):

Display 1 | Mac | Display 2

..._but_ the menu bar was on the middle display (Mac).

I know this may not help those that are using more than 3 displays (machine + 2 externals) but hopefully it'll help those with the same setup.

This is a picture of my solution:

It was breaking when it was like this:

[juanmendes]

That's awesome, I can confirm that moving the menu to the middle fixes my
setup (also 3 monitors).

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:25 PM, ja-ns [email protected] wrote:

I confirm this is an issue for me as well and I fixed it by putting the
menu bar on the middle screen.
My arrangement from left to right is,

Mac | Display 1 | Display 2.

The bug was occurring when the menu bar was on the Mac (left-most screen).

Yesterday, my set up was (L to R):

Display 1 | Mac | Display 2

..._but_ the menu bar was on the middle display (Mac).

I know this may not help those that are using more than 3 displays
(machine + 2 externals) but hopefully it'll help those with the same setup.

This is a picture of my solution:
[image: image]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/20581786/18564139/e3b05d74-7b4f-11e6-94d8-222f383d0673.png

It was breaking when it was like this:
[image: image]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/20581786/18564210/289b3562-7b50-11e6-8272-804253af0459.png

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[joshkremer]

I can also confirm that this problem was resolved by moving the "bar" to the middle monitor.

[eczarny]

Closing this out since there is a relatively simple workaround. I likely won't dedicate more time to addressing this issue.

[TheStalwart]

What @joshkremer suggests only works for 3 monitor setups. I have menubar on the middle of my 5 screens, and next/previous action doesn't work as expected

[creativecag]

+1. This is still a bug for those of us with more than 3 displays. Manual reordering or a better solution is still needed. Thanks!

[seanmcmills]

+1

[seanmcmills]

In Spectacles preferences, I swapped the Next Display and Previous Display hotkeys, as these are all I use. This should work for 3+ monitors as well.

[jmsgwd]

Moving the menu bar is not a good workaround for changing display order since it has other side-effects, like changing where the Dock is displayed, changing where windows open when applications start up, changing where new document windows appear, and changing where dialog boxes appear.

The primary purpose of the menu bar selector is to specify the "primary" display where all those things happen. It is not to change the display ordering.

As it happens, my middle display is in portrait and I don't want it to be my primary display - my Dock icons would become too small and my application windows would open too narrow by default. I want my primary display to be my right-hand display, which is in landscape.

[chris-jansson]

^ Agreed, that is not a good workaround. I don't want to change my primary display, I just want to change the ordering of monitors that Spectacle uses from left to right