Print at Dec 17, 2025, 4:26:52 AM

Posted by silvanschaad at May 16, 2024, 3:22:23 PM
Re: View in separate window freezes my Mac
Thanks Emmanuel for your reply.

I did some more research on second screen behaviour and I looks like this is causing the wheel of death.

Fact is that a second monitor is crucial to have because on a 14" macbook I can't work for hours and don't have enough room for details nor overview.

So considering this I and your advice, the performance on the macbook without second screen was close to before. Mostly running without any issues no matter what I was doing.

I also changed the way I wired up the second monitor. Previously mostly with an external adapter, but now also with the direct html input. I couldn't see a mayor difference though...

What brought the solution for now (still testing and observing) is changing the lead monitor within system settings. I had chosen the macbook and changed now to the second monitor which basically solves the problem.

So prior to my old setup with an older intel-based macbook this seems to be a newer setting that you can make and that might cause these problems...