How To Leave One Monitor Usable When Watching Full Screen Videos In Vlc Player For Mac

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How To Leave One Monitor Usable When Watching Full Screen Videos In Vlc Player For Mac

When I’m coding, I love to watch the occasional X-Files or Futurama episode on my external monitor while I work. This leads to a problem when using VLC since, by default, the external monitor is blacked out while a video is full-screened.

  • 1 ea Mac OS X
  • 1 ea VLC Player

Navigate to Applications > VLC.

In the menu bar, navigate to VLC > Preferences.

Uncheck the box that says “Black screens in Fullscreen mode” and click Save.

  • 1 ea Mac OS X
  • 1 ea VLC Player