Comment by DanielHB

10 months ago

I was having a similar problem due to company managed profile. IT forced lock-computer and turn off screens on 2 minutes of inactivity. MacOS atrocious window management completely fumbles to restore window positions when external monitors are connected.

Meaning _every_ _single_ _time_ I step out of my workstation all my windows would reset back to my laptop screen instead of my external monitor.

My solution? Install 3rd party tool to prevent my computer from locking automatically. Congrats IT you played yourself.

Like I get the lock-computer settings, but why also turn off the screen? It annoyed me enough I opened an IT support, but like always IT people don't care about the workers worflow.

They also didn't let me change my wallpaper forcing me to use company-brand wallpaper. That is just petty.

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markus_zhang  10 months ago

I have a similar issue, but it is about key stroke lagging when entering the password if there are external monitors connected. Eventually I installed caffeine and problem solved :)

  • DanielHB  10 months ago

    Yes I used Caffeine as well...

    So IT not only reduced the security (because I couldn't use a sane setting like 15 minutes of inactivity), but also had 3rd party software running in my user account...