I switch between two external displays at work then go home and plug the computer into a single external display.
Worst case, sometimes the layout of my windows gets messed up and I have to move them around to get back where I want them to be.
The only major issue I've had is sometimes bluetooth gets confused and it takes me a few minutes to get my track pad connected when I switch between home and work. (by a few I mean almost half an hour :( )
My Bluetooth mouse has about a 50 percent chance of being recognized when my laptop is coming out of sleep.
My workaround has been to just open the Bluetooth panel via Alfred and so long as Bluetooth has not totally shit the bed (Bluetooth has turned itself off and the Turn On button does nothing) my mouse is connected in less than 30 seconds, often times under 10.
> Worst case, sometimes the layout of my windows gets messed up and I have to move them around to get back where I want them to be.
Hyperswitch combined with SizeUp works wonders in this case (you use Hyperswitch to directly target individual windows and SizeUp to properly full-screen them).
Why Apple still doesn't have proper keyboard-only management for windows (Cmd-tab only allows to select the foreground app, not individual windows of it, and what Apple calls "fullscreen" is an abomination) is way beyond my understanding.
> Apple still doesn't have proper keyboard-only management for windows
False. Cmd-~ will switch windows within an app. Control-<Left> and Control-<Right> will move left and right between spaces (including fullscreen apps). I use these hundreds of times a day.
I do wish we had more robust features, like keyboard-based window placement/resize. As far as I can tell, third-party tools are the only way to enable that. But I find the above perfectly adequate for 90% of what I do.
Yet what I as a user want is to switch to just the next window in the stack, regardless of application. Ala, the Alt+Tab that Windows had back in Windows 95.
(I usually have multiple browser, terminal, and/or editor windows open, but I'm usually only using one of each at a time. Dragging the entire app to the foreground almost invariably means that some window that I'm not using and don't care about ends up on top of a window from a different app that I do care about. That is, me indicating that I care about a particular window of an app doesn't imply that I care about all of them, but OS X thinks it does.)
I use two external monitors on a pre-touchback mbp and disconnect multiple times a week and never have issues, other than my Windows vm getting confused about which display is high dpi.
Worst case, sometimes the layout of my windows gets messed up and I have to move them around to get back where I want them to be.
The only major issue I've had is sometimes bluetooth gets confused and it takes me a few minutes to get my track pad connected when I switch between home and work. (by a few I mean almost half an hour :( )