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Easy switch between monitors

Submitted by basvdijk on August 16, 2008 to Usability

You have no control on which monitor you want to have on and which not. I use an external monitor on my MacBook Pro. When connecting the external monitor I can not disable the laptop monitor.

On a pc laptop it is possible to cycle through monitor modes like: external - laptop - clone view - extended desktop. It would be nice if MacOS has the same possibility.

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Discussion (3 comments)

abitgone wrote on September 12, 2008, 10:36am

A cursory examination of some google searches brought this up:
http://www.j4mie.org/2006/06/21/macbook-can-wor...-a-mouse-and-keyboard/

You can use your MacBook Pro with an external monitor without using the built-in screen.

And you can easily switch between monitors using the System Preferences 'Display' app.

mojo2012 wrote on February 4, 2009, 7:24pm

He doesn't want to use the system preference. He obviously just want's to use the F7/change display mode-key. But this key just swaps between clone mode and extended display.

I too would like to see the full featured F7 key.

linuxforever wrote on May 26, 2009, 9:29am

It would also be nice not only to have the three options to cycle through but also a fourth opening a system preference pane offering further configuration and detailed explanation for each pre-set.

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