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Re: How can you change the main monitor



At 10:51 AM +1000 6/25/06, Susan Mackay wrote:
>We have just attached an additional display to an iMac and, using the System Preferences, we can manually swap the ³main monitor² between the two displays. (We actually want to do this so that Front Row will display on the new display).
>
>I can¹t seem to find any way to swap the ³main monitor² between the displays using AppleScript, but it sounds like an obvious thing to do.
>
>How can this be done?

The unix tool "cscreen" can do this.

	http://www.pyehouse.com/lynn/cscreen.php

You'll need to run it via "do shell script" if you want to run it from AppleScript.

Jon
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