The System Preferences Pains and setting display resolution (OS X 10.2.2)
The System Preferences Pains and setting display resolution (OS X 10.2.2)
- Subject: The System Preferences Pains and setting display resolution (OS X 10.2.2)
- From: "Marc S.A. Glasgow" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 02:38:17 -0500
So, here I sit again, in a dark den, late at night and try to tweak my
system to do what I want it to. This time, it's the monitor resolutions
issue... My big monitor supports a wide variety of resolutions at
varying refresh rates, but I keep running into a conundrum with OS X...
If I set the "Show displays in menu bar" in the display dialog box,
even with the "Show modes recommended by the display" turned off, I
only get some of the choices (all 72 to 76 Hz refresh rates). But if I
open the displays control panel, I get access to the all the rates
(including the 85 Hz rates I prefer)...
So, somewhere there has to exist a file (probably a plist file) that
has that list that the menu bar displays control uses. I really want to
get in there and change the list to show only the resolutions supported
by the monitor (which would mean some additions from the full list
shown in the displays control panel and some deletions of existing
choices). I mean, after all, if I can have 1280x960 @ 85 Hz, why would
I ever settle for 1280x960 at 60 or 75 Hz?
Anyone know where this file/information resides? I would like to write
a script to rotate thru valid resolutions when run.
Thanks
=-= Marc Glasgow
Oh, and System Preferences appears to have a bug<?> You decide:
tell application "System Preferences"
set x to 7
set ThePains to pane x
set DisplayPane to name of ThePains
display dialog DisplayPane
get properties of pane x
get properties of ThePains
end tell
RESULTS:
tell application "System Preferences"
get pane 7
--> pane 8
get name of pane 8
--> "com.apple.preference.dock"
display dialog "com.apple.preference.dock"
--> {button returned:"OK"}
get properties of pane 7
--> {name:"com.apple.preference.displays", localized name:"Displays",
class:pane}
get properties of pane 8
--> {name:"com.apple.preference.dock", localized name:"Dock",
class:pane}
end tell
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