Re: slow shell
Re: slow shell
- Subject: Re: slow shell
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:05 -0800
On 1/5/11, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> return {word 3 of (do shell script "defaults read
>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver | grep -w Width"), word 3 of (do
>shell script "defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver | grep
>-w Height")}
>
> Pretty instant if you are only concerned with one monitor.
>
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
>
>> Why do you have a tell in there?
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Robert Poland wrote:
>>>
>>> Speaking of slow shell scripts; does anyone have a faster version of this?
>>>
>>> tell (do shell script "/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType |
>>>grep Resolution") to set {newR, newB} to {word 2 as number, word 4 as
>>>number} -- get screen size for monitor
Except the values in the plist are wrong for the monitor's screen size. It
returns UnmirroredWidth = 1920 and UnmirroredHeight = 1200; whereas Robert's
returns the actual screen size (resolution) of my 27" iMac: 2560 x 1440.
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