Ignoring external monitors
Ignoring external monitors
- Subject: Ignoring external monitors
- From: Angela Brett <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:59:16 +1200
Hi,
I don't know if this can be done with Cocoa, or some other kind of
little plist hack, or something in the Displays prefpane I'm not
seeing... or perhaps it can't be done at all without some seriously
low-level stuff. I have no idea - hopefully this post is not off
topic. But what I'd like to do is have a way of making my Mac ignore
external monitors/TVs, preferably to have a way of making it ignore
or not ignore them at will.
This may sound like a strange thing to want to do, but I have an
iBook with AV-out which I hardly ever plug into an actual TV, and it
has an annoying tendency to think that my earphones are a TV. This
means that when I plug my earphones in to listen to music, most of
the time it takes about ten seconds of screen flashing etc to adjust
to what it thinks is a new monitor, and after that it's using the
wrong ColorSync profile. So I wonder if there's a way to make my
iBook ignore an external monitor. I know I could make it so that
it'll use the same ColorSync profile for a TV as for the internal
LCD, but that still means I have to wait a while every time I plug in
or unplug the earphones so I'd like it if it would just do nothing.
Another solution would be to get an iPod and listen to music with
that instead, but I can't afford one just yet!
--
Angela Brett email@hidden
http://acronyms.co.nz/angela
"Anyone who cannot understand mathematics is not fully human. At
best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to dress himself,
bathe, and not make messes in the house." -- Robert Heinlein
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