Re: External monitor as default
Re: External monitor as default
- Subject: Re: External monitor as default
- From: Bob Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 04:06:38 -0600
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Nov06 wrote:
On 2 Aug 2008, at 19:13, Bob Smith wrote:
If you use a laptop with an external monitor occasionally you can
set the external as the main display... meaning it has the menu
bar. Each time you boot with that monitor attached, it gets the
menu bar... when it's not attached the menu bar is on the laptop
screen. Colorsync, unfortunately, isn't as smart. You set the
external display as your default for color management purposes and
it works just fine... until you reboot without the monitor
attached. At this point the default is properly set back to the
laptop's LCD. However the next time you attach the external
monitor, the laptop LCD remains the ColorSync default and most
applications are now color managing your nice external display
(which the system recognizes as the Main display with its menu bar)
with the laptop's LCD profile.
On my computer the external display remains the default display no
matter what I do (which is good). But I've noticed that applications
launched while no external monitor was attached will continue using
my MBP's monitor profile after I attached an external screen
since you revived this thread I started a while back...
I've discovered since then that all works properly if the external
display is "hot" connected. If you plug the display in while the
computer is running (or sleeping) colorsync correctly switches to the
external display as my preferred default. That sounds like what you
must have done since you're talking about applications that were
already running. My issue was (and is) that starting the computer up
from a cold boot does set the external display as the main display
(where the menu bar is) but it leaves the ColorSync default set to the
laptop LCD if that's where it was when shut down... which it would be
if you shut down with no external monitor attached. It just seems
counterintuitive to me to be required to start up (and log in and wait
for the log in to complete) and THEN connect an external display in
order for Colorsync to make the correct display choice automatically.
The Finder and most other applications have no problem realizing that
the external display should be the default when started from a cold
boot. They properly place windows and menus on the external display.
Only Colorsync is having issues with that distinction... and it causes
display issues in any application that's not color managed on both
displays (which is the vast majority of them)
I realize that this problem would go away if I just used sleep. Been
there, done that... its simply not practical in my situation.
Shutting down and restarting is much quicker and more reliable when
moving to a new location... except for this glitch.
Bob Smith
Accurate Image • Bob Smith Photographer • Waco Texas USA
http://www.accurateimage.org
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