Re: External monitor as default
Re: External monitor as default
- Subject: Re: External monitor as default
- From: Nov06 <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:28:36 +0100
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. In other words most things in most
programs look like hell on that really nice external monitor.
Photoshop, which correctly handles two monitors works just fine.
Programs that don't color manage two monitors... which is most of
them... now look horrible on the external display.
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. I have to
relaunch them with the external monitor attached. Moreover, moving
windows between monitors reveals this annoying limitation that they
are only colour-managed on one of the screens (except for PS which is
smart enough).
I wonder how applications like Aperture and Lightroom can get away
with only being properly colour-managed on one screen at a time (the
default display), particularly since they boast dual-screen support?
Cheers,
Markus
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