drag the white menu bar from the macbook display to the external monitor ( reference with screenshots).go to System Preferences -> Displays -> Arrangement.
I'm using a MacBook Pro running El Capitan.Īdvantages of this method over the terminal commands: This is a combination of a few of the other posts/comments here into one place. PS: I forgot to mention before that all of this was done on my 15 inch MacBook Pro, running Lion Now, all I had to do was write a similar shell script to call resizer.scpt and put that into ControlPlane and I was all set to be lazy all over again! Tell theProcess to tell window 1 to click button theButton Repeat with theProcess in (processes where bundle identifier is bid) If (name of buttonApp as string) is appName then
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So, with the help of the nice folks over at Stack Overflow, I was able to come up with this AppleScript (called resizer.scpt) to automagically resize all windows of (almost) all apps (the caveat is that some applications don't use the correct UI framework hooks, so it's quite difficult to resize them): The solution to this would be to resize the windows, but that's highly inefficient when you use a ton of apps and windows like I do also, me being as lazy as I am, didn't like that solution. Since I plug many different monitors into my macbook, I noticed that when one with a different aspect ratio is plugged in, my windows hang off the edge of the screen. Tell application "System Preferences" to quit If title of theWindow as string is "Color LCD" then KillBrightness.scpt tell application "System Preferences" to set current pane to pane "Displays" So all I had to do was write an applescript (called killBrightness.scpt) to kill the brightness on the macbook's screen and a shell script to call killBrightness.scpt and call this shell script in the required context.
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I found this free app called Control Plane which let's me set "contexts" based on whether certain devices (monitors, hard drives, etc) are plugged in, whether certain wi-fi networks are in range, etc and based on these contexts, run certain shell scripts. So I wondered if there was a way to automate the process. But being the lazy guy that I am, I hated having to manually adjust the brightness every time I un/plugged an external monitor. This required that I kill the brightness on the macbook's screen. Soon after doing this, I realized that it was very distracting to have the macbook's lit screen off in the corner of my eye. I ran into the same problem a while ago, and here's what I did:įirst, I mirrored the displays, as has already been suggested.
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