• Display Menu For Mac

    Display Menu For Mac

    Since I tried to connect a second monitor to my iMac the display icon will disappear and reappear in the Menu bar apparently at random. The option to tick 'Show display icon in Menu bar' is no longer available, and has been replace with ' Show mirroring options in the Menu bar when available'. Is there a way to restore the original options, and either have the icon permanently present or absent from the menu bar? Second monitor didn't work. It is an OLD 12 inch flat screen connected with a VGA to Thunderbolt adaptor. Maybe needs a driver to work? Any help appreciated.

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    Late 2015 iMac 5K. 4Ghz i7, 8Gb RAM, OSX 10.11.3. JamieFarqy wrote: Since I tried to connect a second monitor to my iMac the display icon will disappear and reappear in the Menu bar apparently at random. The option to tick 'Show display icon in Menu bar' is no longer available, and has been replace with ' Show mirroring options in the Menu bar when available'.

    Is there a way to restore the original options, and either have the icon permanently present or absent from the menu bar? Not unless you install a third-party application, like Display Menu. Second monitor didn't work. It is an OLD 12 inch flat screen connected with a VGA to Thunderbolt adaptor. Maybe needs a driver to work?

    Any help appreciated. Late 2015 iMac 5K. 4Ghz i7, 8Gb RAM, OSX 10.11.3 First, make sure that your system is 'seeing' the external display. Hold down the option key, go to the Apple menu and choose System Information. Then click Graphics/Displays. Does the external monitor appear there, together with the internal one? If it does not, then maybe there is a cable problem.

    If it does appear, and yet it shows no image, maybe your mac is outputting at a resolution or refresh rate that the old display does not support. Open System Preferences/Displays. Hold down the option key and then click on 'Detect Displays'.

    If your mac is detecting the display, you may be able to change the resolution to something that your display can work with. JamieFarqy wrote: Since I tried to connect a second monitor to my iMac the display icon will disappear and reappear in the Menu bar apparently at random. The option to tick 'Show display icon in Menu bar' is no longer available, and has been replace with ' Show mirroring options in the Menu bar when available'. Is there a way to restore the original options, and either have the icon permanently present or absent from the menu bar? Not unless you install a third-party application, like Display Menu. Second monitor didn't work. It is an OLD 12 inch flat screen connected with a VGA to Thunderbolt adaptor.

    Maybe needs a driver to work? Any help appreciated. Late 2015 iMac 5K. 4Ghz i7, 8Gb RAM, OSX 10.11.3 First, make sure that your system is 'seeing' the external display. Hold down the option key, go to the Apple menu and choose System Information.

    Then click Graphics/Displays. Does the external monitor appear there, together with the internal one?

    If it does not, then maybe there is a cable problem. If it does appear, and yet it shows no image, maybe your mac is outputting at a resolution or refresh rate that the old display does not support. Open System Preferences/Displays.

    Hold down the option key and then click on 'Detect Displays'. If your mac is detecting the display, you may be able to change the resolution to something that your display can work with. Re the Display icon not showing up consistently: I have this problem in a 2013 Macbook Air with El Capitan. I will search the Macbook support areas on this (and correct if I find anything useful) but IMHO Apple is being short sighted about dropping this feature; clearly they are not understanding how it will make it harder for the tens of millions of us who are older and need larger type. PS -here's the current help text on Displays for my setup: ' Show displays in menu bar Displays an icon in the menu bar that lets you switch between your most frequently used resolutions. Considering how many poorly designed websites don't fully respond to different monitor resolutions, forcing the user to change the display resolution just to access and 'OK' button on the bottom of the page, this is incredibly dumb on Apple's part to take away this feature.

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    Advertisement With Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Apple introduced a number of changes; some small, some big. One of those tiny changes that impacted my workflow most is the disappearance of the menu bar display menu. Before the update, ticking off a checkbox in the Mac OS X display preferences pane would introduce a nifty display icon in the menu bar at the top of your screen.

    Using that icon, you could toggle between different display resolutions with a mouse click or two. If you’re in the habit of using different external displays or beamers during your work, that’s a priceless little tool.

    That menu bar icon is now gone. In this article, we’re going to look at three different ways to easily change and manage display settings on the fly. Use The Keyboard Shortcuts The most straightforward solution would be to navigate to and through the System Preferences to the Display preferences pane.

    By selecting the ‘ scaled‘ resolution option, as opposed to ‘ best for built-in display‘, you’ll be able to select a different resolution manually. Hold the option (alt) key to show the Detect Displays button.

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    Rather than taking the long route through the System Preferences, hold the option (alt) key on your keyboard and press one of the brightness adjustment keys to open the Display preferences pane straightaway. Using the keyboard shortcut described above helps a lot to speed up your workflow, but if you’d like something more akin to the menu bar icon of old (and are not averse to installing third-party software), you should take a look at Display Menu, which is available in the App Store for free. Once installed, you’ll see a display icon in your Mac OS X menu bar. Clicking it will allow you to manually select an alternative resolution for any of the currently connected displays (all in a separate sub-menu). Adding to this, there’s a Mirror Displays option that lets you show the same content on all the connected displays, instead of extending your desktop across display borders. At the time of writing, Display Menu does not support the two small display modes of the retina MacBook pro. If you’re using a computer with retina display, check out QuickRes below.

    1-16 of 318 results for 'external graphics card for mac' Tripp Lite USB 2.0 to VGA Dual/Multi-Monitor External Video Graphics Card Adapter, 128 MB SDRAM, 1080p (U244-001-VGA-R) by Tripp Lite. Your Thunderbolt 3-equipped Mac running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later can access additional graphics performance by connecting to an external graphics processor (also known as an eGPU). An eGPU can give your Mac additional graphics performance for professional apps, 3D gaming, VR content creation, and more. External graphics card for macbook pro 2010.

    QuickRes is another application aimed at adding display resolution options to your Mac’s menu bar. Part of the functionality overlaps with Display Menu (discussed above). That is, QuickRes also lets you select a screen resolution on the fly by right-clicking the display icon. However, you can also choose anything from two to eight preferred display resolutions in the application preferences. Left clicking the display icon then toggles through these presets in order while showing a notification of the new resolution on your computer screen. Specifying a keyboard shortcut (or using the default option+cmd+R) gives you another way of running through your resolution presets.

    Display Menu For Mac

    How often do you use external displays and custom screen resolutions in your workflow? What’s your approach?

    Let us know in the comments section below the article! And if you want to learn more tips and tricks, don’t forget to check out our guide!

    Display Menu For Mac