Toggle external screen mode on iBooks

Nov 06, '06 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: bruderfranz

By chance, I just discovered that although there's no special marker on the iBook's keyboard, it is possible to toggle between the mirror- and the screen-spanning mode with one keystroke:

  1. Install the Extended Desktop patch to use screen spanning on your external display.
  2. Press Shift-Command-F7 to toggle between screen-spanning and mirror modes.
By pressing the shortcut twice, it's also a nice way to put all your windows back on the notebook screen, in case you won't power on your connected external display. Maybe this is some new feature introduced with the MacBook that back-propagated to the older consumer notebooks. I use Mac OS X 10.4.8 on a "late G4 iBook" (Sep 2005 edition).

[robg adds: I can't test this one...]

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