search

Eun / DisableMonitor

Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.
1.36k stars 149 forks source link

Disabling a monitor will have side-effects on other monitor's background image #57

Open and-rea opened 8 years ago

and-rea commented 8 years ago

Hello, I have this current setup:

When I disable the iMac monitor, the wallpaper on the BenQ screen will grey out from the top left for 1920x1080 pixels (the resolution of iMac monitor) and to restore it I need to change resolution two times, the first will fix the issue, and the second to put it back to the resolution I need.

and-rea commented 8 years ago

This issue seems the same as #55 but on background images rather than screen savers.

nadesco commented 8 years ago

Possible fix; Disable the "Displays have separate Spaces" option in Mission Control settings. This resolved the overlapping wallpaper problem for me but you'll need to reboot for it to take effect.

(From Lju88's comment and flapane's confirmation in thread 10.)

lilipeipei commented 8 years ago

Disabling "Displays have separate Spaces" also will disable Split View.

Ref: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948

and-rea commented 8 years ago

As long as I don't (actually) use split view, that's a good workaround for me :) At least, until the issue has been fixed.

zacharyrs commented 7 years ago

Hey, I don't know why but I don't seem to have this issue anymore.

When I first started using this on my 'mac' (hackintosh), I faced the same problem. The above suggestion to disable separate spaces worked, but I used them so I quickly reverted that.

Since then the only change I've made is I use the command line rather than the app, with an automated script to disable the monitor.

I had to use the script as my GPU wasn't supported initially, and so I had to boot with the internal one, which left me with a phantom monitor.

Well, basically I think the command line might not face the issue? I'm not sure.

Hope someone has an idea, Zach