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univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple / display_manager

An open-source Python library which can modify your Mac's display settings manually or automatically.
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What happened to `set` and `show exact`? #6

Closed tjluoma closed 5 years ago

tjluoma commented 5 years ago

I had some scripts that were using display_manager.py show exact and display_manager.py set closest and they no longer seem to work. In fact, they no longer seem to exist at all.

ahdavies6 commented 5 years ago

@tjluoma:

Regarding show exact: please see the relevant section of our documentation here. The exact subcommand was present in the pre-release version of Display Manager a few years ago, but has since been deprecated. All future versions of Display Manager should include backwards-compatible syntax. To achieve the same result, make sure you format calls to display_manager.py as specified here.

Regarding set closest: there is no set command in Display Manager -- this is another feature that has been deprecated since v0.9.3. Res should suit your needs -- specifically, if you're using the old set closest syntax, you'll achieve the same result via $ display_manager.py res <width> <height> (e.g. $ display_manager.py res 1920 1080 for a 1920x1080 resolution), with parameters refresh, options, and scope now optional, and color depth deprecated (as all modern monitors now use consistent color depth values across all Display Modes, which is almost always 32 (for 32-bit depth)).