hmscreens
version 0.1
Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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Use this command line tool to either get information about your screens or to change/set the main screen (the screen with the menu bar).
Usage: hmscreens
[-h] shows the help text
[-info] shows information about the connected screens
[-screenIDs] returns only the screen IDs for the connected screens
[-setMainID "Screen ID"] Screen ID of the screen that you want to make the main screen
[-othersStartingPosition "position"] left, right, top, or bottom... with -setMainID, this determines placement of other screens
Examples:
Get information about your screens
hmscreens -info
Make the screen with screen id 69670848 the main screen and position other screens around it starting on the left
hmscreens -setMainID 69670848 -othersStartingPosition left
NOTE: Global Position {0, 0} coordinate (as shown under -info) is the lower left corner of the main screen
Example usage of the tool with applescript: -- this will make your second screen the main screen -- so in a 2 screen configuration, it will toggle the main screen between your 2 screens set hms to (path to home folder as text) & "UnixBins:hmscreens" set othersPosition to "left" set screenIDs to paragraphs of (do shell script quoted form of POSIX path of hms & " -screenIDs") if (count of screenIDs) is greater than 1 then set secondScreen to item 2 of screenIDs do shell script quoted form of POSIX path of hms & " -setMainID " & secondScreen & " -othersStartingPosition " & othersPosition else tell me activate display dialog "Only one screen is attached to your computer!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note end tell end if
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