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Setting Mirror Display for your Mac
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If you're connected to two or more displays, you can mirror your main display on the second display. Owning a MacBook, you will see your F7 key being embedded with icon showing two stacking blocks, that's the shortcut to activate mirror display.
Apart of that, you can also slowly set your Mac to mirror display via Display Preference Panes:
- Open Apple ▸ System Preferences..
- Select Displays with its big blue screen icon
- Go under Arrangement section
- Check the Mirror Displays checkbox
If you've more than two displays, enabling this feature will make all your displays showing the same image as your main display. Let's say it's not what you want; You want to mirror your main display only on your 2nd display and left the 3rd display intact. It's quite simple:
- Still on Display Preferences Pane under Arrangement
- Option Grab a display and drop it to another display, let's say it's your 2nd display. And you will get your 2nd display as the mirror displays while other displays are still in the form of extended displays
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6 Comments
wolfgang Gilliar
like this - will need to educate myself more - how to make the entire two-monitor system work for me (display1=Powerbook, display 2=23inch display). I still have trouble with say keeping PB (1) as is and extend to (2) - how would I transfer a document (say .doc) to (2) and work on it in "peace" until I am finished with it? So I am a bit floundering quite honestly but I am sure with time will become more fluent! thanks!
Mozi
If by change the mirror setting dont work and you cant see the screen on both monitors then what is the way to uncheck the mirror display? I had the same problem and I tried to find the solution on internet but none appeared. Then I tried hit and trial on the blurred monitor by guessing the position of the checkbox and after quite a time was able to uncheck. Is there a proper solution to this?
Ashley
okay so i tried to connect my powerbook g4 to my imac and it says to click on arrangements...there is no option for arrangements in my displays preferences. I have my computers connected by a firewire. Should I be using a usb or can anyone tell me how to reveal arrangement in displays? it just says that I do not have more than one display and therefore arrangement is hidden? how do I reverse this?
SERP
yo need to have the extra monitor cord connected to the mac book for the arrangement option to be in the display screen
robert
whats and extra monitor cord? My macbook only has one monitor option. There's not an arrangements option
Alistair
Thank you so much! I can return to sanity. I could figure out how to mirror one display and not the other. You are a life saver, :-)
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