macman88 Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 I am running an Acer Aspire 3680 on the latest version of Leopard. While it runs perfectly fine with the laptop's LCD display, I wanted to hook it up to my monitor & full keyboard setup on my desk. When I first hooked it up, it displayed the expanded desktop mode fine. But since I was hoping of something more along the lines of cloning the display onto the external, I went into the display settings and switched it from extended to mirror. After switching it, the graphics driver would always glitch up when I would run OS X with the external monitor plugged in. When I pulled the VGA cable out though, the LCD screen on the notebook would return to normal. Since the option to reconfigure the secondary display is only available when there's an external monitor is connected, I can't switch the mode back to extended desktop (which didn't cause the graphics to glitch up.) Is there a way to delete my external monitor's setting without having to access the menu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompic823 Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 If you are still facing this issue, you can go to http://www.philmug.ph/forum/showthread.php?t=38148 for help. The solution worked for me. Btw, something the forum forgot to mention is that com.apple.windowserver.plist is located under Library\Preferences\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6daphne6 Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 If you are still facing this issue, you can go to http://www.philmug.ph/forum/showthread.php?t=38148 for help. The solution worked for me. Btw, something the forum forgot to mention is that com.apple.windowserver.plist is located under Library\Preferences\ Hi there, not sure if you would be able to read it and help me, but I am having the exact problem. The only thing is that I have an acer aspire one and I can't seem to find the com.apple.windowserver.plist. I tried going to the libraary and all i saw was something about font. Can you or anyone else help...i'm going insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Boot into safe mode, mount the drive OR Boot without the monitor connected then: rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.apple.window* rm -f /Users/"USERNAME"/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.window* rm -f /Users/"USERNAME"/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.pref* This will reset the display configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtest Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 rm -f /Library/Preferences/com.apple.window*rm -f /Users/"USERNAME"/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.window* Renaming those two did the trick for me. Have to remember never click on "mirror screens"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckyd Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 I just had the same issue, what I did was spotlight displays, then used voice over to guide me to the correct tab and button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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