change arangement of displays with applescript and other like cscreen

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hello there,

I have the following problem:

I have a G5 PowerMac running an exhibition from a Macromedia Director application.
The computer has 3 videocards, allowing for 6 porjectors to be connected.
There are six Panasonic projectors connected to the computer.
Upon restart the computer starts the differents screns up in different resolutions ( 2 are 800 x 600, two other a very strange widescreen, and 2 are the normal 1024 x 768). I have been able to solve this problem with cscreen and applescript.
But the computer also starts up in the wrong arrangement of displays. I have not been able to solve this and was hoping anybody knows a way. I have been able to swap screen 1 and 2 by moving the main display to screen 2, also cscreen and applescript.

I would really appreciate some help, does any one know the problem and maybe the solution?

Thanks!

Olga

#2

Hi Olga and welcome to MacScripter

you can change the index of displays by moving the menu bar to the specified display.
This line moves the menu bar to display 2 (which afterwards becomes display 1)

do shell script "cscreen -s 2 -p"
#3

Thanks so much Stefan,
I have tried that and it works, the only things is, I need to change the order of all six displays, so for instance: making display 5 to 2, and 1 to 5 and 2 to 4 etc.
do you know a solution?

Olga

#4

Unfortunately not, and I can’t even test anything with just 2 displays :wink:

#5

I guess I have to keep loking then, thank you for your help! If I find an answer I will post it for who ever might be curious.