[X4U] Applescript or terminal gurus: how to force video mirroring?

[Simon Forster]

The most direct way of doing this would be to edit /Library/ 
Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist. You can do this via  
AppleScript or directly in the terminal. That's the theory. The  
practise I leave to you. (Apologies. V. busy and a quick look at the  
plist on my machine gave me more grey hairs!).

HTH

Simon

On 7 Mar 2006, at 23:33, Michael Elliott wrote:

> I access my home machine from work via Chicken of the VNC plus the  
> Mac's built-in VNC server.  The speed has never been what VNC was  
> under OS 9 <sigh>.  But now that I've added a 19" monitor in  
> desktop spanning to my new 20" Core Duo iMac, the screen refresh is  
> staggeringly slow due to the overhead of the new monitor.
>
> I'm completely unfamiliar with remoting (is this what everyone  
> refers to as "SSHing") from another machine.  But I was wondering  
> if an Applescript guru would know a script to switch the remote Mac  
> back and forth from screen spanning to screen mirroring?  I could  
> launch the script remotely (or just wait for the screen to finish  
> drawing all the way in VNC...) and then launch the script, thereby  
> at least reducing the size the "screen" that VNC has to transmit  
> and refresh.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael