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mek! Author

Level 1

23 points

monitor menu bar tool missing

Hello!

What happened to the handy monior menubar item which existed in Lion.

I have a multi monitor setup but it was even handy with a single screen if

you needed to chage resolitions.

Before there was a checkbox in the display system preferences to turn this on.

After the mountain lion upgrade this tool is gone. Now I only find a "Show mirroring options

in the menu bar when available" which only seem to handle the airplay mirroring.

Is there any way or a even better 3rd party tool which can bring the monitor menu bar item back?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 3:30 PM

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Therabyte

Level 4

1,075 points

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 3:33 PM

It's gone.

I don't know of any 3rd party solution to solve this issue.

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Nov 21, 2012 4:59 PM in response to jmmerel

that worked. thank you developer!

GeneMike

Level 1

16 points

Nov 21, 2012 5:33 PM in response to Therabyte

Therabyte wrote:

Go to

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Displays.menu

Double click it.

See the double monitor icon now?

I just moved from OS 10.4.11 to Mountain Lion and haven't figured out how to get to the System/Library nor the User/Library??

ruggiero

Level 1

134 points

Nov 22, 2012 1:31 AM in response to mek!

I finally found the answer somewhere (can't remember where). If you have access to a Lion System you can simply copy the display menu extra from that system. It works perfectly on Mountain Lion.

You can find it in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras. Simply put it into the same location in Mountain Lion overwriting the Mountain Lion version. You may want to keep a copy of the original 10.8 as well as the one from 10.7 in case a system update "fixes" it back to Mountain Lion version. Has not happened so far for me. No problems at all.

Hope this helps

Egill

Level 1

9 points

Dec 12, 2012 6:58 PM in response to MiG_Tho

Thank you so much, MiG_Tho!

Ploytec

Level 1

4 points

Dec 6, 2013 2:47 AM in response to MiG_Tho

Fantastic!!!

Thanks a lot.

Mar 7, 2016 2:01 PM in response to mek!

hello, I know this thread is a little old, but maybe someone who sees this and still has it could upload the original program? I'd really appreciate it 😀

monitor menu bar tool missing