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01-06-2013, 09:24 AM
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How do I make secondary screen black
Hello ananders,
I'm a PC. That said...
I run media in a large church on a Mac using propresenter. When the program isn't running I see the whooshy purple background on the screens in the room. I don't want that. I would like to have the background black to give a more professional look.
How do I make the secondary screen background flat black? I can change the primary desktop but not the secondary.
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01-06-2013, 09:57 AM
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System Preferences in the place where you change the background, you should be able to set the backgrounds for each screen individually.
Maybe it's under displays.... I can't remember, it has been a long time since I had dual monitors on a Mac.
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01-06-2013, 03:21 PM
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When you are in changing the background in system preferences, it should pop up with the option on both monitors.
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01-06-2013, 03:49 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Spineshank
When you are in changing the background in system preferences, it should pop up with the option on both monitors.
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Yea, that's the thing.
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01-06-2013, 07:21 PM
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Yea, that's the thing.
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What kind of monitor? I remember I had a similar issue when I hooked up my Cinema display. But Ive had a regular monitor hooked up to my mbp and it was fine. Does it detect both displays, under displays?
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01-06-2013, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Spineshank
What kind of monitor? I remember I had a similar issue when I hooked up my Cinema display. But Ive had a regular monitor hooked up to my mbp and it was fine. Does it detect both displays, under displays?
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I'm not the OP. I was saying that what you had said sounded right.
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01-07-2013, 10:40 AM
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Hello and thank you for the responses. The primary display is a monitor at a desk and the secondary is sent to a splitter and sent to ~8 widescreen monitors under the balcony for people there and also to a large projector on a screen up high in the middle of the stage. I will try these suggestions next sunday when I'm there. I saw the 'display' option in the system preferences but didn't see anything to change background, just normal detect display and resolution etc. I will look again at the desktop background area. Maybe I was just blind and didn't see it. Thanks again!
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01-07-2013, 11:02 AM
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Look under Desktop & Screen Saver in System Preferences, if memory serves.
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01-08-2013, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by festa_freak
Hello and thank you for the responses. The primary display is a monitor at a desk and the secondary is sent to a splitter and sent to ~8 widescreen monitors under the balcony for people there and also to a large projector on a screen up high in the middle of the stage. I will try these suggestions next sunday when I'm there. I saw the 'display' option in the system preferences but didn't see anything to change background, just normal detect display and resolution etc. I will look again at the desktop background area. Maybe I was just blind and didn't see it. Thanks again!
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The splitter could be the issue.
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01-08-2013, 04:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Spineshank
The splitter could be the issue.
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it shouldn't be. If he were splitting the primary monitor image, it would be, but if I read this right, the splitter is set up as a secondary monitor.
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01-08-2013, 08:44 PM
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it shouldn't be. If he were splitting the primary monitor image, it would be, but if I read this right, the splitter is set up as a secondary monitor.
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My thought was, if its something like a USB splitter then who knows. I do not have experience running one of those things, so I wouldnt know.
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