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Except when you have more than one external monitors and MacOS decides to rearrange them arbitrarily after reconnecting them.
by crististm 7y ago
Except when you have more than one external monitors and MacOS decides to rearrange them arbitrarily after reconnecting them.
- mjlee 7y agoI've found I got this to work reliably when I connected the same monitor to the same port every time. I'm not sure how well other OSes handle this though.
- jsjohnst 7y ago> MacOS decides to rearrange them arbitrarily after reconnecting them Not had that problem personally in at least 3 MacOS major releases. What version of MacOS are you using?
- my123 7y agoA lot of monitors, especially cheaper ones, don't have the serial number fields populated in the EDID, so that the OS can't distinguish between them.
- jsjohnst 7y agoI encounter a bunch of cheap monitors, still not had that issue recently. But that doesn’t disprove your point, just my own personal experience.
- crististm 7y agoHigh Sierra 10.13.6
- sgjohnson 7y agoHasn't happened to me. I'm running 3 external monitors when my MacBook is docked at home, 2 when I'm at the office. Not once the order was not correct when reconnecting.
- jen20 7y agoI'll second this. I work between home and two different offices, each with it's own monitor configuration. The offices each have the same model of monitor, but I configure them to be on different sides of the laptop itself. This has worked flawlessly for years, including with Catalina.
- theshrike79 7y agoMy MacBook even remembers the meeting room projector on a client I visit like 4 times a year and sets everything like it was before.