Home Tech Dilemma Solution!
Finally! I have found the answer! I can now run Front Row 2.0 on my secondary display forever without touching my Mac. If you’re wondering how this is done, read on. It will sound a little intimidating, but it really isn’t bad. It’ll take you about 2 minutes.
1: Download the “displays info” utility from RapidShare. Link
2: Connect secondary display and turn it on.
3: Open the Terminal in your Utilities folder. You’ll need to run a file inside the folder you just downloaded from RapidShare called “displaysInfo”. The way to do is is by typing the word “open” and then the file path to where you downloaded the file displaysInfo; for example:
open /Users/myname/Downloads/displaysInfo/displaysInfo
4: You will get a list of what seems like total gibberish, but look at the very bottom and you’ll see a line that reads d2_ID followed by a string of numbers. For example, d2_ID 69681665. Don’t make the mistake of reading the line d1_ID because this is your primary monitor.
5: Copy the number given to you and open a new Terminal window. If you have to, quit Terminal and open it again. Once you do, type in the following:
defaults write com.apple.frontrow FrontRowUsePreferredDisplayID 69681665 (replace these numbers with the numbers given to you in step 4)
You’re done!
Every time you run Front Row from now on it will open on your secondary display.
