DisplayWatcher 1.1 review

If you've got a PowerBook you use with multiple displays as well as on the road, Mac OS X does a good job of remembering the relationships between the displays, but most applications won't automatically reconfigure themselves appropriately in different contexts.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1809K Developer: Brunch Boy Design Price: $0.00 Updated: 19 May 2006

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If you've got a PowerBook you use with multiple displays as well as on the road, Mac OS X does a good job of remembering the relationships between the displays, but most applications won't automatically reconfigure themselves appropriately in different contexts.

DisplayWatcher can be configured to launch a file (most likely an AppleScript) whenever your monitor configuration switches to a recognized arrangement. This script can adjust whatever application settings you want to adapt to the new display arrangement. I use it to show or hide the dock, and switch to an appropriate DragThing workspace. It can also run a script (or open an arbitrary file) whenever you wake up from sleep, which I use to re-establish my SSH tunnels.

What's New:
This is a Universal Binary which will run natively on the new Intel Macs as well as on PowerPC machines.
If you are using Mac OS X 10.3, stick with DisplayWatcher version 1.0.2; the only difference in 1.1 is native compatibility with Intel processors.

Requirements:
A system you use with different displays, or which you'd like to have run a script whenever it wakes up.