Sometimes my Tibook thinks it still has an external display attached and that it should blank the main screen. Putting it to sleep and waking it up doesn’t work. Attaching another external display does, but I don’t always have one handy.
Clicking on “Detect Displays” in the Displays control panel works, but that’s hard to do in the dark. For future reference: ⌘-space [Quicksilver], dis↩ [open Displays], ⇥, right, [pause], left, ⇥, ⇥, ⇥, space.
24 October 2006
Hey Grant,
I’ve been suckered into MacLand as well and on my MBP you can just go ‘flower-brightness up’ to try to detect displays if things go wonky. ‘flower-brightness down’ will toggle mirroring on / off, and ‘option-brightness up’ will bring up the display options.
—reid
reid13 December 2006