I want my Macbook to be 1280x720 for a certain thing I need to do, yet all the programs that do this cost money.
How do I change my resolution on my Mac to a custom size? Ask Question Asked 7 years, 7 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 64k times 12. I want my Macbook to be 1280x720 for a certain thing I need to do, yet all the programs that do this cost money. Is there a free way to do within on Lion? There’s now a way to change the resolution on you Mac OS X VM running on ESXi. If you are running Mac OS X Yosemite (or later) on ESXi you may have noticed that the screen resolution is limited to only 1024×768 even though VMware Tools has been installed. Until recently the only workaround for. Change MacBook Screen Resolution Using System Settings OS X includes a built-in way to control screen resolution. To find it open the computer’s Settings app either from the Dock or by clicking on the Apple menu button in the upper left corner of the screen. Click on the Display tab to show the MacBook screen resolution settings.
Is there a free way to do within on Lion?
NO: SwitchResX or whatever is not free.
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I think I may have solved this problem, after a lot of experimentation, but I only have one system to test it on. http://youtu.be/6DxQm8xAy6M. The video references this website
Basically, I'm editing the plist file that sets which resolutions are allowed. No software or money required.
/System/Library/Displays/Overrides/ contains the .plist files with the resolution options OSX uses for displays. I'm running ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayPrefsKey to figure out which one is the primary display, and then adding an entry for the custom resolution. It's basically what switchresx does, but without all of the software.
This is on OSX 10.6.8, though, so I don't know if it's applicable to Lion.
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