SwitchResX 4.2.4

SwitchResX is a tool designed to manage resolutions of all your monitors.

Last update 18 Jul. 2011 Licence Free to try | $19.00 OS Support Mac OS X Downloads Total: 2,316 | Last week: 2 Ranking #45 in System Utilities Publisher Stephane Madrau

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SwitchResX Publisher's Description

SwitchRes is a little utility built around a menu extra that will allow you to switch the resolution of all your monitors. SwitchRes already incorporates features from the Monitor Resolution, Monitor BitDepth, and Video Mirroring Control Strip Modules bundled with your system.

SwitchResX is a tool designed to manage resolutions of all your monitors. Here's a quick summary:

As standard features: it gives you access to most of your monitor settings within its customizable menus (in the Menu Bar or on the Finder Desktop with a Contextual Menu Plugin). SwitchResX incorporates features relative to the Monitor Resolution, Color Depth, Video Mirroring, Display Rotation, Display Overscan into one single utility.

Other useful features include saving desktop layout, ie positions of the icons on the desktop and positions of the windows of all open applications, and restore them automatically when the resolution is changed or when you plug or unplug an external monitor.

You can disable or deactivate a monitor without having to physically unplug it, allowing you to use a laptop in clamshell mode with external monitor, keyboard and mouse

Specialized features allow you to link your monitor settings with system events: Key shortcut pressed, Apple Scripts, Application launched.

Advanced features lets you enable more resolutions, or even create new resolutions for your monitor, HDTV, Plasma screen or Video Projector. This advanced feature is very powerful for users requesting complete control over their display resolution.

Yes, some other tools also have some of these features. But only SwitchResX does all that within one single utility.