Hi James,

On a MBP, hitting the F7 key toggles between mirrored and extended mode. But I 
don’t think this would work on a desktop machine.

Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
On 07/02/2011, at 10:15 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> 
> hello mac users
> my g4 shows signs of ageing, the screen went blank during copy for backup,
> the backlight still works but no desktop & icons, which points to a hardware 
> failure
> i connected an external display, which show the desktop pic & some icons i 
> was able to shift to the "expanded" screen, i assume the display pref are set 
> to  'expand to the right'
> is there a key sequence that forces the display preferences into mirror mode, 
> in that way i would be able to use the g4 untill repair/repacement 
> 
> James
> email send from an eeepc w/liinux & firefox
> 
> 












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