Our Verdict
Last workweek , wereviewed QuickRes , a bill of fare - bar utility for changing the solving of — and accessing eminent resolutions on — Retina - display MacBook Pros . But even if you are n’t using a Retina display , you may have wanted something alike , because Mountain Lion ( OS X 10.8 ) is missing a commodious feature found in older versions of OS X : the Displays menu extra .
Under Lion ( OS X 10.7 ) and earlier , a unproblematic click in the bill of fare bar permit you change screen door resolutions and , if you had multiple exhibit , toggle display mirroring . Mountain Lion include an choice , in the Displays Zen of System Preferences , to enable a Mirroring card ( for AirPlay mirroring , not dual - display mirroring ) , but that menu is miss resolution options — and it appear only when an AirPlay - mirroring - capable Apple TV is available on the local meshwork .
I ’ve been accessing resolution circumstance by pressing Option and either of my keyboard ’s Brightness keys — a shortcut that unfold the Displays pane of System Preferences . But a more convenient approach can be find in Milch i m Gemüsefach ’s freeDisplay Menu(Mac App Store radio link ) .
Like the old Displays menu extra , clicking Display Menu shows you a list of all possible screen resolution , includingHiDPI modes(and , for some displays , refresh charge per unit ) ; choose one to switch to it . If you ’ve got multiple displays , you’re able to also toggle mirroring , which mean you’re able to incapacitate Mountain Lion ’s own Mirroring menu - bar option .
Oddly , despite the implication of the Display Menu app icon ( shown at the top of this recap ) , your screenland - resolution option are n’t listed in the main menu , but rather in a Cuban sandwich - fare . give that the main purpose of Display Menu is to access uncommitted concealment resolution , I ’d like to see those resolutions list instantly in the menu . Also , the initial release of Display Menu does not to the full confirm Retina displays — you’ll want to stick with QuickRes if you have a Retina Mac . Finally , it would be peachy if the developer would add a Detect Displays choice like the one in Lion ’s Displays menu supernumerary . But if you just want your screen door - resolution menu back , Display Menu drive home .
Updated 10/31/2012 , 9:00am , to slump detail about Mountain Lion ’s Mirroring carte du jour .
